tournament details

Each team will compete in four games, with points awarded for wins (3), overtime wins (2) and overtime losses (1). The first-place team will be determined based on final point standings.

TOP NHL-Eligible Talent 

Of the 112 players in the tournament, 72 are rated by NHL's Central Scouting Bureau for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.

Thirty-one players in the tournament are rated in the Top 40 of the North American or International skaters. 

Team USA has the most players on the Central Scouting list with 18. 

U18 FIVE NATIONS HISTORY

The Under-18 Five Nations and Four Nations tournaments are held twice a season. The U.S. has placed first in at least one of the two yearly events dating back to the 2007-08 season. In total, the U.S. has won the event 19 times since the U.S. began participating in 1997-1998. 

The U.S. has won both of the yearly tournaments five times (2003-04, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2016-17). 

November's five nations

In the November U18 Five Nations tournament in Finland, the U18s went 1-0-2-1 (W-OTW-OTL, L) in the tournament to tie the Czech Republic for third place. Joel Farabee (Cicero, N.Y.) and Oliver Wahlstrom (Quincy, Mass.) led Team USA in the tournament with three points (1-2-3) in their three games. 

LAST YEAR...

Last year, the U.S. National Under-18 Team won both Under-18 Five Nations tournaments.

In November 2016, the U.S. (1999 birth year) earned victories against Switzerland (7-2), the Czech Republic (5-3) and Finland (3-2) and fell to Sweden (2-1) to earn nine points, two more than any other team in the tournament to finish first. 

The U.S. clinched first place in the final game of the tournament against Finland where Scott Reedy (2015-17/University of Minnesota) scored the game-winner at the 6:16 mark of the third period and St. Cyr stopped 23 shots. With that tournament victory, the U.S. National Under-18 Team has won nine of the last ten international events held each November.

The 2016-17 U.S. National Under-18 Team followed November's performance by claiming its second international tournament victory of the season by earning 11 points and posting a 3-1-0-0 (W-OTW-L-OTL) record in Sundsvall, Sweden in February 2017. 

In the deciding game against tournament-host Sweden, Josh Norris (2015-17/University of Michigan) scored a short-handed goal with three seconds remaining in regulation and then tallied two shootout goals in a 5-4 victory at Sundsvall Energi Arena. St. Cyr tallied 25 saves in the game.