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U22 Gameday Preview: USA vs. Canada

08/22/2014, 1:30pm MDT
By USAHockey.com

The U.S. Women’s Under-22 Select Team came out strong in game one of the 2014 Under-22 Series, defeating Canada 3-2. Emily Pfalzer lead the way with a pair of assists while Shiann Darkangelo and Dana Trivigno each had one goal. Alex Carpenter and Annie Pankowski both notched assists and Alex Rigsby was stellar in net with 26 saves.

The U.S. and Canada are meeting for the eleventh time at the Women’s Under-22 Series. Team USA holds a 11-2-3-13-2 record against Canada and has outscored their opponent 93-71 overall.

Ken Klee is the head coach of the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team and is assisted by Robb Stauber, Bob Deraney and Brett Strot. All time, Klee is the seventh head coach for Team USA at the Under-22 Series. He earned his first win as a Team USA head coach in the opener. Carpenter is serving as team captain and the alternate captains are Michelle Picard and Lee Stecklein.

Members of Team USA represent 12 different states. Minnesota and New York lead the pack with four representatives each, while Michigan and Massachusetts each have three. California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin each have one representative. 

Gallery: Game One of Under-22 Series vs. Canada

Schedule for U22 Series

DATE OPPONENT RESULT/RECAP
Aug. 21 Canada W, 2-1
Aug. 22 Canada W, 6-0
Aug. 24 Canada W, 3-2

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U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team Blanks Czech Republic, 15-0, at IIHF World Women's U18 Championship

03/30/2010, 3:15pm MDT
By U18 Women's World Champs

WOODRIDGE, Ill. - Haley Skarupa (Rockville, Md.) registered six points (2-4), while Alex Carpenter (North Reading, Mass.) and Kendall Coyne (Palos Heights, Ill.) each netted four goals, to lead the U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team to a 15-0 win over the Czech Republic here tonight at the 2010 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's U18 Championship in Walter Bush Rink. With the win, the U.S. won its group with a 3-0-0-0 record (W-OTW-OTL-L) and advanced to the semifinal round on Friday (April 2).

"We started fast and moved well both with and without the puck," said Katie King, Team USA's head coach. "I'm proud of the way we played and we're very excited for our next game in the semifinals."

The U.S. tallied five goals in the first period, including two from Carpenter. Coyne opened the game's scoring on the power play at 2:03 after her shot from the bottom of the left circle beat Czech goaltender Lenka Craigova on the short side. Thirty seconds later,Lyndsey Fry (Chandler, Ariz.) doubled the U.S. lead with goal through the goaltender's legs. At 6:42, Brittany Ammerman (River Vale, N.J.) collected the puck along the right boards and cut toward the net before snapping a shot over the netminder's glove.

Carpenter scored the next two U.S. goals to close out the period's scoring. The first was on her own rebound at 8:21 and the second came at 15:28 when she used a deke to beat a pair of Czech defenders and put a low shot to the blocker side of new goaltender Veronika Hladikova.

Team USA scored six goals in the second period to take an 11-0 lead. Meghan Lorence (Mounds View, Minn.) scored her first goal of the tournament when she redirected a cross-ice pass at 1:49. With a slap shot from the left circle, Carpenter netted her third marker of the game at 8:16, and Skarupa tallied on the power play 59 seconds later. Team USA garnered its third power-play goal of the game when Carpenter snapped the puck off the left post and into the net at 15:58. Coyne scored the next two U.S. goals :24 apart to close out the frame's scoring.

In the final stanza, the U.S. potted four more goals to defeat the Czech Republic, 15-0. Taylor Wasylk (Port Huron, Mich.) scored on the power play after a give-and-go play at 4:39. Coyne tallied her fourth of the game 56 seconds later, and Marissa Gedman (Framingham, Mass.) netted a goal off a slap shot at 9:18. Skarupa finished off the scoring by sending a cross-ice pass to the back of the net at 11:24.

U.S. netminder Aubree Moore (Bowie, Md.) turned aside 16 shots for her first career U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team shutout.

Team USA will play the winner of the quarterfinal match-up between Sweden and Japan on Friday (April 2) at 7:30 p.m. CT.

