Team USA Game Notes 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship • Moscow/St. Petersburg, Russia Belarus (0-0-0-1) vs. USA (0-0-0-1) • Game 2 Sat., May 7, 2016 • Yubileiny Sports Palace • St. Petersburg, Russia • Prelim Round

Team USA Schedule/Results (times are local/ET) USA Hockey Communications Contact: Dave Fischer Friday, May 6 - Group B (St. Petersburg) Email: [email protected] • Cell: +79 254 033 816 USA vs. Canada* L, 1-5 • TONIGHT’S GAME Saturday, May 7 - Group B (St. Petersburg) The U.S. Men’s National Team faces Belarus tonight in the Belarus vs. USA 8:15 p.m./1:15 p.m. second of seven preliminary round games for both teams in Monday, May 9 - Group B (St. Petersburg) the 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship at Yubileiny Sports Finland vs. USA* 8:15 p.m./1:15 p.m. Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Thursday, May 12 - Group B (St. Petersburg) • STARTING IN USA vs. France 4:15 p.m./9:15 a.m. Mike Condon is the likely starter in goal tonight against Friday, May 13 - Group B (St. Petersburg) Belarus. The Holliston, Massachusetts, native is making his USA vs. Hungary 4:15 p.m./9:15 a.m. first-ever start for a U.S. national team. Condon played 55 Sunday, May 15 - Group B (St. Petersburg) games (21-25-0, 2.71, .903) for the Canadiens in Germany vs. USA 4:15 p.m./9:15 a.m. 2015-16, his first season in the NHL.

Tuesday, May 17 - Group B (St. Petersburg) • ALL-TIME vs. BELARUS USA vs. Slovakia* 12:15 p.m./5:15 a.m. The U.S. and Belarus meet for the seventh time ever in the Thursday, May 19 - Quarterfinals (St. Petersburg) men’s world championship here tonight. The U.S. has won vs. TBD TBD five of the first six meetings, with its only loss coming last Saturday, May 21 - Semifinals (Moscow) year (boxscore below) when it was seeking to win its first four games in a world championship for just the fourth time ever. vs. TBD TBD Sunday, May 22 - Bronze-Medal Game (Moscow) May 7, 2015—at CEZ Arena • Ostrava, (6,648) vs. TBD 4:15 p.m./9:15 a.m. United States (h) 0 1 1 — 2 Sunday, May 22 - Gold-Medal Game (Moscow) Belarus (v) 0 3 2 — 5 vs. TBD 8:15 p.m./1:15 p.m. 1st: No Scoring 2nd: BLR-Gavrus (Lisovets, Shinkevich), 11:11 All games streamed lived on NBC Sports Live Extra. BLR-Volkov (Kostitsyn), 13:01 BLR-Kitarov (Kostitsyn), 16:06 Games with * above live on NBC Sports Network. Others in prelim- USA-Nelson (Eichel), 17:21 inary round delayed as follows: Belarus-1:30 am ET/Hungary-9:45 3rd: BLR-Kalyuzhny (Kostitsyn, Usenko), 5x3 PPG, 1:15 a.m./Germany-3 p.m. ET USA-Krug (Eichel, Lewis), 5x4 PPG, 5:35 BLR-Kalyuzhny (Kostitsyn, Lisovets), 8:23

