Team USA Was Ruthless 

"We love the boos," said defenceman Lane Hutson. "We want keep giving them something to boo about."

The best team won, Augustine absolutely brought it in the gold medal game. I am proud of the swedish team even though yet another silver medal hurts.

As an American hockey fan, I LOVE seeing a strong team! Love the swag too

As for a player that impressed me the most - Servac Petrovsky. We expected Sykora, Mesar or Dvorsky to be good, but Petrovsky stole the show. Gajan was also brilliant from that team. Other than that I think many sleep on Lane Hutson from team US. The kid had monstrous minutes and didn't ever look tired.

World juniors are always a blast to watch.

I've been anticipating seeing Isaac Howard in a Lightning uniform for a little while, but seeing him at the world juniors really has me salivating!

This is hockey. Keep it raw and real. Don't like the players pissing off the crowd? Then go watch a different game, simple as that. This is part of what attracted so many people to watch the sport. If you want class and politeness, go watch golf

As a Wings fan, I can't wait for Sandin Pellikka and Augustine. They both played great!

Leonard. That goal was a playoffs-quality effort. Willpower. Then blow a kiss, LOL. Loved Sweden, though - nothing but complete respect for their team and their fans.

Gabe Perreault's performance all tournament long has Rangers fans literally salivating. Dude can pass, and dude can score.

This USA team showed up every game not only expecting to win, but knowingly they would win. This is what confidence is on ice. Sweden, incredible host. Awesome fans, awesome atmosphere.

What a tournament. A shame I wasn't able to watch the games since I was in Wisconsin during the regular season, and the playoffs since it was either too early in the morning or it happened while I was working. But of course, I kept an eye out. USA was so good, and as soon as Canada lost to Czechia in the first round (which is definitely the biggest shocker, even to this day. Like, I was expecting a USA and Canada Gold Medal game), I knew this would be the year for the US, and they proved me right. Congrats to USA for winning gold! You made America proud! Even if I didn't watch the gold medal game, I am glad I got to witness USA winning gold (I will post my reaction to that game soon).

So happy the Caps picked up Leonard. Kid has grit - tons of talent of course, but grit. Call it Tkachuk-esque or whatever you like; all I know is the Caps play lights out hockey when they put grit at the center of their game and this guy could get us there in a real way for the group of young talent we’ve got now. Also, I wanna say congrats to the Swedes for creating such a fantastic hockey environment. As a fan of the sport, I’ve loved everything that’s come out of - or been done in - Sweden as far as hockey goes. Another real country full of leaders for the greatest sport in the world.

First time I cheered for USA as a canadian. LETS FKIN GOO NORTH AMERICA🇨🇦🇺🇸, sry sweden yalls almost got it. Always next year!

Isaac Howard getting the most goals was definitely a shock but the Smith-Perrault-Leonard line was insane all tourney

Future Jets Captain/ Team USA Captain Rutger McGroarty of course. What an absolute truck of a human being and already a great leader. Jets have another potential sidekick for Lowry when the GOATrty enters the show.

Your videos are beautifully put together. Thanks for making top notch work

I was pretty impressed also by Augustine

Hävelid got us to the finals but the 3-1 goal was brutal and he's out of position on the 4-2 goal as well alltough he gets screened by his own man. The US was just too opportunistic on the offense and blocked what felt like 100 shots in their own end, well deserved win

as a canadian who moved to utah for my wife and stepdaughter, I loved seeing the USA succeed after canada got the boot. great world juniors this yr ngl

Great stuff, JH.

I can't wait for Leonard to join the Caps He's gonna be a fun spark for the team in a few years

It's nice not to play 2nd fiddle to Canada for yet another year.

Personally,I think they took it to far,Sweden has beautiful people,beautiful country and they put on a amazing event,let alone team Sweden had a amazing run.I was cheering for them,so at the end of all this DO show alittle constraint towards the host fans,,it does show class. Of course celebrate,you won,anyway,

For me the player who was the best was either Axel Sandin-Pelikka or Jiří Kulich

Congratulations to USA! You deserved the win. Also Sveriges landslag, ni ska vara stolta över vad ni gjort, grymt bra jobbat även om ni ville ha guldet👏🇸🇪❤️

I played hockey all my 64 year life. Hockey needs more fights. Hip checks. It's been pussified over the decades to bad. Bring back the old big bad Bruins and Canadians rivalrioes

Sandin-pellika and Trey Augustine??? GO WINGS BABYYYYYY

as a sweed it sucks but Team usa was fast on the turns took their chances and is un amasing team !!

Came here to say how good i thought this particular vid was, stayed for the unreasonbly high intelligence in the comment section. Johhny Hawkey, you keep doin' your thing man bc we LOVE what you got goin' on

Hutson got that DAWG in him.

