BOSTON -- Ron Wilson, coach of the United States national junior team, feels Auston Matthews is a more confident player this week than the one he saw four months ago.
Matthews left the United States to play for Zurich in Switzerland's top professional league following USA Hockey's National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, N.Y., in August. He returned to the U.S. this week for the four-day U.S. Junior Select Camp at Boston University.
Wilson knows Matthews needs to play a huge role if the United States is going to have any success in the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship in Finland beginning Dec.