2019 U.S. MEN’S NATIONAL TEAM GAME NOTES 2019 IIHF Men’s World Championship | Denmark (H) vs. USA (V) | Saturday, May 18, 2019 Steel Arena • Kosice, Slovakia • Preliminary Round, Game 5 TODAY'S GAME BLASHILL CAN SET MARK AS WINNINGEST U.S. COACH TODAY The U.S. Men's National Team faces Denmark today in its Jeff Blashill, head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team, picked fifth preliminary round game of the 2019 IIHF Men's World up his 17th career win in the world championship Wednesday Championship in Kosice, Slovakia. Team USA is the visiting team, (May 15) vs. Great Britain. Blashill, who has led Team USA to will wear its white jerseys and occupy the right bench (from the 17 wins in 22 games in the world championship, needs one perspective of standing on the bench and facing the ice). more win to become the all-time winningest U.S. coach in world championship history (top division only). Below is a look at U.S. STARTING IN GOAL TODAY coaches with 10 or more lifetime wins in the top division men's Cory Schneider is expected to start in goal for the U.S. He world championship. has played in two games of the world championship (May 10 vs. Slovakia, May 13 vs. Finland) and has a 2.91 goals against Tim Taylor 17 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 average and .903 save percentage. Jeff Blashill 17 2017, 2018, 2019 Lou Vairo 14 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 KANE ESTABLISHES NEW U.S. CAREER POINTS RECORD Peter Laviolette 13 2004, 2005, 2014 With his one-goal, two-assist effort vs. Great Britain on Wednesday Ron Wilson 13 1994, 1996, 2009 Walter Brown 12 1931, 1933, 1934 (May 15), Patrick Kane eclipsed Mark Johnson as the all-time Dave Peterson 12 1985, 1986, 1987 U.S. career points leader in the world championship. Kane led last Scott Gordon 12 2010, 2011, 2012 year's world championship with 8-12--20 and became the first- John Pleban 11 1950, 1961, 1962 ever American to be named tournament MVP. OFF DAYS All-Time U.S. Career Point Leaders in Men's World Championship Team USA had the previous two days off. On Thursday (May Name GP G A TP 16), three staff members, along witih players Ryan Suter, Dylan Patrick Kane 21 13 23 36 Larkin, Brady Skjei, Noah Hanifin and Thatcher Demko Mark Johnson 62 15 18 33 ventured to Red Fox Golf Club about 15 minutes outside of Dylan Larkin 41 8 24 32 Kosice. Skjei had the best nine-hole score with a three-over 38, Paul Stastny 25 14 18 31 while assistant coach Dan Bylsma was not far behind with a 39 Johnny Gaudreau 29 10 21 31 ... Patrick Kane and James van Riemsdyk, the top two picks of the 2007 NHL Draft, took time out on Thursday to join TSN's WHAT'S NEW Darren Dreger on the Dreger Cafe, as did U.S. general manager and are the two U.S. players that Jack Eichel Alex DeBrincat Chris Drury. In addition, defenseman Christian Wolanin did an have at least one point in every Team USA game in the world interview for the next USA Hockey Magazine podcast. championship to date ... Alex DeBrincat has scored four goals, the third most in the world championship ... The U.S. fired 65 shots on goal on Wednesday (May 15) vs. Great Britain, the most TEAM USA SCHEDULE for a U.S. team in a game in world championship history and tied for the third most ever in IIHF history in a single game. In Date Game Time (Local/ET)/Result addition, the U.S. had 26 shots on goal in the second period, a Tues., May 7 Germany vs. USA (exh.) W, 5-2 single-period U.S. record in the men's world championship ... Mannheim • SAP Arena Team USA did not take a penalty in its game Wednesday vs. Fri., May 10 USA vs. Slovakia L, 1-4 Great Britain. The U.S. is the least penalized team in the world championship with just seven minor penalties through the first Kosice • Steel Arena four games ... The U..S. power play is the second best in the Sun., May 12 USA vs. France W, 7-1 