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SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST Johnny Gaudreau, above, added to his impressive championship resume with a gold medal at the World Juniors. U.S. Hosts World Junior Championship 2005 Grand Forks, N.D., & Thief River Falls, Minn. 2011 Buffalo, N.Y. 1996 Boston 1982 Minneapolis 1989 Anchorage MORE 18 2018 Location Yet To Be Determined + See pages 20-23 for EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL BONUS COVERAGE from the 2013 World Junior Championship. FEBRUARY. 2013 USAHOCKEYMAGAZINE.COM a knack for finding the back of the net, and Connor Murphy shifted over to join Reilly. The move freed up Reilly and Jones to be more offensive and helped lead to a burst of offense from the defensive core. Housley also sent out the high energy "Grind Line" of Bardreau, Blake Pietila and Ryan Hartman for important shifts. "It might be a mindset that we have to continue to do things the way we've been doing them and improve the areas we need to improve on and eventually it's going to work," Housley said. "It didn't work in those two games but we were getting chances. Eventually we broke out." That's an understatement as evidenced by the glut of goals that helped pave the way to the gold-medal game against Sweden. Gaudreau, a 5-foot-9 puck wizard from Boston College, went from zero goals entering the Slovakia game to seven after beating Canada in the semifinals. He scored two goals against Slovakia, three against the Czech Republic and two more against Canada. He finished with seven goals, two assists and was tied with two others for the team lead in points with nine. "Throughout the whole tournament even with a couple losses the coaches told us to follow the system. Just to play our style of hockey and it became better and better," said Gaudreau, who is the only player to win a USHL, NCAA and World Junior title. "The first couple games it took a little bit PHOTOS PROVIDED BY Images on Ice