Cole Caufield

Medal record
Representing  United States
Ice hockey
World U-17 Hockey Challenge
	2017 Canada
World U-18 Championships
	2018 Russia
	2019 Sweden
World Junior Championships
	2021 Canada

Caufield represents the United States national team. During the 2017–18 season, he participated in several international tournaments under the age of 17, including the 2017 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, where he tallied 13 points in six games (eight goals, five assists) to win a gold medal.[11] He would also be named to the tournament All-star team, and led the competition in goals.[12] At the 2017 Four Nations Cup in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, Caufield appeared in three games, notching six goals and one assist, while the NTDP U-17 finished first.[13] In February 2018, he led the team with 10 points in four games (four goals, six assists) at the 2018 Five Nations Cup in Järvenpää, Finland, enroute to another NTDP U-17 first place finish.[11]

At the 2018 IIHF World U-18 Championship, the NTDP would settle for a silver medal after losing the final game to Finland 3–2. Caufield closed the tournament with six points in seven games.

For the 2018–19 season, Caufield would continue his stellar play internationally. In late 2018, the NTDP U-18 claimed the 2018 Five Nations Cup in Kravaře, Czech Republic, with Caufield notching seven goals and two assists in four games.[11] The NTDP U-18 finished third in the tables of the 2019 Five Nations Cup in Sochi, Russia, where Caufield registered three goals and two assists in four games.[14][11]

On April 23, 2019, Caufield scored his 10th and 11th goal for the NTDP in just four games of preliminary round at the 2019 IIHF World U18 Championship, breaking a record set by both Brett Sterling in 2002 and Phil Kessel in 2005 (nine goals).[15][16] On April 27, 2019, Caufield tied Alexander Ovechkin's single tournament goals record (14 goals from 2002) and inscribed his 18 career goals in the national record book of the tournament. The NTDP would eventually lose their semi-final matchup to Russia 3–2 in a shootout,[17] with the NTDP claiming a bronze medal in a 5–2 win over Canada to close their tournament play. Caufield was named the MVP of the championship, as well as Best Forward (Directorate Award). Finally, he led the competition in goals and was named to the tournament All-star team.[18]

Cole Caufield is a native of Mosinee, Wisconsin. His older brother, Brock, also plays for the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team.[7] Their father, Paul Caufield, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, played for the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (UWSP) from 1988–92 and remains the team's all-time leading scorer.[19][20] He returned to UWSP in 2002 to work as an assistant coach, but resigned in 2006 to assume his current position as manager of Ice Hawks Arena.[19][21] Their grandfather, Wayne Caufield, a member of the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame since 2011, played semi-professional hockey from 1963–76 for numerous teams, most notably the USHL's Milwaukee Admirals, and spent over two decades coaching youth hockey and managing hockey clinics in the Milwaukee area following his retirement.[22][23] He died on July 13, 2018.[23]

USA Hockey National Team Development Program:

• Most goals, career: 126 (2017–19)[1]
  • Most goals, IIHF World U18 Championships: 18 (2018, 2019)[2]
• Most goals, regular season: 72 (2018–19)[1]
  • Most goals, single tournament: 14 (at the 2019 IIHF World U18 Championship)[2]

• Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database