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WNT Players Team Up With East Coast Wizards for ADM

09/22/2014, 5:00pm MDT
By Justin A. Rice - Special to USAHockey.com

BEDFORD, Mass. — Moments before hitting the ice for a Sunday-night USA Hockey youth clinic at The Edge Sports Center of Bedford, Katie Athanasoulas and her best friend, Jaime Griswold, explained why they are dressing up as the Lamoureux twins for Halloween.

“We love watching them,” Athanasoulas said of United States Olympians and twin sisters Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, without realizing Monique Lamoureux was standing behind her.

“Katie, this is Monique Lamoureux,” Jaime’s mother, two-time Olympian AJ Mleczko Griswold, interrupted.

“Hi, I heard you are going to be me for Halloween,” Lamoureux said while the two speechless girls looked up in awe.

“And you know what they said?” Mleczko Griswold added. “They said ‘I don’t want your old jerseys, mom. I want Monique and Jocelyne’s jerseys.’”

After the exchange, the 8-year-old girls, who play with the East Coast Wizards, joined about 65 to 70 of their male and female peers from the Wizards program for the 50-minute clinic. Led by 10 to 15 Wizards coaches, the clinic featured USA Hockey’s age-appropriate skill-development program known as the American Development Model.

USA Hockey ADM Regional Manager Michele Amidon, Monique Lamoureux and her U.S. Olympic teammate, Hilary Knight, also helped conduct cross-ice drills that divided the rink into four smaller areas and gave each child a chance to handle the puck more.

“It’s a great way for us to give back and be accessible to these girls, because we remember when we were this age, and being able to be on the ice with your role models is pretty cool,” said Knight, noting that it’s also a welcomed break from training. “Absolutely, it’s a different mentality. It’s all fun and games and you get to meet different coaches and the younger generation coming up.”

The Edge was one of the rinks the U.S. National Team trained at in the run up to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, where the Americans won a silver medal.

“The Edge and [manager] Scott Fusco, they’ve been really good to us, especially some of us post-grads that have been skating here in the summer and the fall,” Lamoureux said. “So I figure they’re good to us, we want to be good to them. It’s good to give back — especially with the Wizards teams; they have 21 girls’ teams, which is unbelievable. So it’s good to work with the younger girls.”

Mleczko Griswold, who coaches in the Wizards’ program, was on the ice as well and said skating with Lamoureux and Knight meant the world to her daughter Jaime and son, Sam.

“For my children, the fact that I played on the [national] team is lost on them,” said Mleczko Griswold, who lives in Concord, Mass., and has two other children. “It was before they were around. I’m not sure they can really appreciate it … for them to play with these players, it’s far cooler than for them to play with their mom.

“I think for [the Olympians] to go out there, it gives them something to aspire to. It gives them something to work hard for; it makes them realize there are so many things to work hard toward. Whether they make that level or not, I think it’s important for little kids to have role models to look up to. And speaking for me, I only had male hockey players as role models, so I love it.”

Amidon said part of the reason the clinic was conducted for the Wizards is because they have implemented much of the ADM methodology so well.

“This association has been on the cutting edge of doing a lot of the right things, so USA Hockey just wants to show our support and support the East Coast Wizards and get the message out there,” Amidon said.

“They implement a lot of age-appropriate aspects of development; they play cross-ice hockey at the younger ages, they use station-based practices, they have a lot of high-end coaches on the ice, they educate their parents. On and on and on I could talk about them.”

Michael Lambert has three children on Wizards’ teams and also coaches in the program.

“This is great. They get a lot of touches and they all come off with a smile on their face,” he said. “It’s great. They watch [Knight and Lamoureux] on TV, they have their posters, and to actually be on the same sheet of ice with them is a treat.”

He also said the Wizards are committed to small-ice hockey.  

“Every team practice you split a sheet of ice with another team,” he said, “and they’ve been doing that for years, and they are committed to ensuring that the kids get a lot of ice time and touches.”

But Amidon, who also conducted a short coaching seminar before the clinic, said even ADM front-runners can improve, especially because the coaches are usually parents who follow their kids through the ranks.

“So it’s constant coaching education,” she said. “We kind of use the example that if you were running a corporation and you used business techniques from 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, you’d be out of business. So you have to keep up with the times. The game has changed, and we know more than we used to know.”

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STOCKHOLM - The U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team posted a 10-0 win over Sweden here tonight at Stora Mossen Arena to advance to the semifinal round of the 2011 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's U18 Championship. Team USA finished the preliminary round atop Group B with a 3-0-0-0 record and will play in the semifinals on Friday (Jan. 7).

Alex Carpenter (North Reading, Mass.) andEmily Field (Littleton, Mass.) each tallied two goals and two asssists, while Amanda Pelkey(Montpelier, Vt.) added four helpers in the win.

"We did a very good job of being consistent and staying on our game for the entire 60 minutes," said Jodi McKenna, head coach for Team USA. "Again, it was a good demonstration of the depth of our lineup."

