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Team USA Game Notes 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship • Malmo, Sweden Team USA (2-0-0-0) vs. Germany (0-0-0-2) Dec. 29, 2013, 3:00 p.m. CET (9:00 a.m. ET) • Preliminary Round Team USA Schedule (times are local/ET) USA Hockey Communications Contact: Matt Trevor Thursday, Dec. 26 -- Group A Email: [email protected] • Cell: +46 738 539 885 vs. Czech Republic W, 5-1 TODAY’S GAME Saturday, Dec. 28 -- Group A The United States faces Germany at Malmo Isstadion (capacity: 5,140) vs. Slovakia W, 6-3 in the third Group A game for each team at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship. With two wins (6 points), Team USA is currently in first Sunday, Dec. 29 -- Group A place, while the Germans are in fifth after losses to Canada (7-2) and vs. Germany 3:00 p.m./9:00 a.m. Slovakia (9-2). Germany finished in ninth place last year. In the U.S., the game will be televised live on NHL Network (Di- Tuesday, Dec. 31 -- Group A recTV 215, Dish 477) and streamed live on NHL.com. It will also be vs. Canada 5:30 p.m./11:30 a.m. re-aired at 7 p.m. on NHL Network. Thursday, Jan. 2 -- Quarterfinal THE SERIES VS. GERMANY TBD TBD - The U.S. leads in the all-time series vs. Germany, 8-0-1-0-0 (W-OTW- Friday, Jan. 3 -- Semifinal OTL-L-T) and has a 51-14 advantage in goals. - The U.S. defeated the Germans, 8-0, in the preliminary round of last TBD TBD year’s tournament. Sunday, Jan. 5 -- Medal Round - Team USA has won three in a row vs. Germany. The lone loss was a 2-1 overtime decision in the 2006 tournament. TBD TBD All games: live on NHL Network U.S. (DirectTV 215, Dish 477), live streamed on NHL.com in U.S. LAST GAME: USA 6, SLOVAKIA 3 Six players scored and goaltender Jon Gillies made 27 stops in the USA vs. Germany win. Team USA used three power-play goals to build a 3-0 lead Tale of the Tape through the first 25 minutes. Jack Eichel scored from between the circles at 16:53 and Dan O’Regan scored as time expired in the first Category USA Germany period. Ryan Hartman hit the top left corner with a one-timer at 4:22 Record 2-0-0-0 0-0-0-2 of the second frame. Slovakia scored back-to-back power-play goals to draw within one heading into the third period. Matt Grzelcyk Goals For/Avg. 11/5.50 4/2.00 jumped into the slot to pad the U.S. lead at 9:33. Stefan Matteau and Goals Against/Avg. 4/2.00 16/8.00 Riley Barber then scored two minutes apart to make it 6-2. Slovakia Power Play .625 (5-8) .167 (1-6) added a late goal to end the scoring. Penalty Killing .625 (5-8) .429 (3-7) Shots For Gm/Avg. 80/40.0 41/20.5 SCORING DEPTH Shots Against Gm/Avg. 54/27.0 58/29.0 Through two games, 15 Americans have a point, while 10 have a goal. Shorthanded Goals 0 0 Riley Barber is the only player with multiple goals (2). Jack Eichel, Top Scorers Eichel (1-2-3) Kahun (2-1-3) Dan O’Regan, Ryan Hartman, Matt Grzelcyk and Stefan Matteau Hartman (1-2-3) Moser (1-1-2) each found the back of the net for the first time in the win over Slovakia. Top Goalies Gillies Cupper Six players are tied for the team points lead: Eichel (1-2--3), Grzelcyk (1-2--3), Hartman (1-2--3), Will Butcher (1-2--3), Andrew Copp (0- (2-0, 2.00, .926) (0-2, 8.61, .735) 3--3), Nic Kerdiles (0-3--3). USA HOCKEY WINTER EVENTS UPDATE OFFENSE FROM DEFENSE • The U.S. Women’s National Team beat Canada, 3-2, in a shoot- In two games, Team USA’s defensemen have contributed three goals out last night in St. Paul, Minn. USA plays Canada tomorrow (Dec. 30) in Toronto. Universal Sports has the 7 p.m. broadcast. and six assists. Will Butcher and Matt Grzelcyk are tied for the team • The U.S. Olympic Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey Teams will be points lead, having each tallied a goal and two assists. Jaccob Slavin announced Jan. 1, 2014, at the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic in has a goal and Connor Carrick has two helpers. Last year, the U.S. Ann Arbor, Mich. The women’s team will be announced during the defense corps potted 10 goals and added 19 assists en route to the gold second intermission, while the men’s team will be unveiled imme- medal