United States 3-2 Sweden 
National Junior Evaluation Camp
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Three different U.S. players scored and both Logan Brown and Casey Mittelstadt had multi-point games for the second-straight night as Team USA earned a 3-2 victory over Sweden here today at the World Junior Summer Showcase.

“Tonight we saw a different kind of fight in our players,” said Bob Motzko, head coach of the 2018 U.S. National Junior Team. “Having talent and skill is one thing, but having the will to grind out a win is an intangible our staff was excited to see. We’ll enjoy tomorrow off and get ready for two great games to close out the Showcase.”

The U.S. returns to action Friday when it takes on Finland.

Sweden opened the scoring with 3:53 remaining in the opening frame when Lias Andersson snuck a wrist shot past Keith Petruzzelli from the top right circle.

Team USA evened the score 5:16 into the second stanza when Riley Tufte fired a snap shot by Sweden’s goaltender Filip Larsson. The play started when Mittelstadt sent the puck down low to Brown, who found Tufte alone in front of the net for the tying goal.

Kailer Yamamoto gave the U.S. its first lead of the game when he found a rebound off an initial shot from Brown and one-timed it in at the 10:11 mark. Sweden netted the equalizer 2:18 later when Andersson tallied his second goal of the game.

With 5:50 remaining in the period, Quinn Hughes scored on a long-ranged wrist shot from the blue line to give the U.S. a 3-2 lead while on the power play.

Petruzzelli stopped 15 of 16 shots he faced in 30:11 of action before Dylan St. Cyr made 21 saves in relief.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:13 –  PEN – Farrance, tripping
16:07 –  GOAL – Andersson (Gustafsson)

2nd Period
22:30 –  PEN – Harper, hooking
25:16 –  GOAL – Tufte (Brown, Mittelstadt)
30:11 –  GOAL – Yamamoto (Kemp, Farrance)
30:53 –  PEN – Greenway, interference
32:29 –  PP GOAL – Andersson (Karlström)
32:51 –  PEN – Högberg, slashing
34:10 –  PP GOAL – Hughes (Bellows, Mittelstadt)
37:05 –  PEN – Greenway, cross checking

3rd Period
44:44 –  PEN – Lindström, holding
49:19 –  PEN – Greenway, tripping
51:17 –  PEN – Moverare, tripping

GOALTENDERS
W: Petruzzelli (15-16), St. Cyr (21-22)
L:  Larsson (19-22)

SHOTS ON GOAL
3+12+7 = 22
 14+9+15 = 38

ROSTERS
 Goaltenders: Keith Petruzzelli, Dylan St. Cyr. Defence: David Farrance, J.D. Greenway, Quinn Hughes, Phil Kemp, Luke Martin, Andrew Peeke, Dylan Samberg. Forwards: Jack Badini, Kieffer Bellows, Logan Brown, Sasha Chmelevski, Logan Cockerill, Trent Frederic, Max Gerlach, Tim Gettinger, Patrick Harper, Casey Mittelstadt, Josh Norris, Riley Tufte, Kailer Yamamoto.
 Goaltenders: Filip Gustavsson, Filip Larsson. Defence: Linus Högberg, Timothy Liljegren, Gustav Lindström, Jacob Moverare, Jesper Sellgren, Filip Westerlund. Forwards: Lias Andersson, Jesper Boqvist, Marcus Davidsson, Glenn Gustafsson, Rickard Hugg, Axel Jonsson-Fjällby, Fredrik Karlström, Elias Pettersson, Tim Söderlund, Oskar Steen, Tim Wahlgren.

UNITED STATES (C)	vs.	SWEDEN
current champion (since 01/05/2017)	Last Title	01/04/2017
34	All-Time Wins	92
8 wins	Head-To-Head (+ 2 ties)	6 wins
First IHLC Meeting (USA vs. SWE)  SWE 5-5 USA  – 12/28/1979 – WJC – Vantaa
Previous IHLC Meeting (USA vs. SWE)  SWE 1-0 USA  – 12/28/2015 – WJC – Helsinki
Last IHLC Game  USA 5-4 CAN  (SO) – 01/05/2017 – WJC – Montréal
Next IHLC Game  USA 4-3 FIN  – 08/04/2017 – NJC – Plymouth

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