ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell males’s hockey captain and junior ahead Ryan Walsh has been added to the US Collegiate Selects roster for the upcoming 2025 Spengler Cup, it was introduced Thursday morning (Nov. 6).
Walsh will take part within the prestigious event, which is able to happen Dec. 26-31 in Davos, Switzerland. This yr marks a historic milestone as a choose staff representing school hockey will compete within the 102-year-old event for the primary time. Solely two U.S.-based school applications — Minnesota (1981) and North Dakota (1982) — have beforehand participated within the occasion.
By means of the Huge Purple’s first two video games of the season, Walsh has two assists, each approaching Cornell’s power-play objectives scored in its 3-1 victory over No. 13 UMass final Saturday on the Mullins Middle in Amherst, Mass.
The Rochester, N.Y., native has compiled 55 factors (29 objectives, 26 assists) in 73 profession video games throughout his two-plus collegiate seasons for the Huge Purple. He has gained 53.8 p.c of the faceoffs he has taken (688-of-1279) and recorded seven game-winning objectives, which is tied for ninth amongst energetic Division I gamers.
Walsh entered this season with 29 profession objectives, together with 17 as a sophomore final yr — essentially the most by a Huge Purple participant since Joe Devin ’11 additionally had 17 in 2010-11, and essentially the most objectives by a sophomore since Matt Moulson netted 18 in 2003-04.
Amongst energetic Division I gamers, Walsh’s 29 objectives for the reason that begin of the 2023-24 season are tied for twentieth general and rank 14th for gamers by way of their junior yr.
The Spengler Cup is an invitational-based event that includes six groups composed of membership and nationwide groups from Europe and North America. The U.S. Collegiate Selects staff will comprise 25 student-athletes from throughout Division I hockey, representing all six conferences (Atlantic Hockey, Huge East, CCHA, ECAC Hockey, Hockey East, and NCHC) and Division I unbiased applications.
Penn State’s Man Gadowsky will function head coach, with Niagara head coach Jason Lammers and New Hampshire head coach Mike Souza as assistant coaches.
Motion for the U.S. Collegiate Selects will start on Dec. 26 at 8:15 p.m. native time (2:15 p.m. ET), when the staff faces Group Canada within the first recreation of group play. Every staff will play a minimal of three contests and a most of 5 video games throughout the six-day occasion.
Different groups within the event embrace Swiss-based HC Davos (host) and HC Fribourg-Gottéron, Czech-based Sparta Praha, and Finnish-based IFK Helsinki.
The event will probably be broadcast to over 20 international locations, both by way of a associate or through livestream. Official particulars on how the video games could be considered in the US will probably be introduced at a later date.
For extra info on the Spengler Cup, go to www.spenglercup.ch/en.
2025 U.S. COLLEGIATE SELECTS ROSTER
As of 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 6
Forwards: Charlie Cerrato (So., Penn State), Aiden Fink (Jr., Penn State), Quinn Finley (Jr., Wisconsin), T.J. Hughes (Sr., Michigan), Cole Knuble (Jr., Notre Dame), Joey Muldowney (Jr., UConn), Jack Musa (Jr., UMass), Zam Plante (So., Minnesota Duluth), Ryan Walsh (Jr., Cornell)
Defensemen: Vinny Borgesi (Sr., Northeastern), Mac Gadowsky (Jr., Penn State), Jake Livanavage (Jr., North Dakota), Erik Pohlkamp (Jr., Denver)
Goaltenders: Adam Gajan (So., Minnesota Duluth), Alex Tracy (Sr., Minnesota State)