tournament at 44.4% (4-9). Team USA has had the third fewest Kosice • Steel Arena power play attempts in the tournament ... Team USA equipment Mon., May 13 USA vs. Finland W, 3-2 OT manager Scott Aldrich and team leader Marc Boxer have Kosice • Steel Arena been nearly lifelong friends. The duo grew up in the small Wed., May 15 USA vs. Great Britain W, 6-3 town of Hancock, Michigan, (population approximately 4,500) Kosice • Steel Arena in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Hancock is adjacent to Sat., May 18 Denmark vs. USA 12:15 p.m./6:15 a.m. Houghton, Michigan, which is the birthplace of professional Kosice • Steel Arena hockey in the U.S. and the home of Michigan Tech University Sun., May 19 Germany vs. USA 4:15 p.m./10:15 a.m. ... Defenseman Zach Werenski and forward Luke Kunin have Kosice • Steel Arena been added to the U.S. roster. Both will arrive over the weekend Tues., May 21 Canada vs. USA 8:15 p.m./2:15 p.m. and bring the U.S. roster to the maximum of 25. Kosice • Steel Arena THE SERIES VS. DENMARK Thurs., May 23 Quarterfinals TBD The U.S. and Denmark meet for the eighth time in the world Kosice & Bratislava championshiop with Team USA holding a 5-0-1-1 advantage Sat., May 25 Semifinals 3:15/7:15 p.m./9:15 a.m./1:15 p.m. (w-otw-otl-l). The teams last met in the 2018 world championship Bratislava • Ondrej Nepela Arena with Team USA gaining a 4-0 victory. 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. Denmark • Saturday, May 18, 2019 IN TOWN ALL-TIME RECORD VS. OPPONENT Pat Kelleher, executive director of USA Hockey, has arrived in Kosice and will be at (as of start of 2019 MWC) the world championship until its conclusion. In addition, former USA Hockey executive Opponent GP Record^ GF GA director Dave Ogrean, who currently serves as USA Hockey's special advisor to the president, is here until the end of the world championship. Austria 12 11-0-0-2-0 58 23 Belarus 7 6-0-0-1-0 29 15 FROM PREVIOUS GAME NOTES Belgium 2 2-0-0-0-0 25 2 The U.S. Men's National Team players and staff gathered in Newark, New Jersey, on Canada 46 2-4-1-39-0 91 231 Czech Republic 14 6-3-1-6-1 43 44 Saturday (May 4) and flew to Germany that evening. Team USA arrived at the Frankfurt Czechoslovakia 38 8-2-0-25-3 76 194 airport Sunday (May 5) morning and after gathering its luggage, took a charter bus to Denmark 7 5-0-1-1-0 26 12 Mannheim. The U.S. practiced both Sunday and Monday (May 6) and had one pre- East Germany 10 2-0-0-5-3 39 40 tournament game, a 5-2 win over Germany, in Mannheim on Tuesday (May 7). The Finland 63 22-1-2-30-8 188 222 U.S. flew with Team Germany to Kosice from airport Baden Baden Wednesday morning France 10 9-0-0-1-0 43 15 (May 8) and had its first practice at Steel Arena in Kosice Thursday (May 9) ... A handful Germany 17 9-0-1-4-3 49 37 of players went bowling in Kosice on Wednesday (May 8). Word is the average score Great Britain 4 2-0-0-0-2 22 14 was around 135 ... A total of nine players from the bronze medal-winning 2018 U.S. Hungary 2 2-0-0-0-0 8 1 Men's National Team return this year, including , , Italy 8 5-1-0-2-0 26 17 Quinn Hughes Alec Martinez Alex Japan 2 2-0-0-0-0 15 2 DeBrincat, Johnny Gaudreau, Patrick Kane, Chris Kreider, Dylan Larkin, Derek Kazakhstan 3 1-2-0-0-0 17 5 Ryan, and Colin White ... Dale Tallon, a member of the U.S. Men's National Team Korea 1 1-0-0-0-0 13 1 Advisory Group, was with Team USA in Europe on its world championship journey from Latvia 14 9-1-0-3-1 44 29 May 4-14 ... Quinn and Jack Hughes took time out to drop by "Dreger's Cafe" on May Netherlands 3 3-0-0-0-0 31 10 11 and visit with host Darren Dreger of TSN for 10 minutes. The Cafe set-up was in Old Norway 19 18-0-0-1-0 124 41 Town near the team's hotel ... Frank Vatrano played baseball from grades 2-10. He was Poland 17 14-0-0-2-1 91 40 a catcher as a kid and moved to the outfield in high school ..