EliteProspects’ Sean Shapiro wrote a superb profile of Red Wings prospect, Michigan State University goaltender and Team USA back-stop Trey Augustine ahead of tonight’s World Junior Championship semifinal vs. Czechia (7:30 PM on the NHL Network/TSN):
David Lassonde, USA Hockey’s national goalie coach, remembers the first time he watched Trey Augustine play goalie.
“He was playing for Honeybaked (as a 15-year-old), and just the maturity in which he approached everything, whether it was his game-day prep or practice habits,” Lassonde said. “He always dealt positively with the noise that surrounds him.”
And this weekend that noise could be deafening as Augustine and Team USA try to become the first American team, ever, to win back-to-back gold medals at the World Junior Championship.
“There’s never a moment Trey isn’t ready for,” Michigan State coach Adam Nightingale once told me. “That’s what makes him so great.”
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