Three Vancouver Giants won gold with Team Canada on Saturday at the 2025 IIHF U18 World Championship, shutting out Sweden 7-0 in the final.
Cameron Schmidt, Ryan Lin and Burke Hood all had ice time in the series, with Schmidt finishing the tournament with four points (2G-2A) and 22 shots on goal in seven games while Lin 鈥� who was one of five underagers on Canada and is eligible for next year鈥檚 tournament 鈥� recorded two points (1G-1A) and was +8 in seven games.
Hood played in pre-tournament action during his first time representing Canada internationally.
It marks the first time Canada has won U18 gold in consecutive years, and it is also the seventh year in a row for a medal for Sweden.
Canada was in control for the entirety of Saturday鈥檚 gold medal game, scoring two in the first, three in the second and two more in the third.
"We had a plan to get pucks in and to the net," said coach Cory Stillman. "We did a good job of that early, of getting pucks back to the defencemen who got shots on net. We had some big bodies that went to the net. We built some momentum and eventually created some scoring chances and capitalized."
This is the third time Schmidt has won a gold medal representing Canada, after also winning at the 2023 U17 World Hockey Challenge with Canada White (where he scored the golden goal) and at the 2024 Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
This is the second time Lin has won a gold medal representing Canada, after finishing first at the 2024 U17 World Hockey Challenge with Canada White. Lin also played for Canada at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Team USA claimed the bronze medal.
