Finley boasts 5 objectives and 9 factors via eight video games this season to share the workforce lead in factors for one of many nation’s top-10 offenses. He ranks second on the workforce in objectives after main the Badgers with 20 objectives and 40 factors final season as a 2025 Second-Team All-Big Ten decide.
The 97th Spengler Cup will embody the U.S. Collegiate Selects, Team Canada, IFK Helsinki, Sparta Prague, Fribourg-Gottéron, and HC Davos.
This marks the primary time in event historical past {that a} workforce of NCAA Division I school hockey gamers will participate within the occasion.
Each workforce will play a minimal of three video games and a most of 5 in six days, with the U.S. Collegiate Selects opening the event with a sport towards Team Canada on Dec. 26 at 1:15 p.m. CT. Team Canada will likely be made up of pros from European leagues, the AHL, and ECHL.
How to watch the event within the U.S. will likely be introduced at a later date.
The U.S. Collegiate Select workforce will likely be made up of 25 student-athletes from throughout NCAA males’s ice hockey, with every convention being represented. Players added to the workforce have been introduced on a weekly foundation.
This would be the second time an American-based choose workforce has taken half within the Spengler Cup, following a U.S. squad that received the event in 1988.
In latest historical past, former Badger defenseman Cody Goloubef received the event with Team Canada in 2018.
For extra data on the Spengler Cup, go to www.spenglercup.ch/en.