Game Report 524

World Under-17 Hockey Challenge

PLAYED AT: Civic Centre
Date: Dec 29, 2013
GAME NOTES: U.S. GETS 60 SHOTS, HAMMERS RUSSIA TO OPEN U17 TOURNAMENT by Jason La Rose PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. – Brendan Warren and Michael Floodstrand had a goal and an assist each as the United States opened its Group B schedule at the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge with a 5-1 win over Russia on Sunday afternoon. The Russians had beaten the U.S. in their last two high-profile match-ups at the tournament, the 2012 gold medal game and last year’s semifinals, but this one was all about the Americans and their offence. Noah Hanifin, Auston Matthews and Colin White also scored for the U.S. (1-0), which fired an impressive 60 shots at Russian netminder Ilya Samsonov, including 25 in the third period when it broke open a 2-0 game. Artur Tyanulin had the lone goal for Russia (0-1), on a third-period power play. The Americans opened the scoring 13 minutes into the first period, off the stick of Warren, and Hanifin doubled the lead late in the second; those were the only two pucks to beat Samsonov in the first 40 minutes, despite 35 U.S. shots on goal. The teams traded goals in the early part of the third period; Matthews extended the American lead to 3-0 at 1:45 before Tyanulin ended Michael Lackey’s shutout bid on a Russian man advantage at 4:40. The U.S. shooting gallery resulted in two more goals in the latter half of the final frame, from White, on the power play, at 11:37 and Floodstrand at 16:26 to provide the final margin of victory. The Americans are back in action Monday afternoon (2 p.m. AT), when they face Germany in North Sydney, N.S., while the Russians don’t see the ice again until their Tuesday matinee (2 p.m. AT) against the Germans in Port Hawkesbury.

Visiting Team: Russia

Home Team: United States

RUSSIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Kolesnikov, Nikita
G	29	Volkov, Konstantin
G	30	Samsonov, Ilya
	2	Platonov, Alexey
	3	Sidorov, Mikhai
	5	Fatkullin, Timur
	7	Rykov, Egor
	8	Kozyrev, Aleksandr
	9	Vladimirov, Artem
	11	Kvartalnov, Danila
	12	Ivanyuzhenkov, Artem
	13	Tyanulin, Artur
	14	Byakin, Mikhail
	16	Zhebelev, Aleksandr
	17	Nesterov, Andrei
	18	Alekseev, Denis
	19	Kashtanov, Ivan
	22	Bannikov, Andrei
	23	Tsukanov, Denis
	24	Emets, Ivan
	25	Gurianov, Denis
	27	Zhukenov, Dmitry
	28	Rozhkovskiy, Artem

RUSSIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	5	2:00	(auto) Interference minor	8:22	1		8:22	13:38
2nd	3	2:00	Tripping minor	9:27	1		9:27	12:33
2nd	25	2:00	(auto) Boarding minor	16:24	1		16:24	5:36
3rd	2	2:00	(auto) High-Sticking minor	1:58	1		1:58	0:02
3rd	22	2:00	Roughing minor	7:06	1		7:06	14:54
3rd	13	2:00	(auto) Interference minor	11:21	1		11:21	10:39

UNITED STATES LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	31	Lackey, Michael
G	33	Opilka, Luke
	34	Matthews, Auston
	36	White, Colin
	37	Bracco, Jeremy
	38	Greenway, Jordan
	39	Werenski, Zach
	40	Warren, Brendan
	41	McAvoy, Charles
	42	Masonius, Joseph
	44	Kirwan, Luke
	45	Boka, Nicholas
	46	Kunin, Luke
	47	Tkachuk, Matthew
	48	Roslovic, Jack
	50	Floodstrand, Michael
	51	Evers, Christian
	52	Stevens, Brody
	55	Hanifin, Noah
	56	Jones, Caleb
	57	Yan, Dennis
	58	Fitzgerald, Casey
	60	Fischer, Christian

UNITED STATES PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	38	2:00	Unsportsmanlike Conduct minor	16:38	1		16:38	5:22
1st	56	2:00	(auto) Interference minor	18:30	1		18:30	3:30
2nd	40	2:00	Tripping minor	4:25	1		4:25	17:35
2nd	51	2:00	(auto) Elbowing minor	6:35	1		6:35	15:25
2nd	55	2:00	(auto) Boarding minor	9:18	1		9:18	12:42
2nd	58	2:00	Slashing minor	13:48	1		13:48	8:12
2nd	42	2:00	(auto) Head Contact minor	16:19	1		16:19	5:41
2nd	42	10:00	(auto) Head Contact misconduct	16:19	1		16:19	13:41
2nd	37	2:00	Slashing minor	17:37	1		17:37	4:23
3rd	38	2:00	(auto) High-Sticking minor	4:02	1		4:02	17:58

RUSSIA Goals

RUSSIA PLAYERS (plus)

UNITED STATES PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

3rd

4:40

13-3-2

UNITED STATES Goals

UNITED STATES PLAYERS (plus)

RUSSIA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st