Overview
- Casper clinched the best-of-three final with a 7-5 victory in the deciding game after the teams split the first two contests.
- The series concluded in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with Casper's lineup of Luc Violette, Aidan Oldenburg, Ben Richardson and Rich Ruohonen.
- Shuster, 43, had competed at five Olympics with gold in 2018 and bronze in 2006, and his bid for a sixth Games ended in the trials final.
- Team Casper moves on to the Olympic Qualifying Event in Kelowna, Canada on Dec. 5–18, where a top-two finish would secure the U.S. spot for 2026.
- Casper, a Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., native and 2024 University of Minnesota graduate, skips a Chaska-based rink after returning from a Guillain-Barré Syndrome diagnosis last season.