Team USA defeats Czech Republic and will play Finland in the final of the World Cup 2025 hockey tournament

Team USA in the semifinals of the World Youth Championship-2025 (WYC-2025) defeated the Czech Republic with a score of 4:1. The game was held on January 4 at the Canadien Tire Center in Ottawa.

Gabe Perreault, Cole Eiserman, Ryan Leonard and Oliver Moore scored for the winners. The Czech opponents' only goal belonged to Filip Stanzl, reports "Sport-Express".

Thus, the U.S. team reached the final of the World Cup 2025, where it will play with the team of Finland. For the U.S. team it will be the third final in the last six years, "Gazeta.Ru" pointed out . In the match for third place will compete Czech Republic and Sweden.

The first three: domestic stars will play hockey in a new format

On December 19, the KHL tournament in the format "three on three" will start

Before that, in November 2024, the Continental Hockey League (KHL) announced the launch of the hockey championship in a new format 3x3. It was noted that the new hockey format may become part of the Winter Olympics program in the near future. The regular championship will last until June 2025, 312 matches will be played. In the first season of the tournament will take part eight teams from three countries - Omsk "Avangard", Kazan "Ak Bars", Magnitogorsk "Metallurg", Ufa "Salavat Yulaev", Novosibirsk "Sibir" and Chelyabinsk "Traktor", as well as Astana "Barys" and Minsk "Dynamo".