The 2025 World Junior Championship ended thrillingly on Sunday night with Team USA defeating Team Finland in overtime in the Gold Medal game. The entire tournament, as always, didn’t disappoint and all of New Jersey’s high school hockey alums fared well.

Ten players from three of the conference’s schools — six from Boston College, three from Boston University, and one from Providence — were part of the 25-man roster.

Gaudreau, who was killed in August along with brother by an alleged drunk driver, was honored by one of his former teams after he helped inspire their gold-medal run.

The United States and Finland will meet in the World Junior Hockey Championship final after earning hard-fought semifinal victories on Saturday in

Boston University’s Cole Eiserman broke a second-period tie and the defending champion United States beat Czechia 4-1 on Saturday night to advance to the world junior hockey championship game

Benjamin Rautiainen scored on a power play at 9:22 of overtime to give Finland a 4-3 victory over Sweden in the world junior hockey semifinals Saturday. Rautiainen beat goalie Melker Thelin from a sharp angle to the right of the net on a 4-on-3 man advantage with Tom Willander in the penalty box for holding.

Team USA has won back-to-back World Juniors championships for the first time thanks to overtime heroics from Teddy Stiga. The Boston College forward

Eduard Sale scored in the 14th round of a shootout to give Czechia a 3-2 victory over Sweden on Sunday in the third-place game at the world junior hockey championship. The Czech captain beat Marcus Gidlof on his fifth attempt — and 28th between the teams — with a move to the backhand.

Teddy Stiga’s OT goal means the U.S. will be defending back-to-back titles when the tournament is played in the Twin Cities in 2026.