Fabbro, Canada Claim Gold at World Juniors; USA Earns Bronze
January 5, 2018 | Men's Ice Hockey
BUFFALO - Sophomore defenseman Dante Fabbro became the ninth Boston University hockey player to claim a gold medal at the World Junior Championship following Canada's 3-1 victory over Sweden in the championship game on Friday night at KeyBank Center in Buffalo.
Team USA, with sophomores Patrick Harper and Jake Oettinger and freshman Brady Tkachuk, earned the bronze medal with a 9-3 win against the Czech Republic, giving BU four players who will be bringing medals back to campus.
Fabbro, who was on Canada's runner-up squad in 2017, becomes the first Terrier to earn both a gold and a silver at World Juniors and joins Harper, Oettinger and Charlie McAvoy as the only players to twice medal at the tournament while playing at BU. Adrian Aucoin is the only other Terrier to earn a World Junior medal for Canada, collecting gold in 1993.
Despite battling a lower-body injury that nearly kept him off the roster, Fabbro played in all seven contests and helped to contain opposing offenses to two or fewer goals in six of them.
Making his World Juniors debut, Tkachuk finished third on the U.S. squad in scoring with nine points on three goals and six assists. Harper added four points (2g, 2a) and Oettinger won both of his starts, including the bronze-medal game and a 4-3 victory over Canada during the group stage that ended up being Canada's lone loss in the tournament.
Team USA, with sophomores Patrick Harper and Jake Oettinger and freshman Brady Tkachuk, earned the bronze medal with a 9-3 win against the Czech Republic, giving BU four players who will be bringing medals back to campus.
Fabbro, who was on Canada's runner-up squad in 2017, becomes the first Terrier to earn both a gold and a silver at World Juniors and joins Harper, Oettinger and Charlie McAvoy as the only players to twice medal at the tournament while playing at BU. Adrian Aucoin is the only other Terrier to earn a World Junior medal for Canada, collecting gold in 1993.
Despite battling a lower-body injury that nearly kept him off the roster, Fabbro played in all seven contests and helped to contain opposing offenses to two or fewer goals in six of them.
Making his World Juniors debut, Tkachuk finished third on the U.S. squad in scoring with nine points on three goals and six assists. Harper added four points (2g, 2a) and Oettinger won both of his starts, including the bronze-medal game and a 4-3 victory over Canada during the group stage that ended up being Canada's lone loss in the tournament.
Freshman Kasper Kotkansalo gave the Terriers five players at the tournament as he became the first BU standout since 1994 to be on Finland's junior squad. Finland fell to the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.
Kieffer Bellows, who played at BU last season, broke Team USA's record for goals at a World Junior tournament with nine and was named one of the U.S. squad's top three players of the tournament.
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