🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Germany 🇩🇪
Exhibition Game
SAP Arena, Mannheim 🇩🇪
Sunday, 10 May 2026

The U.S. Men’s National Team used goals from five different players on the way to a 5-2 win over Germany here tonight in its lone pre-tournament game ahead of the 2026 IIHF Men’s World Championship. The content was played before a lively and capacity crowd of 12,909 at SAP Arena.

The U.S. got the only marker of the opening period on a highlight-reel power play goal from Ryker Lee when he put a backhander into the top corner of the net from just in front of the goal line. Ryan Leonard and Justin Faulk drew assists on the play.

The U.S. went up 2-0 just 3:55 into the middle frame when Sam Lafferty put one home from out in front, and after Germany got to within a goal with 1:22 left in the period, Alex Steeves restored Team USA’s two-goal advantage from the bottom of the right circle with :17 left in the stanza.

Max Plante advanced the U.S. lead to 4-1 just 1:16 into the third period. Germany got to within 4-2 on Arkadisz Dziambor’s goal at 2:42, before an empty net goal from Mathieu Olivier accounted for the 5-2 final.

Joseph Woll played the first half of the game and did not allow a goal on 11 shots. Devin Cooley finished the contest and had 16 saves.

Team USA will open play in the 2026 IIHF Men’s World Championship on Friday 15 May against host Switzerland.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:45 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Cotter, holding the stick
13:16 – 🇩🇪 PEN – team, too many players
13:31 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – Lee (Leonard, Faulk)

2nd Period
20:25 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Wagner, hooking
23:55 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Lafferty (Carlile, Steeves)
34:26 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Hüttl, holding
35:30 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Leonard, interference
38:38 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Tuomie (Krämmer, Karrer)
39:43 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Steeves (Cotter, Olivier)

3rd Period
41:46 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Plante (Howard, Hagens)
42:42 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Dziambor (Gawanke, Michaelis)
48:26 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Seider, holding
48:31 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Hagens, tripping
56:44 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Dove-McFalls, tripping
56:54 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Lee, tripping
58:08 – 🇺🇸 EN GOAL – Olivier (Cotter)

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇺🇸 Woll (11-11), Cooley (16-18)
L: 🇩🇪 Grubauer (18-22)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇺🇸 9+10+4 = 23
🇩🇪 4+11+14 = 29

ROSTERS
🇺🇸 Goaltenders: Devin Cooley, Joseph Woll. Defence: Will Borgen, Declan Carlile, Connor Clifton, Justin Faulk (C), Wyatt Kaiser, Ryan Lindgren (A), Ryan Ufko. Forwards: Paul Cotter, James Hagens, Isaac Howard, Sam Lafferty, Ryker Lee, Ryan Leonard, Oliver Moore, Danny Nelson, Tommy Novak, Mathieu Olivier (A), Max Plante, Max Sasson, Alex Steeves.
🇩🇪 Goaltenders: Maximilian Franzreb, Philipp Grubauer, Leon Hungerecker. Defence: Arkadiusz Dziambor, Leon Gawanke, Leon Hüttl, Julius Karrer, Moritz Seider (C), Phillip Sinn, Fabio Wagner, Marcus Weber. Forwards: Dominik Bokk, Tim Brunnhuber, Samuel Dove-McFalls, Alexander Ehl, Daniel Fischbuch, Dominik Kahun (A), Maximilian Kastner, Nicolas Krämmer, Stefan Loibl, Marc Michaelis (A), Joshua Samanski, Parker Tuomie.

Article Credit: USA Hockey
Photo Credit: Eurosport – IIHF – HHOF – IOC