According to Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff, Red Wings prospect and Michigan State University goaltender Trey Augustine may earn the opportunity to earn 5 medals with US. national teams, which is quite the feat:
In the past two years, he’s backstopped the USA to a pair of medals in the IIHF World Junior Championship – bronze in 2023 and gold in 2024. He was adding those to the gleaming gold (2023) and silver (2022) medals he won playing in the World U18 Championship.
“For me there’s nothing better than putting on the nation’s colors and being able to represent the United States, so I always love those opportunities,” Augustine said.
He’ll be getting another one upcoming this season, as he looks to win an unprecedented third world junior medal for his country.
Were he to make that history, Augustine, still only 19, would be putting himself in select company, and in position to become the winningest performer in USA Hockey history in terms of medals earned.
Only eight American players have earned more than four medals from major international hockey events.
