{"id":489222,"date":"2026-01-03T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:30:10","slug":"cole-hutson-makes-world-juniors-history-by-becoming-united-states-all-time-scoring-leader-for-defensemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489222\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Hutson makes World Juniors history by becoming United States\u2019 all-time scoring leader for defensemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cole Hutson<\/strong> picked up right where he left off for Team USA at the 2026 World Junior Championship.<\/p>\n

Hutson, who missed two games after taking a puck to the back of the head and needing to be stretchered off the ice<\/a>, scored the first goal for the Americans in their quarterfinal matchup with Finland on Friday night. After a scoreless first period, Hutson broke the deadlock on the very first shift of the second frame.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old blueliner joined a rush up the ice and received a feed from forward Kamil Bednarik near the top of the left circle. Hutson quickly released a wicked wrister that clanged off the post and beat netminder Petteri Rimpinen.<\/p>\n

After the Finns tied the game at one, Hutson was again a significant factor in putting the Americans back in front. With Team USA on a power play, Hutson received the puck at the point and skated it below the circles in the offensive zone. Instead of peeling around the net, he laid a perfect sauce pass on the tape of Boston University teammate Cole Eiserman.<\/p>\n

Eiserman pumped home a one-time blast to put the team up 2-1 with 9:45 remaining in the second period. The goal was Eiserman\u2019s second of the tournament, both set up by Hutson.<\/p>\n

History was made on the two plays as Hutson tied and then passed Erik Johnson (14) for Team USA\u2019s all-time defense scoring lead at the tournament with 15 points (4g, 11a). The apple on Eiserman\u2019s goal also allowed Hutson to pass Ryan Suter (10) for the career assists record.<\/p>\n

Huston\u2019s older brother, star Montreal Canadiens defenseman Lane Hutson, had 10 points (1g, 9a) in 14 games at his two tournaments for Team USA.<\/p>\n

Team USA\u2019s all-time defense scoring leaders at World Juniors<\/p>\n\nPlayer
\nGames
\nGoals
\nAssists
\nPoints
\n<\/tr>\n\nCole Hutson<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nErik Johnson<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRyan Suter<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nTim Thomas<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLuke Hughes<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nZeev Buium<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJacob Trouba<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nZach Werenski<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nTom Pederson<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRyan Ufko<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLane Hutson<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hutson\u2019s tremendous return comes after a frightening injury that looked like it could have ended Hutson\u2019s tournament. Hutson, who was briefly hospitalized, was in a very reflective mood as he prepared for Friday\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, pretty tough week for me,\u201d Hutson told NHL Network\u2019s Jon Morosi pregame<\/a>. \u201cA lot of emotions, but could be my last time ever wearing a USA jersey. Playing with my best friends, and it\u2019s lose or go home, so it\u2019s going to be a big one.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I want to thank] honestly everybody who reached out,\u201d he added. \u201cAll the USA Hockey staff, Washington Capitals, Boston University. Literally, countless messages from people all over the world, and can\u2019t thank them enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hutson now has four points (1g, 3a) in three games at this year\u2019s tournament. If Team USA can defeat Finland, they\u2019ll play again in the semifinals on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cole Hutson picked up right where he left off for Team USA at the 2026 World Junior Championship.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-489222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830706916862210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}