2019 U.S. Men's National Team Game Notes Preliminary Round Vs
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2019 U.S. MEN’S NATIONAL TEAM GAME NOTES 2019 IIHF Men’s World Championship | Germany (H) vs. USA (V) | Sunday, May 19, 2019 Steel Arena • Kosice, Slovakia • Preliminary Round, Game 6 TODAY'S GAME BLASHILL MAKES HISTORY The U.S. faces Germany today in its sixth of seven preliminary Jeff Blashill, head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team, picked round games of the 2019 IIHF Men's World Championship in up his 18th career win in the world championship yesterday vs. Kosice, Slovakia. Team USA is the visiting team, will wear its Denmark and is now the all-time winningest U.S. coach in men's blue jerseys and occupy the left bench. The U.S. and Germany world championship history (top division). Blashill has led Team met in a pre-tournament game in Mannheim on May 7 with Team USA to 18 wins in 23 games in the world championship over the USA gaining a 5-2 win (see boxscore later in these notes). last three years. Below is a look at the top five winningest U.S. coaches in the top division of the men's world championship. LINEUP TODAY Lou Vairo's 19 wins mark the most by a U.S. coach in world Forward Luke Kunin from the Minnesota Wild, who was recently championship play overall (all divisions). Vairo coached the U.S. added to the U.S. roster, arrived into Kosice very early this morning four times in the top division (2000, '01, '02, '03) and once in the and is expected to be in the lineup today. Forward Johnny B pool (1983). Gaudreau, who missed yesterday's game, is day-to-day and will be a game-time decision. Defenseman Zach Werenski from the Jeff Blashill 18 2017, 2018, 2019 Columbus Blue Jackets, who was also recently added to the U.S. Tim Taylor 17 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 roster is set to arrive in Kosice tomorrow. Coach had Lou Vairo 14 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Jeff Blashill Peter Laviolette 13 2004, 2005, 2014 not settled on a starting netminder prior to press time. Ron Wilson 13 1994, 1996, 2009 RECORD SETTING FINAL THOUGHTS ON PAGE ONE is the all-time U.S. career points leader in the world Patrick Kane Ryan Suter is averaging 25:05 of ice time per game, the most championship. He also owns the career mark by a U.S. player for of any player in the tournament. He is one of nine U.S. players most assists in the world championship. Dylan Larkin today will averaging better than 20 minutes a game (Eichel, DeBrincat, play in his 44th game in the men's world championship to tie Darby Larkin, Martinez, Q. Hughes, Hanifin, Skjei, Kane) ... Team USA Hendrickson for sixth all-time among U.S. players. is looking to advance to the quarterfinal round of the world championship for the ninth straight year ... Patrick Kane is tied All-Time U.S. Career Point Leaders in Men's World Championship for fifth in the world championship in points with 2-7--9, while Name GP G A TP is tied for sixth with 6-2--8. DeBrincat's six goals Patrick Kane 22 13 26 39 Alex DeBrincat Mark Johnson 62 15 18 33 are the second most in the tournament, while Kane's seven Dylan Larkin 43 9 24 33 assists are third most ... Jack Hughes picked up his first men's Paul Stastny 25 14 18 31 world championship point yesterday vs. Denmark with an assist Johnny Gaudreau 29 10 21 31 on Chris Kreider's first-period goal.Christian Wolanin and Cory Schneider are the only two players without a point for Team USA. WHAT'S NEW The U.S. needs two points to secure a spot in the quarterfinal round TEAM USA SCHEDULE of the world championship ... Jack Eichel and Alex DeBrincat have a point in all five games of the world championship ... The Date Game Time (Local/ET)/Result U.S. power play is the second best in the tournament at 46.2% (6- Tues., May 7 Germany vs. USA (exh.) W, 5-2 13). Team USA has had the second fewest power play attempts Mannheim • SAP Arena in the tournament ... ... The U.S. has been whistled for 12 minor Fri., May 10 USA vs. Slovakia L, 1-4 penalties