The defending champion United States overcome a 3-1 deficit to beat Finland and win back-to-back world junior hockey gold medals for the first time.

OTTAWA — Teddy Stiga is the overtime hero for the United States at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa, leading them to a 4-3 OT victory over Finland on Sunday evening at the Canadian Tire Centre. Team USA has repeated as champions for the first time in their history at the tournament.

The former Pope Francis star and current Boston College forward captained the gold-winning United States team.

The USA defeated Czechia and Finland beat Sweden in the semifinals of the world junior hockey championship. Highlights from Saturday's action.

BC's Stiga, Ryan Leonard, Gabe Perreault, James Hagens, and Aram Minnetian combined for 14 goals and 34 points across seven games, the last avenging a group-stage loss to the Finns.

Teddy Stiga nets the winning goal in overtime as the United States tops Finland to win the world junior hockey championship for the second year in a row.

The United States won back-to-back gold medals for the first time and host Canada lost for the second year in a row in the quarterfinals.

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L ast night in Ottawa, Team USA knocked off Finland in overtime to take the gold medal at the World Junior Championship for the second year running. Teddy Stiga (a Boston College

Team USA is the winner of the 2025 World Junior Hockey championship in Ottawa, Canada, and the countdown is on for the next edition of the event. That starts in December and even organizers are taking lessons learned in Canada back to Minnesota.