Six members of the Boston University men's ice hockey team led Team USA to the gold medal at the 2017 World Junior Championship in Montreal and Toronto following thrilling shooting victories over Russia and Canada in the medal round.

A record seven Terriers competed this years World Juniors, marking the highest representation from any North American university or junior team in a given year in the 41-year history of the tournament.

Four freshmen (Kieffer Bellows, Patrick Harper, Clayton Keller, Jake Oettinger) and two sophomores (Jordan Greenway, Charlie McAvoy) earned gold medals with Team USA while freshman defenseman Dante Fabbro of Team Canada claimed a silver after the American squad won the championship, 5-4, in a game that was decided by a shootout. 

The seven BU players combined for 30 points (11g, 19a) and Keller led the U.S. squad with 11 points on three goals and eight assists.

Keller and McAvoy were named to the All-Tournament Team, Keller and Greenway were both selected in Team USA's Top 3 Players of the tournament and Bellows scored two goals in the gold-medal game.

BU tied the record set by Minnesota in 1979 for most players on a U.S. World Junior team with six. More recently, the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League had six players across three countries at the 2010 World Junior tournament.

McAvoy, a defenseman who was an assistant captain for Team USA, was named the U.S. Player of the Game in the gold-medal match. He made his second consecutive World Junior appearance and was the 11th person to make back-to-back U.S. WJC rosters while playing for the Terriers. 

Fabbro was just the third Terrier to play for Canada at World Juniors. The other two -  Adrian Aucoin in 1993 and Brandon Hickey in 2016 - were also defensemen. Oettinger was the third BU goaltender to ever make a World Junior team, joining Rick DiPietro and Cleon Daskalakis.