in Ufa, Russia. diately following the game. NBC Sports Network will show both. • The U.S. National Under-17 Team beat Quebec, 6-2, in a pre- USA Hockey on the Web: usahockey.com tournament game at the 2014 World Under-17 Challenge in Cape Bios, Record Book, Video, Clips: worldjuniors.usahockey.com Breton, Nova Scotia. FASTHockey.com will stream today’s tour- Twitter: @usahockey • @usahockeyscores • #USAWJC nament opener vs. Russia, as well as all opening round games. Facebook: facebook.com/usahockey Game Notes • vs. Germany • Dec. 29, 2013 • Page 2 HEAD COACH DON LUCIA TEAM USA STATISTICAL LEADERS Points Goals Assists ‘D’ Points Plus/Minus Butcher (1-2-3) Barber (2) Copp (3) Butcher (1-2-3) Carrick (+4) Eichel (1-2-3) 9 Tied (1) Kerdiles (3) Grzelcyk (1-2-3) Copp (+3) Grzelcyk (1-2-3) 6 Tied (2) Carrick (0-2-2) Grzelcyk (+3) Hartman (1-2-3) Slavin (1-0-1) 6 Tied (+2) Copp (0-3-3) Kerdiles (0-3-3) Don Lucia is serving as head coach of the Full stats on page six U.S. National Junior Team for the fi rst time. In his 27th season as a head men’s ice hockey coach at the NCAA Division I level, SPECIAL TEAMS REPORT Kerdiles leads the University of Wiscon- Lucia’s 634 wins rank fourth all-time among Team USA went 3-for-5 on the power play sin in points (8-9--17) this season and led active coaches. He has won two national titles against the Slovaks, scoring on each of its Team USA in scoring (4-5--9) en route to (Minnesota-2002, 2003) and his teams have fi rst three opportunities. Overall, the U.S. the gold medal at the 2012 IIHF Men’s Un- averaged nearly 24 victories per season. leads the tournament in power play effi - der-18 World Championship. As Kerdiles’ Lucia has had a variety of U.S. coaching ciency at 62.5% (5-for-8). center at that tournament, O’Regan tallied positions. In August 2012, he was a camp The U.S. penalty kill was 4-for-6 vs. Slo- 1-3--4. Also, O’Regan led Boston Univer- coach at the U.S. National Junior Evalua- tion Camp in Lake Placid, N.Y. In 1996, he vakia and stands 5-for-8 (.625) through two sity in scoring (16-22--38) in 2012-13 as served as head coach of the U.S. Select-16 games. a freshman and is among BU’s top scor- Team in a series vs. Finland. In 1995, he was ers this season. Finally, Barber is tied for the head coach of Team West at the United GILLIES GROOVE second in college hockey this year with 28 States Olympic Festival in Denver, and later Jon Gillies has stopped 50-of-54 shots points (11-17). A year ago, he tallied 3-3-- that year was an assistant coach for the U.S. (.926), which ranks second among goalies 6 to help Team USA win the gold medal Men’s Select Team that competed for the who have played more than 50% of their at the World Junior Championship in Ufa, Tampere Cup in Finland. team’s minutes. He turned aside 23-of-24 Russia. Lucia has been the head men’s ice hockey shots from the Czechs for his fi rst WJC win coach at the University of Minnesota since the 1999-2000 season, winning national titles and stopped 27-of-30 shots from Slovakia. WELCOME BACK in 2002 and 2003, and guiding the Gophers Three of the four goals against have been Forwards Riley Barber and Ryan Hart- to two other Frozen Four appearances (2005, on the power play. man, as well as goaltender Jon Gillies 2012). were members of the 2013 U.S. National From 1993-99, he was at the helm of the FACEOFF FORTUNES Junior Team that won the gold medal in Colorado College program, which he took to Team USA has won 99-of-176 faceoffs Ufa, Russia. Barber contributed three a pair of NCAA Frozen Fours (1996, 1997). (56.3%) in two games. Andrew Copp goals, which tied for third on Team USA, Lucia began his head-coaching career in 1987 has won two-thirds of his draws (28-14, and three assists for six points. Hartman at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where W-L), while Jack Eichel (18-19) and Dan tallied two goals and an assist. Gillies was he stayed until 1993. Lucia’s fi rst coaching stint came as an O’Regan (16-13) are near 50%. the backup netminder to John Gibson for assistant coach at the University of Alaska the U.S., stopping all seven shots he faced Fairbanks (1981-85).