BRAND NEW BITS AND PIECES Penalties: USA 4-8, BLR 5-10 Power Plays: USA 1-5, BLR 1-4 Forward Pat Maroon has a goal in each of the two games Saves: USA-Campbell (7-8-3--18): 60:00 BLR-Lalande (13-9-6--28): 60:00 played by Team USA, including its exhibition contest vs. Shots: USA 13-10-7--30; BLR 7-11-5--23 Finland on May 3 and yesterday’s contest against Cana- Officials: Refs-Konstantin Olenin, Roman Gofman; Lines-Vit Lederer, Andre Schrader da. Maroon is just the third player ever with the last name Notes: The U.S. was shooting to be 4-0 at the world championship for the first time since of a color on a U.S. Men’s National Team. John Blue and 1939, but a strong effort by Belarus foiled those plans. Mark Arcobello was named the U.S. a host of Browns, including Charlie (yes, Charlie Brown), Player of the Game. Doug, Dustin, Greg, J.T., Mike and Peter are the others ... Team USA will wear its blue jerseys today and occupy the USA vs. Belarus Series History right bench ... The U.S. gave up five goals yesterday in Date Round Result GF-GA its loss to Canada. Team USA hadn’t given up that many 5/7/2015 Preliminary L 2-5 goals in an opening game of the IIHF Men’s World Cham- 5/9/2014 Preliminary W 6-1 pionship since 2003 when it dropped a 5-2 decision to 5/10/2012 Preliminary W 5-3 Denmark ... Stan Wong is serving as an athletic trainer 4/29/2007 Preliminary W 5-1 for a U.S. team for the 36th time. This year marks his 10th 5/3/2003 Relegation W 4-2 straight men’s world championship. He has also served 5/5/2000 Qualification W 1-0 as a trainer for three Olympic teams, 14 national junior TOTALS -- 5-0-0-1 23-12 squads, eight Deutschland Cup teams and for Team USA at one Youth Olympic Games. Wong was inducted into REBOUND: The U.S. looks to avoid an 0-2 start in the world the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame in championship for the first time since 2010. That year, Team June 2015 ... Dr. Yani Zinis, who is a team physician for USA lost a pair of OT games to start the world championship, the Avalanche, is Team USA’s team physician. including a 2-1 decision to host Germany before 77,803 at Zinis’ nephew, Christos, played hockey as a 15-year-old Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen. The U.S. has started 0-2 in in Scottsdale, Arizona, with Auston Matthews ... U.S. head the world championship 14 times, but just twice since 1990. coach and assistant coach spent one season together (2003-04) as head coaches Team USA Bios, History: teamusa.usahockey.com at USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program. Twitter: @usahockey • @usahockeyscores • #IIHFWorlds Team USA Game Notes vs. Belarus • Saturday, May 7, 2016 • 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship • Page Two

