The 2025 Tournament kicks off today in Ottawa
The 2025 World Juniors Hockey Tournament kicks off on Thursday in Ottawa, Canada and a pair of Minnesota Golden Gophers will be participating in the tournament. Minnesota sophomore Oliver Moore is back for his second year in the tournament for the red white and blue and he was named one of the US’s alternate captains for the event. Joining him on the roster is Gopher freshman Brodie Ziemer who is making his debut in the tournament for the US. Both players will miss the Gophers home series against Mercyhurst next weekend.
Minnesota was hoping to have three players in the tournament, but after playing on Canada’s team a year ago, Matthew Wood was cut from the Canadian team in their training camp and will not play this season.
The Gophers will have one other member of their team as assistant coach Steve Miller is one of the assistants for the US team that is head coached by Denver head coach David Carle. This coaching staff is the same from a year ago when the US won the gold medal over a home Sweden team 6-2. Moore recorded three points with a goal and a pair of assists in last year’s tournament.
The 2025 tournament kicked off Thursday afternoon with the US team taking on Germany.
Moore and Ziemer were slated to play next to one another on the third line with UMD’s Max Plante.
First looks
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— USA Hockey (@usahockey) December 26, 2024
The rest of the schedule for Team USA is as follows:
Saturday December 28th 2:30 PM vs Latvia
Sunday December 29th 1:30 PM vs Finland
Tuesday December 31st 7 PM vs Canada
Thursday Jan 2 Quarterfinals
Sat Jan 4 Semifinals
Sunday Jan 5th Bronze/ Gold Medal Games.
All of the US games are televised on NHL network.
Don’t forget that the 2026 World Juniors’ Tournament will be right here in the Twin Cities. The 50th annual event will be held at both the Xcel Energy Center and Mariucci Arena. Full 29-game package tickets are available for sale now HERE. Individual game tickets are expected to be put on sale later in 2025.