Will Horcoff, Pittsburgh\u2019s 24th overall selection in the First Round of the 2025 NHL Draft, will represent Team USA at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship held Dec. 26-Jan. 5 at 3M Arena at Mariucci in Minneapolis and Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The University of Michigan Wolverine leads the entire nation this season with a career-high 19 goals and has 28 points through 20 games. The reigning NCA Forward of the Month began his sophomore season with a hat trick in the season-opening game and has scored six game-winning goals to help Michigan become the No. 1 ranked team in the NCAA. Over the past two seasons in Michigan, the 6-foot-5, 203-pound Horcoff has compiled 23 goals, 15 assists and 38 points in 38 collegiate games.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining the Wolverines, the Birmingham, Michigan native played two seasons with the United States National Team Development Program from 2023-25. Horcoff represented his country at the 2025 World Under-18 Championship, tallying two goals and two assists in seven games en route to the bronze medal.<\/p>\n
Horcoff and Team USA open up the tournament on Dec. 26 with a matchup against Team Germany at 6:00 PM ET. Team USA’s preliminary play also features games on Dec. 27 (6:00 PM ET vs. Switzerland), Dec. 29 (6:00 PM ET vs. Slovakia) and Dec. 31 (6:00 PM ET vs. Sweden).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Horcoff, Pittsburgh\u2019s 24th overall selection in the First Round of the 2025 NHL Draft, will represent Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}