in the first five games of the world championship, Kosice • Steel Arena tied for the fewest in the tournament with Finland ... Fourteen Sun., May 12 USA vs. France W, 7-1 (and soon to be 15) NHL first-round draft picks populate the Kosice • Steel Arena U.S. roster. Team USA's average age is 24.9. Mon., May 13 USA vs. Finland W, 3-2 OT THE SERIES VS. GERMANY Kosice • Steel Arena The U.S. and Germany meet for the 18th time in the world Wed., May 15 USA vs. Great Britain W, 6-3 championship with Team USA holding a 9-0-1-4-3 advantage Kosice • Steel Arena (w-otw-otl-l-t). The teams last met in the 2018 world championship Sat., May 18 Denmark vs. USA W 7-1 with Team USA gaining a 3-0 victory. Kosice • Steel Arena Sun., May 19 Germany vs. USA 4:15 p.m./10:15 a.m. Kosice • Steel Arena Tues., May 21 Canada vs. USA 8:15 p.m./2:15 p.m. Kosice • Steel Arena Thurs., May 23 Quarterfinals TBD Kosice & Bratislava Sat., May 25 Semifinals 3:15/7:15 p.m./9:15 a.m./1:15 p.m. Bratislava • Ondrej Nepela Arena Sun., May 26 Bronze Medal Game 3:45 p.m./9:45 a.m. Bratislava • Ondrej Nepela Arena Gold Medal Game 8:15 p.m./2:15 p.m. Bratislava • Ondrej Nepela Arena Home Team Listed First • All U.S. games televised live on NHL Network Team USA Media Officer: Dave Fischer • 719.684.5940 • [email protected] Online Media Information: TeamUSA.USAHockey.com/2019mensworlds @usahockey • teamusa.usahockey.com/2019mensworlds • usahockey.com • #MensWorlds 1 2019 U.S. Men's National Team Game Notes Preliminary Round vs. Germany • Sunday, May 19, 2019 FROM PREVIOUS GAME NOTES ALL-TIME RECORD VS. OPPONENT The U.S. Men's National Team players and staff gathered in Newark, New Jersey, on (as of start of 2019 MWC) Saturday (May 4) and flew to Germany that evening. Team USA arrived at the Frankfurt Opponent GP Record^ GF GA airport Sunday (May 5) morning and after gathering its luggage, took a charter bus to Austria 12 11-0-0-2-0 58 23 Mannheim. The U.S. practiced both Sunday and Monday (May 6) and had one pre- Belarus 7 6-0-0-1-0 29 15 tournament game, a 5-2 win over Germany, in Mannheim on Tuesday (May 7). The U.S. Belgium 2 2-0-0-0-0 25 2 flew with Team Germany to Kosice from airport Baden Baden Wednesday morning (May 8) Canada 46 2-4-1-39-0 91 231 and had its first practice at Steel Arena in Kosice Thursday (May 9) ... A handful of players Czech Republic 14 6-3-1-6-1 43 44 went bowling in Kosice on Wednesday (May 8). Word is the average score was around Czechoslovakia 38 8-2-0-25-3 76 194 135 ... A total of nine players from the bronze medal-winning 2018 U.S. Men's National Denmark 7 5-0-1-1-0 26 12 East Germany 10 2-0-0-5-3 39 40 Team return this year, including Quinn Hughes, Alec , , , Finland 63 22-1-2-30-8 188 222 Martinez Alex DeBrincat Johnny Gaudreau France 10 9-0-0-1-0 43 15 Patrick Kane, Chris Kreider, Dylan Larkin, Derek Germany 17 9-0-1-4-3 49 37 Ryan, and Colin White ... Dale Tallon, a member of Great Britain 4 2-0-0-0-2 22 14 the U.S. Men's National Team Advisory Group, was Hungary 2 2-0-0-0-0 8 1 with Team USA in Europe on its world championship Italy 8 5-1-0-2-0 26 17 journey from May 4-14 ... Quinn and Jack Hughes Japan 2 2-0-0-0-0 15 2 took time out to drop by "Dreger's Cafe" on May Kazakhstan 3 1-2-0-0-0 17 5 11 and visit with host Darren Dreger of TSN for 10 Korea 1 1-0-0-0-0 13 1 minutes. The Cafe set-up was in Old Town near Latvia 14 9-1-0-3-1 44 29 the team's hotel ... played baseball Netherlands 3 3-0-0-0-0 31 10 Frank Vatrano Norway 19 18-0-0-1-0 124 41 from grades 2-10. He was a catcher as a kid and Poland 17 14-0-0-2-1 91 40 moved to the outfield in high school ... Brady Skjei Romania 4 3-0-0-1-0 41 10 took over the U.S. Olympic Committee's Instagram Russia 16 6-1-0-8-1 43 50 for part of the day on May 11 ... Patrick Kane and Slovakia 11 4-2-1-3-1 32 29 Jack Hughes are seated next to each other in Slovenia 4 4-0-0-0-0 22 4 Team USA's lockerroom ... Dylan Larkin scored his Soviet Union 28 0-0-0-28-0 60 237 fifth 3-on-3 overtime game-winner of the season Sweden 54 11-0-1-37-5 131 266 Monday (May 13) vs.