• BACK FROM LAST YEAR • MEDAL MOMENTS Roster Breakdown Team USA returns three players from A total of 16 players on the 2016 U.S. its bronze-medal 2015 U.S. Men’s Men’s National Team have earned Average age: 23.0 years National Team, including defensem- a combined 26 medals at IIHF world Average height: 6-1 an Connor Murphy, forward Dylan championships, including 11 players Average weight: 198 Larkin and forward , who have won gold. Auston Matthews, Shoots/catches left: 16; right: 7 who served as . The 2015 Jake McCabe and Connor Murphy Oldest: Matt Hendricks, 34 yrs., 10 months squad won eight games at the world lead the way with two gold medals a Youngest: Auston Matthews, 18 yrs., 7 months championship, the most of any U.S. piece. Below is a list of all the players HOME STATES OF TEAM USA team in a single men’s world champi- who have earned gold for Team USA: Massachusetts 4 onship. JT Compher: 2012 U18 Worlds 4 New York 4 • MEN’S WORLDS EXPERIENCE : 2014 U18 Worlds : 2014 U18 Worlds Michigan 3 Five players have experience playing Illinois 2 in the IIHF Men’s World Championship. : 2014 U18 Worlds Auston Matthews: 2015 U18 2 The group includes three players that Arizona 1 competed a year ago (Matt Hendricks, Worlds/2014 U18 Worlds Jake McCabe: 2013 World California 1 Dylan Larkin, Connor Murphy), Ohio 1 as well as Jake McCabe and Nick Juniors/2011 U18 Worlds Connor Murphy: 2013 World Wisconsin 1 Foligno. Juniors/2011 U18 Worlds MOST RECENT TEAM • PLAYING FOR TEAM USA Jordan Schroeder: 2010 World Juniors NHL (15) A total of 19 players on the 2016 Brady Skjei: 2012 U18 Worlds 2 U.S. Men’s National Team have com- Frank Vatrano: 2012 U18 Worlds 2 David Warsofsky: 2010 World Juniors 2 peted for Team USA at IIHF world championships in their career (U18, 1 • YOUTH MOVEMENT Bruins 1 World Juniors, Men’s Worlds). Below The 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team 1 is a list with total games played head- has an average age of 23.0. Below is a 1 ing into the 2016 IIHF Men’s World look at the average age of Team USA 1 Championship. since 2004. 1 1 JT Compher: 18 games played Average Age Since 2004 2016 23.0 1 Kyle Connor: 7 games played 1 Thatcher Demko: 11 games played 2015 24.3 Noah Hanifin: 12 games played 2014 24.8 SWISS-A (1) Hudson Fasching: 17 games played 2013 25.8 Zurich Lions 1 Nick Foligno: 15 games played 2012 25.2 NCAA (6) Matt Hendricks: 10 games played 2011 24.4 2010 24.4 3 Vinnie Hinostroza: 5 games played University of Michigan 3 Dylan Larkin: 21 games played 2009 24.8 Auston Matthews: 26 games played 2008 24.6 2007 24.5 AHL (1) Jake McCabe: 21 games played Rockford IceHogs 1 : 12 games played 2006 24.7 Connor Murphy: 28 games played 2005 28.1 COLLEGE CONNECTION (19) : 12 games played 2004 27.6 Boston College 4 Jordan Schroeder: 33 games played • TEAM USA COACHING STAFF University of Michigan 4 Brady Skjei: 11 games played John Hynes is serving as head coach University of Minnesota 3 Frank Vatrano: 6 games played of the U.S. Men’s National Team for the 1 David Warsofsky: 14 games played first time. Hynes, the head coach of the Miami University 1 Miles Wood: 5 games played New Jersey Devils, spent six seasons Princeton University 1 (2003-09) as a head coach at USA St. Cloud State University 1 Four players on the 2016 U.S. Men’s Hockey’s National Team Development UMass-Amherst 1 Union College 1 National Team are playing in an IIHF Program, and also served as an assis- University of Notre Dame 1 world championship for the first time, tant coach of the gold medal 2004 U.S. University of Wisconsin 1 including defenseman Chris Wideman, National Junior Team. He was recently forward , and goalten- named an assistant coach for the U.S. ders Keith Kinkaid and Mike Condon. team that will compete in the 2016 . Todd Richards and David Quinn are serving as assis- tant coaches of the 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team. Richards was head coach of last year’s bronze medal-win- ning U.S. Men’s National Team. Team USA Game Notes vs. Belarus • Saturday, May 7, 2016 • 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship • Page Three • TIDBITS FROM PREVIOUS GAME NOTES • ROSTER UPDATE Team USA flew from NYC to Helsinki Saturday (April 30) with The U.S. roster currently stands at 23 players, leaving two an early Sunday arrival. The team trained in Helsinki Sun- spots open. The most recent addition is forward Frank day-Tuesday and played an exhibition game against Finland Vatrano, who played for in 2015-16. Luke Tuesday evening (May 3). Auston Matthews left the U.S. Glendening, who was originally named to the U.S. roster, with his parents on Friday (April 29) and arrived Saturday in returned to the U.S. on Monday (May 2) and will not play for Helsinki in time to be hooked up live via satellite to the NHL Team USA due to health reasons. Draft Lottery Selection Show. The U.S. arrived in St. Peters- burg via train Wednesday afternoon (May 4) from Helsinki ... • MANAGEMENT TEAM is here with Team USA through May 9. Tallon is The 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team is under the direction part of the U.S. Men’s National Team Advisory Group which is of the U.S. Men’s National Team Advisory Group, includ- responsible for selecting players and staff for the U.S. Men’s National Team ... is part of the U.S. management ing NHL general managers (), group for this year’s men’s national team. He is here with the Dean Lombardi (Los Angeles), (Nashville), team through today (May 7) ... Auston Matthews is flanked Ray Shero (New Jersey) and Dale Tallon (Florida). Also by captain Matt Hendricks (left) and Jordan Schroeder involved is , president of Gale Force Sports & (right) in Team USA’s lockerroom ... The average age of Team Entertainment. The group is led by Jim Johannson, USA USA is 23.0 years old (see the average age of Team USA Hockey’s assistant executive director of hockey operations. since 2004 in these notes) ... Thatcher Demko, a Chris Drury, director of player development for the New student at Boston College, took a final exam in sociology on York Rangers, is also part of the management group for the Thursday (May 5) in St. Petersburg ... Seven players on the 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team. U.S. roster played NCAA Division I hockey in 2015-16 (Dem- ko, Santini, Compher, Conner, Fasching, Motte, Wood). • JUNIOR CONNECTION Nineteen members of the 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team • TEAM CAPTAINS NAMED are alums of either the United States Hockey League or the Matt Hendricks is the captain of the 2016 U.S. Men’s North , the only Tier I and Tier II National Team. He played on his first U.S. Men’s National junior hockey leagues in the U.S., respectively. Team a year ago and as captain helped lead Team USA to the bronze medal. Hendricks was the oldest member of the • USA HOCKEY’S NTDP ROOTS U.S. Men’s National Team a year ago and holds that same Fourteen members of the 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team distinction this year at age 34. The next oldest on the team were members of USA Hockey’s National Team Development is Nick Foligno (28). Hendricks has served as an alternate Program. The NTDP is an elite development program created captain throughout his professional career, including at by USA Hockey in 1996 currently housed in the Detroit suburb Edmonton the last three seasons. He was team captain of of Plymouth, Michigan. his college team, St. Cloud State University, in 2003-04. Nick Foligno and Connor Murphy are the team’s alternate captains. Foligno has played for Team USA in two previ- ous IIHF Men’s World Championships (2009, 2010), while Murphy is also a two-time veteran of the U.S. Men’s National Team (2014, 2015-bronze) and helped Team USA win gold medals in both the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship and 2011 IIHF U18 Men’s World Championship. Murphy has played 29 games for Team USA, the second most of any player on the roster. Jordan Schroeder leads the way with 34 games played.

