🇺🇸 United States 5-4 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Junior Summer Showcase
USA Hockey Arena, Plymouth 🇺🇸
Saturday, 03 August 2024

Team USA took down Canada in dramatic fashion with Brodie Ziemer’s goal in the sixth round of the shootout giving the U.S. a 5-4 victory.

Brandon Svoboda broke the ice 13:35 into the game, scoring off the rush after Max Plante picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone.

A.J. Spellacy added a second with 1:46 left in the opening frame, converting on a patient cross-crease pass from Beckett Hendrickson after Cole Hutson forced a turnover in the neutral zone.

Berkly Catton got the Canadians on the board 1:26 into the second with a power-play goal that bounced off the post and in.

Quentin Musty regained Team USA’s two-goal lead just over a minute later with a snipe from the right dot off a picture-perfect passing play with James Hagens. Logan Hensler earned an assist as well.

Jett Luchanko scored on the power-play with 1:30 left in the middle frame, getting a stick on an initial shot by Catton for the redirect at the goal mouth to make it 3-2, then Denver Barkey tied it up 6:48 into the final frame, scoring on an odd-man rush.

With the U.S. skating with a two-man advantage, Cole Eiserman fired a rocket from the bottom of the right faceoff circle after a feed from Cole Hutson to put Team USA back in the lead at 9:14.

Calum Ritchie evened the game on the power play for Canada with 7:46 left in regulation to force overtime, but neither team scored in 3-on-3 five-minute extra session and the game went to a shootout.

Each team scored once through the first five rounds – Bradly Nadeau for Canada and Musty for the U.S. After Nadeau was foiled by U.S. netminder Hampton Slukynsky in the top of the sixth round, Ziemer ended the game with a snipe that found its way inside the left post.

Slukynsky finished with 34 saves to pick up the win as the U.S. outshot Canada, 48-38.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
13:35 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Svoboda (Plante)
18:14 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Spellacy (Hendrickson, Hutson)
19:33 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Terrance, hooking

2nd Period
21:26 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Catton
22:43 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Musty (Hagens, Hensler)
23:59 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Schulz, interference
30:46 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Sennecke, hooking
34:26 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Ritchie, tripping
37:20 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Heidt, cross checking
37:20 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Spellacy, cross checking
38:21 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Musty, tripping
38:30 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Luchanko (Catton, Parekh)

3rd Period
42:23 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Sennecke, roughing
44:46 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Gibson, interference
46:48 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Barkey (Catton, Dickinson)
48:01 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Mynio, interference
48:21 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Nadeau, tripping
49:14 – 🇺🇸 PP2 GOAL – Eiserman (Hutson)
50:23 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Svoboda, slashing
52:14 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Ritchie (Nadeau, Iginla)

Overtime
none

Shootout
🇨🇦 Nadeau scored
🇺🇸 Eiserman missed
🇨🇦 Heidt missed
🇺🇸 Musty scored
🇨🇦 Cristall missed
🇺🇸 Hagens missed
🇨🇦 Martone missed
🇺🇸 Plante missed
🇨🇦 Luchanko missed
🇺🇸 Hutson missed
🇨🇦 Nadeau missed
🇺🇸 Ziemer scored

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇺🇸 Slukynsky (34-38)
L: 🇨🇦 Ravensbergen (17-20), Bjarnason (27-28)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇺🇸 17+11+18+2+1 = 49
🇨🇦 8+15+10+5+0 = 38

ROSTERS
🇺🇸 Goaltenders: Nick Kempf, Hampton Slukynsky. Defence: E.J. Emery, Paul Fischer, Logan Hensler, Cole Hutson, Adam Kleber, Aram Minnetian, Colin Ralph, Zach Schulz. Forwards: Cole Eiserman, James Hagens, Beckett Hendrickson, Quentin Musty, Chris Pelosi, Max Plante, Noah Powell, A.J. Spellacy, Brandon Svoboda, Mac Swanson, Carey Terrance, Brodie Ziemer.
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Carson Bjarnason, Joshua Ravensbergen. Defence: Noah Chadwick, Sam Dickinson, Andrew Gibson, Sawyer Mynio, Zayne Parekh, Carter Yakemchuk. Forwards: Denver Barkey, Cole Beaudoin, Berkly Catton, Andrew Cristall, Riley Heidt, Tij Iginla, Jett Luchanko, Porter Martone, Bradly Nadeau, Calum Ritchie, Beckett Sennecke, Malcolm Spence.

Article Credit: USA Hockey
Photo Credit: Daily Faceoff – IIHF – HHOF – IOC