Hughes Selected for Spengler Cup

DAVOS, Switzerland — University of Michigan ice hockey ahead T.J. Hughes has been chosen to take part within the 2025 Spengler Cup, becoming a member of the United States Collegiate Select Team, it was introduced Thursday (Oct. 16) afternoon.

Hughes is faculty hockey’s lively profession scoring chief with 127 factors, together with 48 objectives whereas averaging 1.06 factors per recreation in his three seasons. The Hamilton, Ontario, native at present sits 57th in program historical past. Hughes, the captain of the Wolverines, has 5 factors by means of the primary 4 video games of the season.

The U.S. Collegiate Select Team will likely be made up of 25 student-athletes from throughout NCAA males’s ice hockey, with every convention being represented. The 2025 event would be the first time a choose workforce representing faculty hockey has ever competed within the 102-year occasion.

The competitors will run from December 26-31, with the six taking part groups. Along with the Selects, host HC Davos, Team Canada, HC Fribourg-Gotteron, Sparta Praha and IFK Helsinki will likely be collaborating within the 2025 version.

The United States Collegiate Selects will face Team Canada to open Spengler Cup play on Dec. 26. Each workforce will play a minimal of three contests and a most of 5 in the course of the six-day occasion.

Hughes is the 14th Wolverine to compete at the Spengler Cup, and the most recent since Aaron Palushaj in 2020.

For extra data, go to the Spengler Cup Website.