Howard to me looks like a 3rd line guy for TB thru next 3 years. He absolutely isn't going to supplant Kucherov, Point, Stamkos, Cirelli, Hagel and Nick Paul in TOI. Will duke it out with Essymont and Jeannot for 3W time best case.

Go USA. We're coming for the Olympics Canada.

OMG i thought the Swedes would be so less butt hurt. Maybe you should also blame the officiating as you did all game.

Team USA fan here....and I *love* the Swedes uniforms!!! (I also thought that they were getting gold after beating Canada!) Finally, I am NOT happy having the "home team" in my pool! (although, I love the Canada/USA "rivalry"...in quotes b/c Canada beats our a$$)

As a newer hockey fan, it’s interesting that this is such a big deal, and at first I thought this was pointless, but then I realized it’s basically the hockey equivalent of college football, which is my personal favorite sport to watch, sooooo…

The real final was Finland vs Czechia, game was so much more entertaining

USA was the better team. 100% right, they were never intimidated and never worried. Augustine was straight up nasty.

Too bad canada couldnt make it tho. But lets go team USA

Sweden is 10 millions. USA 340 millions.

US got no class. let's not get that confused. great team win though! those boys deserved the W.

Lenni Hämeenaho

Elias Pettersson the 2nd

ASP cannot defend his way out of a paper bad, Lekkermaki is the clear choice. Not sure if your being bad faith or what but my gosh bud.

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Ruthless? No, more like relentless.......in their attack and defense.

TeamUSA was an embarrassment the way they showboated. Celebrations are sophmoric and classless

Team USA best team in this tournament but I would bet that the celebrations would have been more subdued if they had played Team Canada. If not we would have witnessed one hell of a Donnybrook. 😂

Winning is suppose to be fun. Exactly people are so soft now and butthurt they got owned on their home ice

You win gold and bronze. You lose silver.

The Americans were better, absolutely, but gosh were they ever a bunch of cocky assholes in this tournament. No wonder everyone not American hates this team....

Canadian, proud of the boys to the South, well played.

"Win with some class" is only ever aimed at US athletes. Doesn't matter the sport. But every other nation that acts the same way is completely exempt.

Classy move by the Swedes to send out that 6’5 goon for his first shift of the game to get his ass kicked by the smallest guy on the ice.

I regret not watching the rest of the games when Canada lost but give team USA allot of credit they dominated everyone this year

hahaha, your Canadian accent speaks for itself. I was like, "is this Canadian praising the U.S.A. team before you mentioned you were Canadian. Good on you, a true hockey fan!

Really good tournament. If USA did this to Canada, I'd be pretty ticked off for a bit... but overall, I love when hockey gets this kind of spice to it. A little drama, some personality, some pride, heroes and villains... just adds another dimension to a game already packed with excitement. And when it's an international tournament that is only in the world's eye for 2 weeks, it's high stakes but it's also easy to turn it off mostly until we start ramping up into the next year's tournament.

Would love to hear your thoughts about bronze medal game, what a game, from 2-5 to 8-5! Thanks for your input, You ate great!

Players that impressed me the most? Augustine for US and Lekkerimäki for Sweden

As an American, the Swedes really really well. Their style and strategy was played to perfection, imo. I am actually surprised the US was able to match it because they normally don't play that style. US was just slightly winning the battles more, just slightly but enough for an edge. Lucky bounces didn't favor either team. It was clean skill on both sides.

As an American who just moved to sweden a few years ago I loved the idea of Sweden winning as the underdog in their home land but my heart will always be with the USA and the American Dream

You missed the best part. The US team singing the Star Spangled Banner.

Sweden is 6-2 their stomach right now 😂

Would love to hear your reaction about the 3rd place match insanity :D Is there a chance to get tthat done? :D

America, Fuck yeah 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

It’s said that “that copying is the highest form of flattery” Team USA winning is a win for North America. Team USA is built to compete vs Canada. This American team found its legs. It had everything. Great goaltending, solid Defensive corp & dynamic forwards. No shame for Swedes losing to USA & Canada over the years. We all know the Swedes are a top team every year.

I cant wait to see Mcgroarty with the Jets!!

