Yahoo Sports Sabres World Junior Prospect Update – Day 2
The Buffalo Sabres have six prospects playing for five countries at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championships in Ottawa in action on the first day of the tournament, and the star of Day #2 was Amerks forward Anton Wahlberg.
The Sabres 2023 second-round pick went pointless in Tre Kronor’s 5-2 victory over Slovakia on Thursday but was the scoring star for Sweden with two goals, two assists and six shots on goal in just 13:27 in an 8-1 win over Kazakhstan on Friday.
Anton Wahlberg rifles one home to give Sweden a 5-0 lead right before the end of the 1st.#WorldJuniors pic.twitter.com/PS0tVHj2LY
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) December 27, 2024
Slovakia bounced back from the opening loss to Sweden with a 2-1 win over Switzerland. Sabres prospect and World Junior veteran Maxim Strbak was held pointless but led the club in ice time with 25:10.
Sabres 2024 top Konsta Helenius and Team Finland were shut out in their tournament opener by Canada, but the 18-year-old bounced back with a nice assist in a 3-1 victory over Germany.
No-look assist by Konsta Helenius to get his first point of the World Juniors. pic.twitter.com/w1rW5lGXsd
— The Sabre Report (@TheSabreReport) December 27, 2024
Germany’s Norwin Panocha was -1 and went pointless in 22:14 in the loss.
Brodie Ziemer and Adam Kleber’s Team USA did not play on Friday but will face Cinderella Latvia, who beat Canada 3-2 in a shootout on Friday.
LATVIA BEATS CANADA IN THE SHOOTOUT 😱
Eriks Mateiko scores the game winner!#WorldJuniors pic.twitter.com/oIVP2ddA89— TSN (@TSN_Sports) December 28, 2024
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