Three players with SCSU ties will compete in the IIHF World Junior Championships – The Rink Live

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — For the primary time, the St. Cloud State males’s hockey workforce could have ties to 3 gamers competing within the IIHF World Junior Championships.

The match, which gathers the highest Beneath-20 expertise on the earth from qualifying nations, will happen Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick.

St. Cloud State defenseman Jack Peart has performed on the highest defensive pairing with Michigan’s Luke Hughes for Group USA in its two pre-tournament video games. Peart, a sophomore from Grand Rapids, Minn., was a member of Group USA within the 2022 World Junior Championships.

A second-round draft choose of the Minnesota Wild, Peart’s play has taken a step ahead this season. He’s working the Huskies’ prime power-play unit and has 13 assists, 15 factors, 20 blocked photographs, 10 penalty minutes and is a plus-10 in 18 video games. As a freshman, Peart had 15 assists, 17 factors, 24 penalty minutes, 20 blocked photographs and was a plus-3 in 32 video games.

Peart is the third SCSU participant to play for Group USA in two World Junior Championships (Mark Parrish, 1996, 1997; Ryan Poehling, 2018, 2019).

Peart will not be the lone participant with ties to St. Cloud State who will play within the match.

Ahead Martins Lavins will play for Latvia and ahead Verner Miettinen will play for Finland within the match. Lavins and Miettinen have each signed Nationwide Letters of Intent to play for the Huskies.

Lavins, a 19-year-old from Riga, Latvia, is taking part in in his second season of juniors for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the US Hockey League. Lavins has 4 objectives, 11 factors, 25 penalty minutes and is even in plus/minus in 18 video games this season. He’s averaging 16 minutes, 42 seconds per recreation, is successful 52% of his puck battles and 56% of his faceoffs for the RoughRiders. This would be the second World Junior Championships for Lavins, who’s listed at 6-foot and 185 kilos.

Miettinen, a 19-year-old from Espoo, Finland, is taking part in his first season of juniors for the Fargo Pressure within the USHL. Miettinen has seven objectives, 14 factors, 5 power-play objectives, 4 penalty minutes and is a plus-5 in 18 video games. Previous to this season, he performed three seasons for a junior workforce in Finland (Kiekko-Espoo). Miettinen is listed at 6-foot and 160 kilos, is averaging 15:52 per recreation and is successful 56% of his puck battles and 54% of his faceoffs. Miettinen is the youthful brother of

Veeti Miettinen, who is a junior forward for the Huskies

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That is the primary time that the Huskies have had ties to 3 gamers within the match in a single 12 months. The earlier most was two (1996 — Matt Cullen and Parrish, USA; 2018 — David Hrenak, Slovakia, and Poehling, USA).

A full schedule of the match might be discovered

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• 1991 — defenseman Tony Burns
• 1996 — ahead Matt Cullen
• 1996, 1997 — ahead Mark Parrish
• 2003 — goalie Bobby Goepfert
• 2006 — defenseman Casey Borer
• 2010 — goalie Mike Lee
• 2012 — defenseman Kevin Gravel
• 2016 — defenseman Will Borgen
• 2017 — defenseman Jack Ahcan
• 2018, 2019 — ahead Ryan Poehling
• 2022, 2023 — defenseman Jack Peart

• 1999 — ahead Peter Szabo (Slovakia)
• 2004 — ahead Andreas Nodl (Austria)
• 2008 — defenseman Oliver Lauridsen (Denmark)
• 2015 — defenseman Mika Ilvonen (Finland)
• 2018 — goalie David Hrenak (Slovakia)
• 2022 — ahead Martins Lavins (Latvia)
• 2023 — ahead Verner Miettinen (Finland), ahead Martins Lavins (Latvia)