The U.S. built up an early 4-0 lead in the opening frame, with the first goal coming at 5:31 when Hannah Brandt (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) beat Swedish netminder Sofia Carlstrom with a rebound from the left goal line. Twenty-one seconds later, after Sweden was called for tripping, Carpenter completed a give and go with Haley Skarupa (Rockville, Md.) to make it 2-0.

Carpenter then struck again at 10:28, as she stickhandled through the left faceoff circle around Swedish players and fired a wrist shot into the near corner. Brandt also notched her second goal of the period when she swooped in on a loose puck in front of the Swedish net during a U.S. power play and found the open right side of the goal at 13:27.

On a power play early in the middle stanza, Field knocked in Pelkey's rebound for a 5-0 score at 2:58. The Americans added a pair of goals in the closing minutes of the period to open their lead to 7-0. Sydney Daniels (Southwick, Mass.) netted her third goal of the tournament with a low shot at 16:57, then Paige Savage (Carrollton, Texas) notched her first when she sniped a shot from the left faceoff circle at 18:20.

The Americans added three goals in the third period, first from Milicia McMillen (St. Paul, Minn.) at the 5:00 mark. Layla Marvin (Warroad, Minn.) then put one in at 11:43 when she skated in from the blue line and took a low shot from the slot. Field closed out the scoring with her second goal of the game at 17:14 after Brandt sent her a pass from behind the Swedish net and Field knocked it high glove side.

Megan Miller (Long Grove, Ill.) stopped all four shots she faced for the shutout, while Carlstrom and Elin Moberg combined for 50 saves in net for Sweden.

NOTES: The U.S. outshot Sweden, 55-4 ... Team USA was 3-for-6 on the power play, while Sweden was 0-for-4 ... Thirteen U.S. players factored in the scoring, with six having multi-point games ... The eight-nation tournament, being played for the fourth time, includes Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States ... Team USA captured gold in each of the first two years of the tournament (2008, 2009), followed by a silver medal in 2010 ...Jodi McKenna, the head women's ice hockey coach at Wesleyan Univeristy, is serving as head coach for Team USA. She is assisted by Brian Durocher, head women's ice hockey coach at Boston University, and Jennifer Kranz, assistant women's ice hockey coach at St. Cloud State University ...Follow @USAHockeyScores on Twitter for live scoring updates during the 2011 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship. Scores will be designated with #U18wwc ... Follow the U.S. Women's National Program blog here... Find USA Hockey on Facebook at Facebook.com/USAHockey and Twitter at Twitter.com/USAHockey.

GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period

USA 4 3 3 -- 10
SWE 0 0 0 -- 0

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Brandt (Field, Pelkey), 5:31; 2, USA, Carpenter (Skarupa), 5:52 (pp); 3, USA, Carpenter (Burke), 10:28; 4, USA, Brandt (Pelkey, Field), 13:27 (pp). Penalties: SWE, Kjellbin (body checking), 1:24; SWE, Lowenhielm (tripping), 5:42; SWE, Daniels (tripping), tripping), 12:14; USA, Savage (tripping), 15:11.

Second Period - Scoring: 5, USA, Field (Pelkey, Burke), 2:58 (pp); 6, USA, Daniels (Boulier, Ness), 16:57; 7, USA, Savage (Carpenter), 18:20. Penalties: SWE, Hedin (delay of game), 1:56; USA, Trivigno (boarding), 8:16; USA, Sylvester (holding the stick), 9:48; SWE, Johansson (delay of game), 9:48; SWE, Peterson (cross checking), 19:46.

Third Period - Scoring: 8, USA, McMillen (Carpenter, Savage), 5:00; 9, USA, Marvin (Sylvester, Burke), 11:43; 10, USA, Field (Brandt, Pelkey), 17:14. Penalties: SWE, Lowenhielm (tripping), 1:57; USA, Stecklein (delay of game), 6:45; USA, Burke (body checking), 19:21.

Shots by Period 1 2 3 Total

USA 19 21 15 53
SWE 1 1 2 4
         
Goaltenders (SH/SV) 1 2 3 Total
USA, Miller, 60:00 1-1 1-1 2-2 4-4
SWE, Carlstrom, 38:20 19-15 17-14 x-x 36-29
SWE, Moberg, 21:40 x-x 4-4 15-12 19-16

Power Play: USA 3-6; SWE 0-4
Penalties: USA 5-10; SWE 7-14
Officials: Referee-Sylena Mutsaers (CAN); Linesmen-Jonna Partanen (FIN), Zsuzsanna Sandor (HUN)

Fifteen U.S. Players Factor in Scoring; Team USA Outshoots Russia 67-3

01/07/2008, 1:15pm MST
By U18 Women's World Champs

CALGARY, Alta. – Led by a Madison Packer (Birmingham, Mich.) hat trick and goals from eight different players, the U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team posted a convincing 11-0 victory over Russia in the first game of the inaugural 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's U18 Championship here tonight at the Father David Bauer Arena. Team USA held a 67-3 shots advantage in the game.