TEAM USA RIVALS ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE: Boston College netminder Thatcher Demko flanked by Boston University greats David Quinn (left) and Chris Drury (right).

2015 Men’s World Championship U.S. Success in 2016 A Look Back The 2015 U.S. Men’s National Team finished third Team USA has medaled at every International Fed- among 16 teams at the IIHF Men’s World Champion- eration event of the 2016 campaign so far, including two gold ship in Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic. Team medals and two bronze medals. Both women’s teams — the U.S. USA (7-1-0-2, W-OTW-OTL-L) lost to Russia in the Women’s National Team and U.S. Women’s National Under-18 semifinals but went on to beat host Czech Republic in Team — took home gold at their respective world championships. the bronze medal game. It was Team USA’s second The U.S. National Junior Team earned bronze at the 2016 World bronze medal in the past three years. Forward Brock Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland. And most recently, the Nelson led all U.S. players with 10 points (6-4), while U.S. Men’s National Under-18 Team took home bronze at the forward Trevor Lewis contributed 9 points (3-6). IIHF U18 Men’s World Championship, marking Team USA’s 13th consecutive medal at the event. 2016 U.S. Men’s National Team Game-by-Game Scoring

FIN (ex.) CAN BEL FIN FRA HUN GER SVK TBD TBD TBD L, 2-3 OT L, 1-5 No Name 5/3 5/6 5/7 5/9 5/12 5/13 5/15 5/17 5/19 5/21 5/22 5 Connor Murphy ------6 Chris Wideman ------7 JT Compher G ------10 Jordan Schroeder G# ------14 Tyler Motte ------15 Noah Hanifin ------16 Steven Santini ------18 Kyle Connor -- A ------19 Patrick Maroon A P ------21 Dylan Larkin ------23 Matt Hendricks A ------24 Hudson Fasching ------28 Miles Wood ------29 Jake McCabe A ------34 Auston Matthews A ------48 Vinnie Hinostroza ------55 David Warsofsky -- A ------71 Nick Foligno ------72 Frank Vatrano DND ------76 Brady Skjei ------

1 Keith Kinkaid ND (29:18) L (60:00) ------12/14 28/33 30 Mike Condon L (33:40) DNP ------13/14 31 Thatcher Demko DND DND ------

# = U.S. Player of the Game

Key: G-goal; S-shorthanded goal; E-empty net goal; U-unassisted goal; P-power play goal; W-game-winning goal; A-assist; asterik-assist on game-winning goal; DND-did not dress; DNP-did not play; INJ-injured

Situationally Speaking Team USA Records In Various Situations in 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship (through May 6) Overall Record...... 0-0-0-1 Leading After 1 Period...... 0-0-0-0 Trailing After 1 Period...... 0-0-0-1 Wearing White...... 0-0-0-1 Tied After 1 Period...... 0-0-0-0 Wearing Blue...... 0-0-0-0 Leading After 2 Periods...... 0-0-0-0 Games Decided By One Goal or Less...... 0-0-0-0 Trailing After 2 Periods...... 0-0-0-1 2-Goal Games...... 0-0-0-0 Tied After 2 Periods...... 0-0-0-0 3-Goal Games...... 0-0-0-0 4-Goal Games...... 0-0-0-1 OT Record...... 0-0-0-0 Shootout Record...... 0-0-0-0 Scoring 5+ Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Scoring 4 Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Having 10-19 Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Scoring 3 Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Having 20-29 Shots...... 0-0-0-1 Scoring 2 Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Having 30-39 Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Scoring 1 Goal...... 0-0-0-1 Having 40-49 Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Having 50+ Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 1 or Fewer...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 2 Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 10-19 Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 3 Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 20-29 Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 4 Goals...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 30-39 Shots...... 0-0-0-1 Allowing 5+ Goals...... 0-0-0-1 Allowing 40-49 Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Allowing 50+ Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Scoring a Power-Play Goal...... 0-0-0-1 Allowing a Power-Play Goal...... 0-0-0-0 Outshooting Opponent...... 0-0-0-0 Outshot By Opponent...... 0-0-0-1 Scoring First...... 0-0-0-1 Even Shots...... 0-0-0-0 Opponent Scoring First...... 0-0-0-0 ICE HOCKEY

