Caufield Helps Guide U.S. Under-18 Hockey
Team to Gold Medal
UW-Stevens Point men�s hockey assistant
coach Paul Caufield helped guide the United States to the gold medal at the
Under-18 World Championships this past week in Piestany, Slovakia.
Caufield was an
assistant coach on the squad that finished 5-0 during the championships. The
Greendale native is the first Division III coach ever selected to coach with
the Under-18 national team.
Caufield was joined as an assistant coach
by Notre Dame assistant Andy Slaggert. Minnesota State-Mankato head coach
Troy Jutting was the team�s head coach. Caufield, who is UW-Stevens Point�s
all-time leading scorer with 254 points during his career from 1988-92, was
in charge of running the forwards and letting the players know when certain
units should be on the ice, as well as the penalty killing units.
Madison native Erik Lampe, a member of the
Madison Capitols of the United States Hockey League, scored two goals,
including the game-winner, on Saturday as the United States rallied from a
two-goal deficit to beat Russia 3-2. On Friday, the United States edged
seven-time defending champion Canada 4-3 in overtime.
Team USA opened
the tournament on Monday with a 5-2 victory versus Sweden. Following a 3-2
win against Russia on Tuesday, the squad completed Group B play on Wednesday
by defeating host Slovakia, 5-1.
Caufield also helped select the team during
tryouts July 11-17 in St. Cloud, Minn. He was contacted about the position
in late March after helping coach USA Hockey clinics for a number of years.
Last summer, he worked with the select U-14 and U-17 teams based out of
Colorado Springs.
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