Ah, shucks. Canada lost. Now I'll get ahead of this. I'll get ahead of this. If Canada, like every year pretty much in the world juniors, if they had their actual roster, they're going to be the favorites. I think the only player that the United States is missing is Logan Cooley. Obviously, that's an enormous impact. This U. S. Team's loaded though, without him." Canada is missing a boatload. And I mean, when it's Conor Bedard being the main one, it's like. It's kind of hard to chirp their junior team considering..." Just thought I'd post Ray whitneys thoughts here

Brindley is a freaking steal for the CBJ in the second round... He is an animal

As a Sweden, congrats to the US for a well deserved win. Felt like they were the best team in general this year. In this game they played well tactically and manage to shut us down going into their zone very well. Countless times they pushed us into going in to their zone on the left side along the boards which always fizzled out into nothing. We needed to find some way to break that up, play in the middle, take a chance with a deke into center ice, move the play to the other side, something. Also unlucky on the 2+2 high sticking penalty. Yes, a high stick, but the defenseman was pushed on his shoulder going into the situation, that probably made his motion to bat the puck out of the air exaggerated, unlucky situation which cost valuable time. Funny seeing al the juvenile celebrations, felt like that was a thing throughout many teams, but it's the World Juniors so it kind of belongs. :) Bad form by the US to start a fight at the end of the game, cmon just finish the game already, no need to be complete jerks. Appearantly many players of these two teams had faced off before in other juniors tournament, it was suggested that some bad blood had carried over from those times maybe.

An American hockey fan here. Very proud of team USA gold, but hesitate to applaud their arrogant behavior. There is an important difference between confident and arrogant. Great athletes don’t taunt. They don’t need to.

'merica!!! I have a soft spot for Sweden for being an anti-mask/Lockdown country though =)

That is how you represent your country it brought back some pride win or lose play hard no BS great job boys

I root for Canada, but I am a Jets fan. Prospects on both teams in the gold medal game today was totally cool with either win. Stoked for Rutger though the guy has an infectious attitude can't wait to see him on the Jets. Kid had like 100 people come with him from home when he got drafted, that's just the kind of dude he is.

The US Men had plenty of MOXY!!!, they were not Intimidated in the least, they thrived off of Sweeden's home crowd!!!,and never once doubted that they would be Victorious!!!!, Great Win USA!!!!, Congratulations World Champion USA!!!!

The best part of the game wasn't even shown on ESPN. The USA boys singing their hearts out to the National Anthem was the best part for me. I choked up.

Rutger mcgoarty will be great for jets what a legend

Cutter Gauthier impressed the most. Looked most NHL Ready along with Lekkerimaki

That is winning with class. And topping it off with a rousing rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

When you’re playing in the other team’s arena you’re the villains. That crowd chanting at the opponents was good clean fun. The US players were giving it back with a smile. In an odd way it’s letting the fans know that they’re doing their jobs quite well.

You can do this when you win, and they did, so there's nothing wrong

Cant wait to see frankie nazar setting up bedsy for the next decade

US beat sweden in U18 and now junior thats ruthless

Gavin Brindley surprised the most with how big a of a role he had on the team, under appreciated skill and smarts

Now this is a Hockey Team that’s proud to be representing their country and Flag.

As a Canadian I really got to give it to the Swedes and the USA they really came to play and boy did they ever.

juniors is supposed to be a fun tournament. Lets the kids celly and have a good time.

American fella here. Love it, great win boys!

Watching it live i hated the cellys because i was trying to hold onto some hope and that wasn't helping. I have no real issue with it now though, game is long over, all my hope was smashed into bits long ago

Axel Sandin Pellika a bit of a disappointment for me. Sure, scored 2 goals in the semi+quarter but did not play with the swagger I thought he’d do. He’s better in the SHL than he was in the WJC. Now injured for 2 months, I think. The one that impressed me was Otto Stenberg who quietly put up point per game numbers while playing third line minutes. From having a hard time to even score a point in the SHL to make such an impact at the WJC. Born in 2005, has to preform next year for Sweden in Ottawa. Lastly, that crowd was insane. Goosebumps all game.

I'm glad the US. gave them a taste of North American hockey. Keep your head up.

Perreault is underrated

Terrible display of sportsmanship. As an American, I'm embarrassed and totally disagree with your comment about not winning with class. When the rest of the world comments at the behavior on a world stage being inappropriate, I would side with the rest of the world.

Sabres fan here, Kulich impressed all the way. Overall a highly entertaining world jrs tournament

i really hope we see the world juniors in Boston at some point. Especially cool if we get games at the different college rinks in the area.

As a Canadian fan, I LOATHE the Americans when it comes to hockey (just hockey, I swear) but even I don't see anything wrong with the celebrations. It was nice to see hockey be fun.

The right team won. They were the best throughout. My only regret was the final period of that game. It ceased to be a good game, especially for a final. I would have loved to see Canada vs US but you have to win to get to the big show, and Canada did not.

What do you fucking mean? That was so fucking American, that is our class! God damn proud of our USA team.

OH MAMA DON'T YOU CRY... 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

lol USA gotta remember all the Canadian players we’re all good enough to play in nhl so yeh I feel sorry for you kids the hockey gods can be cruel