As Team USA looks to go back-to-back for the first time at the World Juniors, they have a very important not-so-secret weapon – goalie Trey Augustine.

The World Junior Championship 2025 Gold Medal Game will follow the third-place game at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 5 at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Canada.

The best junior hockey tournament in the world begins on Dec. 26 in Ottawa, Canada as the United States looks to repeat as champions at the 2025 World Junior Championships.

The World Junior Championships 2025 are upon us, bringing together the world's best junior international squads.

The U.S. forward group is loaded with returning talent from last year’s World Junior gold-medal team team and includes a litany of new faces with a wide array of skills to help the Americans go for their first repeat gold at the World Juniors.

We got our first glimpse of Team USA’s lineup for the 2025 World Junior Championship Saturday night as they played in a pre-tournament game against Slovakia. It was the first real look at how things would potentially look when the tournament begins on Dec. 26 after the team was officially named.

The 2025 World Junior Championships are just around the corner as the ten best nations in the world put together the best junior team possible to compete for the chance at a world championship gold.

As Team USA goes for its unprecedented second consecutive gold medal, returning forward Ryan Leonard will wear the “C.” The Boston College star and Washington Capitals prospect was widely expected to be the player picked to be USA’s leader after eschewing an NHL contract in the offseason in part to be part of this team.

Team USA is going to have to get a lot out of its blue line in order to contend for the gold medal for a second straight year. This is the area of the roster that has the least amount of experience on USA’s roster with three returning players, only two of which were regulars on last year’s team.

Team USA now knows the final group it will take to Ottawa as they look to become the first American squad to go back-to-back at the World Junior Championship.

Brayden Yager will wear the “C” for Team Canada at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship. The Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick and current Winnipeg Jets prospect will return for his second go at the WJC. Also wearing letters for Canada are Nashville Predators prospect Tanner Molendyk and Colorado Avalanche draft pick Calum Ritchie, who will both serve as alternate captains.

USA’s World Junior camp opened today in Plymouth, Michigan. Team USA will only have to make four cuts from its roster, but plenty of questions remain about the U.S. squad’s roster construction.

When a roster gets picked for the World Juniors or any tournament, you don’t really get the chance to know what it’s going to truly look like until you see what the staff has in mind for how the lineup could look. Canada had its first full team practice Sunday after its final roster was named Friday night and had all 25 players on the ice once again Monday morning.

Canada has its roster for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship. Four returning players will be looking to improve on a disappointing quarterfinal finish from last year’s event as they take to home ice in Sweden. They’ll get some help from a trio of highly-regarded prospects yet to be drafted including No. 1 candidates in 2025, Matthew Schaefer and Porter Martone, and the consensus No. 1 pick for 2026, Gavin McKenna.

Max Plante, a second-round pick of the Detroit Red Rings in 2024, has been added to Team USA's preliminary roster for its forthcoming camp ahead of the World Junior Championship. With Plante's addition this week, there are 29 candidates vying for 25 spots on the final roster.