Teddy Stiga scored on a breakaway at 8:04 of 3-on-3 time beyond regulation to present the USA a 4-3 victory over Finland on Sunday night time on the earth junior hockey championship sport.
The Boston Faculty winger collected a ahead go from Denver’s Zeev Buium and beat goalie Petteri Rimpinen by the leg pads to finish it.
The People avenged a 4-3 time beyond regulation loss to Finland in group play, overcoming a two-goal deficit within the second interval to win their second straight title and seventh total.
Boston College teammates Brandon Svoboda and Cole Hutson scored late within the second interval to tie it. Svoboda reduce it to 3-2 with 2:22 left on a deflected shot, and Hutson fired a wrist shot from the slot previous Rimpinen with 29 seconds remaining.
Michigan State’s Trey Augustine made 20 saves.
Tuomas Uronen gave Finland a 2-1 lead with 6:57 left within the first interval, 59 seconds after Boston Faculty’s James Hagens tied it for the USA. Emil Pieniniemi made it 3-1 at 4:52 of the second.
Jesse Kiiskinen opened the scoring at 7:13.
Within the third-place sport, Eduard Sale scored within the 14th spherical of a shootout to present Czechia a 3-2 victory over Sweden on Sunday within the third-place sport on the world junior hockey championship. The Czech captain beat Marcus Gidlof on his fifth try – and twenty eighth between the groups – with a transfer to the backhand.
The 2026 event can be in Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota.
