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Bryan Murphy
The most wonderful time of the year is here. We’re not talking about the holiday season — we’re talking about the World Juniors.
Hockey fans, the wait is finally over. The presents have been unwrapped, the stockings have been taken down from the fireplace and the Christmas dinner has turned into leftovers. Now the focus turns to the annual international competition featuring the future stars of the NHL.
Ottawa, Canada is the site for this year’s competition, featuring 10 of the top U20 teams from around the world who are gunning for a gold medal. The United States enters the tournament as the defending gold medallists from 2024, going undefeated at last year’s World Juniors and knocking off Sweden in the gold medal game.
Competing at the tournament is mostly a mix of prospects from the 2023 and 2024 NHL Draft classes, highlighted by first-round picks Ryan Leonard (USA), Gabe Perreault (USA), Zeev Buium (USA), Sam Dickinson (Canada), Brayden Yager (Canada), Axel Sandin-Pellikka (Sweden) and Konsta Helenius (Finland).
However, there are also 2025 and 2026 draft-eligible players highlighting rosters at this year’s competition. That includes James Hagens (USA), Matthew Schaefer (Canada), Porter Martone (Canada) and Viktor Eklund (Sweden), who are all potential top-10 candidates for the 2025 draft. Gavin McKenna (Canada), the leading candidate to go first overall in 2026, will be at the tournament as well.
The Sporting News has fans covered on the latest results and standings from the 2025 World Juniors.
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* = advances to knockout stage
** = plays in relegation game
Teams will play four preliminary games in a round-robin format within their group, followed by a three-round playoff.
In the group stage, teams earn three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime win, one point for an overtime loss and no points for a regulation loss.
The top four teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals, where the matchups are determined by seeding. They will cross over between groups for these games: 1A vs. 4B, 1B vs. 4A, 2A vs. 3B and 2B vs. 3A. The teams that advance to the semifinals will be reseeded.
The winners of the semifinals will face off in the gold medal game. The losers will play for bronze.
Bryan Murphy joined The Sporting News in 2022 as the NHL/Canada content producer. Previously he worked for NBC Sports on their national news desk reporting on breaking news for the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL, in addition to covering the 2020 and 2022 Olympic Games. A graduate of Quinnipiac University, he spent time in college as a beat reporter covering the men’s ice hockey team.
