SOUTH BEND, Ind. – University of Notre Dame Dame junior forward Landon Slaggert has been named to USA Hockey’s final 23-player National Junior Team and will serve as an alternate captain at the upcoming 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship.
After being postponed last winter due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship will take place at Rogers Place on August 9-20 in Edmonton, Alberta. Team USA will compete in Group B alongside Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Canada, Czechia, Finland, Latvia and Slovakia make up Group A.
Team USA will open play against Germany on Tuesday, August 9 at 10 p.m. ET (NHL Network).
Slaggert, a South Bend, Indiana native, was on Team USA each of the past two tournaments, scoring for Team USA in the only game it was able to play in 2022 before the COVID postponement last winter and winning gold with Team USA in 2021.
Notre Dame At The World Junior Championship
- In 2021, Landon Slaggert became the first Fighting Irish player to medal at the event since 2018 when current Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Andrew Peeke helped the U.S. secure the bronze in Buffalo.
- Slaggert’s gold marked the eighth medal by a Notre Dame player at the event as he also joined Anders Bjork (bronze in 2016), Mario Lucia (gold in 2013), Kyle Palmieri (gold in 2010 and bronze in 2011), Kyle Lawson (bronze in 2007) and Ben Simon (silver in 1997).
- Slaggert is Notre Dame’s 23rd player to take part in the World Junior Championship and the seventh to appear in two tournaments.
- Previous two-time Fighting Irish participants included Palmieri (2010/11), Ian Cole (2008/09), Rob Globke (2001/02), Connor Dunlop (2000/01), Simon (1997/98) and Jack Brownschidle (1977/79).
Landon Slaggert | Junior | Forward | South Bend, Indiana
- In two seasons, Slaggert has skated in 65 career games while scoring 20 goals and adding 28 assists for 48 points.
- Last season as a sophomore, he finished fifth on the team in scoring with 26 points on 12 goals and 14 assists.
- He had three game winners and two power-play goals in 2021-22.
- Tallied first multipoint game of the season with a goal and an assist in 5-1 victory over Wisconsin (Nov. 12).
- Finished the weekend series against the Badgers with three points after adding an assist in the game two win (Nov. 12-13).
- Notched the game-winning goal in the road victory over Penn State (Jan. 7).
- Notched a goal and two assists, including one assist on the overtime game winner at Ohio State (Jan. 14).
- Tallied an assist and the overtime game winner in 3-2 overtime victory over Minnesota (Jan. 29).
- Recorded a goal and an assist in the 7-2 win over Penn State for his third multipoint game in a four-game span (Jan. 14-Feb. 4; 2-5-7).
- A 2022 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten selection, he notched the game-tying goal against North Dakota in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and also assisted on Graham Slaggert’s overtime game winner as the Irish downed the Fighting Hawks 2-1 (March 24).
- Selected in the third round, 79th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2020 NHL Draft.
- Played his first two seasons at Notre Dame with his older brother, Graham Slaggert, who signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization following his senior season in 2021-22.
- He is the son of Fighting Irish Associate Head Coach Andy Slaggert.
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