IIHF ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

PLAYER STATISTICS BY TEAM

As of FRI 6 MAY 2016 Including Game #2 USA - United States Playing Statistics No Name Pos GP G A PTS PIM +/ - GWG PPG SHG SOG SG% TM M/G TSh AT/S 1 KINKAID Keith GK 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5 MURPHY Connor D 1 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0.00 20:05 20:05 28 0:43 6 WIDEMAN Chris D 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 15:08 15:08 20 0:45 7 COMPHER J.T. F 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0.00 15:04 15:04 22 0:41 10 SCHROEDER Jordan F 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 2 0.00 13:50 13:50 18 0:46 14 MOTTE Tyler F 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0.00 14:03 14:03 22 0:38 15 HANIFIN Noah D 1 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 3 0.00 19:18 19:18 24 0:48 16 SANTINI Steve D 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0.00 11:33 11:33 14 0:49 18 CONNOR Kyle F 1 0 1 1 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0.00 9:09 9:09 12 0:45 19 MAROON Patrick F 1 1 0 1 4 -2 0 1 0 3 33.33 12:57 12:57 20 0:38 21 LARKIN Dylan F 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.00 19:55 19:55 26 0:45 23 HENDRICKS Matt F 1 0 0 0 2 -3 0 0 0 0 0.00 12:25 12:25 21 0:35 24 FASCHING Hudson F 1 0 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 0 0.00 7:51 7:51 13 0:36 28 WOOD Miles F 1 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0.00 5:16 5:16 8 0:39 29 McCABE Jake D 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0.00 11:26 11:26 14 0:49 30 CONDON Mike GK 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 31 DEMKO Thatcher GK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 34 MATTHEWS Auston F 1 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 3 0.00 16:56 16:56 26 0:39 48 HINOSTROZA Vince F 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 8:21 8:21 13 0:38 55 WARSOFSKY David D 1 0 1 1 0 -1 0 0 0 1 0.00 16:48 16:48 24 0:42 71 FOLIGNO Nick F 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 19:01 19:01 25 0:45 72 VATRANO Frank F 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 15:33 15:33 18 0:51 76 SKJEI Brady D 1 0 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 2 0.00 19:09 19:09 26 0:44 Goalkeeping Statistics No Name GPT GKD GPI MIP MIP% GA SVS SOG SVS% GAA SO W L 1 KINKAID Keith 1 1 1 60:00 100.00 5 28 33 84.85 5.00 0 0 1 30 CONDON Mike 1 1 0 00:00 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 31 DEMKO Thatcher 1 0 0 00:00 0.00 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 LEGEND A Assists AT/S Average time per shift D Defence F Forward G Goals GA Goals against GAA Goals against as average per 60 minutes GK Goalkeeper GKD Goalkeeper dressed GP Number of games played GPI Games played indeed GPT Number of games played by team GWG Game winning goals L Number of games lost MIP Minutes and seconds played MIP% MIP as percentage M/G Minutes per game No Jersey number PIM Penalties in minutes Pos Position on team PPG Power play goals PTS Points SG% Percentage of goals from total shots SHG Shorthanded goals SO Shutouts SOG Shots on goal SVS Saves SVS% SVS as percentage of total SOG TM Total minutes played TSh Total shifts played W Number of games won +/- Plus/minus net LEGEND A Assists AT/S Average time per shift D Defence F Forward G Goals GA Goals against GAA Goals against as average per 60 minutes GK Goalkeeper GKD Goalkeeper dressed GP Number of games played GPI Games played indeed GPT Number of games played by team GWG Game winning goals L Number of games lost MIP Minutes and seconds played MIP% MIP as percentage M/G Minutes per game No Jersey number PIM Penalties in minutes Pos Position on team PPG Power play goals PTS Points SG% Percentage of goals from total shots SHG Shorthanded goals SO Shutouts SOG Shots on goal SVS Saves SVS% SVS as percentage of total SOG TM Total minutes played TSh Total shifts played W Number of games won +/- Plus/minus net

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