"We played okay and got better as the game went on," said Katey Stone, head coach for Team USA and also the head women's hockey coach at Harvard University. "We know we can come out faster and finish faster. We got our feet under us and hope to play the way we're capable of playing in the next game."

Team USA controlled play for the majority of the opening 20 minutes and gained a 20-0 shots advantage over the Russians. Meagan Mangene (Manorville, N.Y.), the youngest member of the American team, put the United States on the board first at the 7:34 mark during the lone power-play opportunity of the first frame. Brooke Ammerman (River Vale, N.J.) left a drop pass for Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis.) in the left faceoff circle and Decker sent it to Mangene, who wristed it past Russian netminder Anna Vinogradova.

The United States took a 2-0 lead at 11:21 of the period when Anne Schleper's (St. Cloud, Minn.) shot from the mid-slot was tipped in at the crease by Packer. Team USA tallied once more at 13:03 to take a 3-0 advantage into the second stanza when captain Sarah Erickson (LaPorte, Minn.) flipped in a shot from the bottom of the slot off a pass fromAmanda Kessel (Madison, Wis.) in the corner.

The second period saw Team USA take a 7-0 lead. Packer scored her second of the outing just 2:02 into the stanza when she slipped Kelley Steadman's (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) rebound inside the near post from the right side of the net. Ashley Cottrell (Sterling Heights, Mich.) was next to score for the United States, as she put one between the legs of Vinogradova off a pass from Kasey Boucher (Lewiston, Maine) at 11:29, which prompted a switch to Julia Leskina in net for Russia.

Using a pair of power plays late in the second, the U.S. team tallied another pair of goals. The first was a one-timer by Schleper from the right point at 16:33 during a 5-on-3, while the second was a one-timer blasted in by Sasha Sherry (Lehighton, Pa.) at 18:29.

The final frame included another four Team USA goals to account for the 11-0 final score. Cottrell scored at 3:57 when her wrist shot from the slot beat Leskina stick side, then Kessel tallied less than a minute later at 4:38 for a nine-goal U.S. lead. The final two goals came from Kate Bacon (Chanhassen, Minn) at 8:37 and Packer at 11:09 to complete her hat trick.

The United States returns to action tomorrow night (Jan. 8) against Switzerland at 4:15 p.m. MT.

NOTES: Madison Packer was named the U.S. Player of the Game ... Alyssa Grogan(Eagan, Minn.) and Rebecca Ruegsegger (Lakewood, Colo.) combined for the U.S. shutout with a total of three saves ... Team USA went 3-for-4 on the power play and was never penalized in the game ... Eight different players had multiple-point nights ... All eight of the goal-scorers recorded their first career U.S. goals ... Joining Katey Stone on the coaching staff as assistant coaches are Erin Whitten Hamlen, associate women’s ice hockey coach at the University of New Hampshire, and Bob Deraney, head women’s ice hockey coach at Providence College.

GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period
USA  3  4  4 -- 11
RUS  0  0  0 --   0

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Mangene (Decker, Schleper), 7:34 (pp); 2, USA, Packer (Schleper, Steadman), 11:21; 3, USA, Erickson (Kessel, Kelter), 13:03. Penalties: RUS, Padyanova (hooking), 5:36.

Second Period - Scoring: 4, USA, Packer (Steadman, Cottrell), 2:02; 5, USA, Cottrell (Boucher, Packer), 11:29; 6, USA Schleper (Kelter, Ammerman), 16:33 (5x3pp); 7, USA, Sherry (Wild, Steadman), 18:29 (pp). Penalties: RUS, Mitrofanova (body-checking), 15:35; RUS, Dyubanok (charging), 16:24.

Third Period - Scoring: 8, USA, Cottrell (unassisted), 3:57; 9, USA, Kessel (Stearns), 4:38; 10, USA, Bacon (Stearns), 8:37; 11, USA, Packer (unassisted), 11:09. Penalties: RUS, Team (too many players on the ice), 54:28.

Shots by Period    1    2    3    Total
USA                  20   27  20       67
RUS                    0     2    1         3  

Goaltenders (SH/SV)                 1           2         3         Total
USA, Grogan, 30:05                 0-0        2-2      x-x           2-2 
USA, Ruegsegger, 29:55           x-x        0-0      1-1           1-1
RUS, Vinogradova, 31:29      20-17   17-15      x-x        37-32
RUS, Leskina, 28:31                  x-x      10-8  20-16       30-24

Power Play: USA 3-4; RUS 0-0
Penalties: USA 0-0; RUS 4-8
Officials: Referee-Anu Hirvonen (FIN); Linesmen-Denise Caughey (CAN), Bianca Schipper (NED)

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)

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