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U.S. blanks Canada to win World Junior Championship

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Alex Turcotte – Photo Courtesy of USA Hockey

The U.S. National Junior hockey team knocked off host Canada 2-0 to capture the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton, Alberta on Tuesday night.  It is the fifth gold medal for the United States in the tournament and fifth medal overall in the last six years for the Americans.

Former Wisconsin Badger forward Alex Turcotte’s first-period goal turned out to be the game winner for the U.S.  Turcotte and current Badger Cole Caufield are the 11th and 12th Badgers to win gold medals in the tournament.  Current Badger Dylan Holloway captured a silver medal with the Canadians.

Goaltender Spencer Knight made 34 saves in the shutout for the Americans.  He stopped all 15 shots he faced from the Canadians in the final period.  Trevor Zegras scored the games other goal just :32 into the second period.

Turcotte, Caufield and Holloway return to Madison and will rejoin the Badgers when they return to the ice in the second half of the Big Ten season against top ranked Minnesota at LaBahn Arena this weekend.

Wisconsin’s Holloway selected in 1st round of NHL Draft

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Dylan Holloway – Photo Courtesy of Greg Anderson / UW Athletics

Eighteen-year-old Wisconsin Badger sophomore forward Dylan Holloway was selected in the first round of the NHL Draft on Tuesday night, taken 14th overall by the Edmonton Oilers.

It was the third straight season that a UW player has been selected in the first round.

Defenseman K’Andre Miller was taken 22nd overall by the New York Rangers in 2018.  Center Alex Turcotte was selected fifth overall by the Los Angeles Kings in 2019 and right wing Cole Caufield was selected 15th overall by Montreal in 2019.

Holloway becomes the 16th Badger player picked in the first round.  That total trails only five NCAA schools:  Michigan (25), Minnesota (21), Boston College (21), Boston University (20) and North Dakota (20).

Holloway had eight goals and 17 points in 35 games for the Badgers last season.

Holloway joins his father as an NHL draft pick.  Bruce Holloway was a seventh-round selection of the Vancouver Canucks in 1981.  He played two games with the Canucks during a very brief pro career.

 

Kalynuk signs with NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks

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Wyatt Kalynuk – Photo Courtesy of UWBadgers.com

Wisconsin junior defenseman Wyatt Kalynuk is forgoing his final year of collegiate eligibility after signing a two-year entry-level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks.  The deal runs through 2021-22 with a $925,000 salary cap hit.  The Blackhawks announced the signing on Thursday.

Kalynuk served as the Badgers team captain this past season and finished his college career with 19 goals, 59 assists and 78 points in 110 games played.  He posted at least 25 points in each of his three seasons in Madison.

A first-team All-Big Ten defenseman in 2020, Kalynuk was a second-team All-Big Ten pick in 2019 after earning All-Big Ten Honorable Mention and getting to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team in 2018.

He was the team’s Spike Carlson/Chris Chelios Most Valuable Player in 2019.

Originally drafted 196th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the seventh round of the 2017 NHL Draft, Kalynuk signs with Chicago as a free agent.  He joins sophomore defenseman K’Andre Miller (New York Rangers) and freshman forward Alex Turcotte (Los Angeles) as early departures from school who signed professional contracts since the end of the 2019-20 season.

Seven Badgers have played for Chicago all-time including Rene Bourque, Adam Burish, Chris Chelios, Vic Posa, Jack Skille, Gary Suter and most recently Jake Dowell.

 

Caufield to return to Badgers for sophomore season

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Wisconsin right winger Cole Caufield informed coach Tony Granato that he’s planning to return for a second season with the Badgers.

Caufield led the team in scoring as a freshman.  He was the 15th overall pick in the 2019 NHL draft by the Montreal Canadians.  The Canadians had already recommended that the 19-year-old play another year in college.

The Badgers have already lost a pair of first-round picks to the NHL.  Freshman center Alex Turcotte and sophomore defenseman K’Andre Miller have both signed with their NHL teams following the end of the Badgers season.

Caufield is the first Badgers player to win an outright league scoring title.  He tallied 24 points in 24 Big Ten games.  Caufield finished with 19 goals overall, tied for the most nationally among freshmen.  He finished the season with 36 total points.

 

Pair of Badgers named Big Ten Hockey Stars

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Two Wisconsin hockey players were named Big Ten Conference hockey stars after the Badgers swept a two-game series against Arizona State last weekend.

Sophomore forward Roman Ahcan (Savage, Minnesota) was named the Big Ten’s number-1 star after scoring a pair of game winning goals and recorded six points in Wisconsin’s two wins over 9th ranked Arizona State.

Ahcan notched his first career hat trick and five-point game in Friday’s 7-6 victory.

Freshman forward Alex Turcotte recorded a five point weekend and was named the Big Ten’s number-three star.  Turcotte matched his career-high three points in Friday’s win, collecting two goals and an assist.

Turcotte added two more assists in Saturday’s 6-2 win.

Wisconsin’s Turcotte named Big Ten’s second star

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Wisconsin hockey freshman forward Alex Turcotte (Island Lake, IL) was named the Big Ten Conference’s Second Star after a four point weekend last weekend at Nebraska-Omaha.

Turcotte led all players in the series with four points, as the Badgers split the weekend series.  He scored the go-ahead goal in Friday’s 5-2 win, breaking a 1-1 second-period tie before adding the primary assist on Wisconsin’s fourth goal.

Turcotte then recorded both Wisconsin goals on Saturday in a 5-2 loss.

It’s the first career weekly award for Turcotte, who is tied for the team lead in scoring with fellow freshman Cole Caufield.

The Badgers are on  home ice this weekend, playing host to unbeaten Notre Dame at the Kohl Center.

 

Caufield named National Rookie of the Month

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Wisconsin freshman forward Cole Caufield is the Hockey Commissioners’ Association National (HCA) Rookie of the Month for October.

The Stevens Point, Wisconsin native finished the month with a nation’s-best eight goals, helping the Badgers to a 4-3-0 record against three preseason conference favorites and in contests against six ranked foes.

Caufield opened the month with a two-goal performance at Boston College, a three-point night at Merrimack with two goals and an assist, and a pair of goals in a victory against two-time defending NCAA champion Minnesota-Duluth.  He closed out the month with goals in back-to-back games, including a win against Clarkson on Oct. 26.

Caufield’s eight goals and 10 points for the month led the nation’s rookies.  He also shared the national lead for power-play goals by a freshman with three, tied with fellow Badger Alex Turcotte.  He was named the Big Ten Second Star of the Week following his four-goal and five-point opening weekend of the season.

The 12th ranked Badgers (4-4-0, 0-2-0 Big Ten) visits No. 20 Omaha (4-1-1, 0-0-0 NCHC) for a Friday-Saturday series this weekend.