DULUTH — Minnesota Duluth’s Max Plante and Adam Kleber will have to play host over the holidays to their friends in red, white and blue.

Duluth and Amsoil Arena are hosting the U.S. National Junior Team, as well as Finland and Germany, for pretournament games in late December prior to the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The United States will face Germany at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, at Amsoil Arena before taking on Finland at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23. Finland and Germany will play each other at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19.

General admission tickets are available online for $23.85 (including fees) for each game, or fans can purchase a general admission pass to all three games for $58.75.

Plante and Kleber, both sophomores for the Bulldogs this season, w

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