NOTES: Haley Skarupa was named Team USA's player of the game ... The U.S. was 4-for-7 on the power play, while the Czech Republic was 0-for-3 ... Team USA has not allowed a power-play goal in the tournament (14-14) ... Kendall Coyne (9-0) and Skarupa (3-6) pace the U.S. with nine points each ...  All tournament games are available via live webstream at USAHockey.FASTHockey.com... Tournament photos are available at ImagesOnIce.net... The IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, which is being held for the first time on U.S. soil at the Seven Bridges Ice Arena, is being held for the third time ... The eight-nation tournament includes Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Japan, Russia, Sweden and the United States ... The U.S. is the two-time defending world champion, after capturing gold in Füssen, Germany, in 2009, and in Calgary in 2008 ... Katie King, three-time Olympian and head women's hockey coach at Boston College, is Team USA's head coach, with Shelley Looney, two-time Olympian and girls'/women's hockey director for the New Jersey Colonials, and Catherine Hanson, former U.S. Women's National Team member who spent seven seasons as an assistant women's hockey coach at The Ohio State University, serving as assistant coaches ... For more information on the 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, visit Chicago2010Hockey.com.


GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period

CZE 0 - 0 - 0 - 0
USA 5 - 6 - 4 - 15

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Coyne (Mangene, Picard), 2:03 (pp); 2, USA, Fry (Bizzari, Gedman), 2:33; 3, USA, Ammerman (Hickel), 6:42; 4, USA, Carpenter (unassisted), 8:41; 5, USA, Carpenter (Skarupa), 15:38. Penalties: CZE, Vonkova (hooking), 1:55; USA, Bona (body checking), 4:54; CZE, Vytiskova (body checking), 6:06; CZE, Kuzelova (cross-checking), 8:56; USA, Fry (hooking), 11:45.

Second Period - Scoring: 6. USA, Lorence (Skarupa, Figueroa), 1:49; 7, USA, Carpenter (Lorence, Skarupa), 8:16; 8, USA, Skarupa (Pfalzer), 11:24 (pp); 9, USA, Carpenter (Picard, Mangene), 15:58 (pp); 10, USA, Coyne (unassisted), 16:05; 11, USA, Coyne (Wasylk, Pfalzer), 16:39. Penalties: CZE, Kubatova (cross-checking), 2:36; USA, Bona (hooking), 6:00; CZE, Solnickova (body checking), 10:25; CZE, Novakova (hooking), 15:44.

Third Period - Scoring: 12, USA, Wasylk (Pelkey), 4:29 (pp); 13, USA, Coyne (Mangene, Skarupa), 5:35; 14, USA, Gedman (Pfalzer, Ammerman), 9:18; 15, USA, Skarupa (Lorence), 11:24. Penalties: CZE, Eibinova (interference), 3:46.

Shots by Period 1 2 3 Total

CZE 7 6 3 16
USA 26 19 22 67
         
Goaltenders (SH/SV) 1 2 3 Total
CZE, Craigova, 28:41 9-5 x-x 22-18 31-23
CZE, Hladikova, 31:19 17-16 19-13 x-x 36-29
USA, Moore, 60:00 7-7 6-6 3-3 16-16

Power Play: CZE 0-3; USA 4-7
Penalties: CZE 7-12; USA 3-6
Officials: Referee-Paivi Laurla (FIN); Linesmen-Therese Bjorkman (SWE), Helene Roy (CAN)

U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team Blanks Germany, 11-0

01/07/2009, 11:30am MST
By U18 Women's World Champs

FUSSEN, Germany – Eight different players scored and Madison Packer (Birmingham, Mich.) and Amanda Kessel (Madison, Wis.) each accounted for three points, as the U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team blanked host Germany, 11-0, here tonight at the 2009 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's U18 Championship at the Fussen Arena.

With the victory, Team USA holds a 2-0-0-0 record (W-OTW-OTL-L) heading into tomorrow night's (Jan. 7) third and final preliminary-round game against Sweden at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. EST).

"Overall, having played back-to-back games, we executed some good plays," said Team USA Head Coach Mark Johnson, who is also the head women's ice hockey coach at the University of Wisconsin. "The competition will get tougher starting tomorrow against Sweden - we've played two good games, but now we'll have the opportunity to really make some strides."

