- Team USA beat Canada 7-2 to close the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase in Windsor
- Ethan Wyttenbach scored twice and Wyatt Cullen finished with three points
- Read below for the full scoring rundown and what Windsor means for the 2027 World Juniors
Team USA saved its best hockey for the last day in Windsor.
The Americans closed the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase with a 7-2 win over Canada on Saturday at WFCU Centre, scoring six unanswered goals after trailing in the second period.
Ethan Wyttenbach did the heavy lifting. The Calgary Flames prospect scored twice in a wild second period and finished the week as the most dangerous forward in the building.
Wyatt Cullen had a goal and two assists and took U.S. player of the game honors. Mikey Berchild picked up three helpers.
Neither side scored in the first, mostly because Ryder Fetterolf would not let Canada in. The Carolina Hurricanes goalie prospect stopped four shots in the final minute of a penalty kill, including a breakaway chance, then slid across to deny a Braeden Cootes one-timer with 6:35 left.
Sammy Nelson broke through 1:32 into the second, stripping the puck in his own zone and burying the shorthanded breakaway.
Utah Mammoth prospect Ethan Belchetz answered at 3:58 off an American giveaway, and Dima Zhilkin deflected home a 2-1 Canadian lead at 7:27.
Take a look at Belchetz getting Canada on the board in front of his Windsor home crowd:
That lead lasted 26 seconds. Wyttenbach tucked in a cross-ice feed from Cullen to tie it, then scored again on the power play at 13:22 off a Berchild pass.
Sean Barnhill made it 4-2 with a wrister from the right hashmarks with 2:49 left in the frame. Brooks Rogowski buried a 2-on-1 chance with 39 seconds to go.
Cullen and Blake Fiddler added third-period goals to finish it off. Fetterolf ended the night with 34 saves, and Canada went 0-for-7 on the power play despite outshooting the U.S. 36-24.
Steven Ellis of Daily Faceoff watched all seven days in Windsor and put Wyttenbach above everyone else who skated there.
“Tired of seeing Wyttenbach in the headline? Well, sorry, but he was easily the best player in the tournament.”
Windsor served as an evaluation camp for the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden ahead of the 2027 IIHF World Junior Championship, which runs Dec. 26 through Jan. 5 in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta.
Sweden walked away with the best week of the four. The Swedes won three straight to close the event, including a 5-2 handling of Finland on Saturday behind goals from Viktor Klingsell, Alexander Command, Filip Ekberg, Torkel Jennersjo and Isac Nilsson.
Canada gets the rematch that actually counts in Edmonton in December.