The U.S. squad opened the game by netting four goals in the first 20 minutes of play. AfterLyndsey Fry (Chandler, Ariz.) potted her third goal of the tournament to give Team USA an early 1-0 lead at 2:50, Kessel doubled the U.S. lead when she stole the puck during a German two-man advantage, skated the length of the ice, switched to her backhand in front of the net and put a shot above goalie Janna Ramajzl's stick side at 6:20.

The score went to 3-0 at 10:48, as Packer found Brittany Ammerman (River Vale, N.J.) at the top of the crease for a quick dump in. Ammerman then found the back of the net again at 14:38, this time after Megan Bozek (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) brought the puck in from center ice and took a hard shot from the left-side goal line. Bozek's rebound found its way to Ammerman, who tapped it in from the right post.

The Americans increased their lead to 9-0 with five more goals in the middle frame, starting with a pair of tallies 10 seconds apart in the first minute of play. Taylor Wasylk(Port Huron, Mich.) opened the period scoring at :45, followed 10 seconds later by Packer's second of the outing on a backhand shot. Caroline Campbell (Fordland, Mo.) was next to score for the United States, finding the top left corner with a slap shot from the right point at 11:08. Fry scored a second of her own at 13:26, as she put one between the legs of new German netminder Jule Flotgen. Jackie Young (Medford, Mass.) closed out the stanza with a power-play sniper from the top of the right faceoff circle to make it 9-0.

Wasylk and Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis.) capped off the scoring in the third period at 8:30 and 13:17, respectively, to account for the 11-0 final score.

Corinne Boyles (Wheaton, Ill.) made eight saves to earn the shutout victory in net for Team USA.

NOTES: Taylor Wasylk was named U.S. Player of the Game ... Team USA out shot Germany, 73-8 ... The United States went 1-for-6 on the power play, while Germany was 0-for-3 ... Amanda Kessel leads the tournament with nine points (4-5) in two games.Madison Packer ranks second with seven points (2-5) ... Joining Mark Johnson on the coaching staff as assistant coaches are Katie King, head women’s ice hockey coach at Boston College, and Jeff Giesen, head women’s ice hockey coach at St. Cloud State University.

GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period

USA 4 5 2 -- 11
GER 0 0 0 -- 0

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Fry (unassisted), 2:50; 2, USA, Kessel (unassisted), 6:20 (3x5sh); 3, USA, Ammerman (Packer), 10:48; 4, USA, Ammerman (Bozek), 14:38. Penalties: GER, Rothemund (hooking), 3:23; USA, Packer (tripping), 5:03; USA, Pelkey (hooking), 5:47; GER, Anwander (hooking), 6:47; GER, Weisser (tripping), 17:33.

Second Period - Scoring: 5, USA, Wasylk (unassisted), :45; 6, USA, Packer (unassisted), :55; 7, USA, Campbell (Dempsey), 11:08; 8, USA, Fry (unassisted), 13:26 (4x4); 9, USA, Young (Kessel), 18:19 (pp). Penalties: USA, Decker (body checking), 13:05; GER, Eisenschmid (body checking), 13:05; USA, Brock (slashing), 13:52; GER, Strohmaier (interference), 17:34.

Third Period - Scoring: 10, USA, Wasylk (Kessel), 8:30; 11, USA, Decker (Packer), 13:17. Penalties: USA, Campbell (tripping), 3:53; USA, Fry (delay of game), 5:52; GER, Pokopec (tripping), 16:46; USA, Packer (slashing), 17:08; GER, Novotny (interference), 17:58.

Shots by Period 1 2 3 Total
USA 22 31 20 73
GER 3 2 3 8       

Goaltenders (SH/SV) 1 2 3 Total
USA, Boyles, 60:00 3-3 2-2 3-3 8-8
GER, Ramajzl, 24:28 22-18 7-5 x-x 29-23
GER, Flotgen, 35:32 x-x 24-21 20-18 44-39

Power Play: USA 1-6; GER 0-5
Penalties: USA 7-14; GER 7-14
Officials: Referee-Marie Picavet (FRA); Linesmen-Annika Floeden (SWE), Evelyn Loretan (SUI)

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