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U.S. National Under-18 Team Takes On EJHL All-Stars

March 7, 2006 - North American Hockey League (NAHL)
U.S. National Team News Release


THIS WEEK: The U.S. National Under-18 Team travels to Foxboro, Mass., to take on the Eastern Junior Hockey League All-Stars on Wednesday and Thursday (Mar. 9) at 6:30 p.m. at the Foxboro Sports Complex.

U.S. HEAD COACH JOHN HYNES: John Hynes is in his third season with USA Hockey's National Team Development Program. Hynes has spent time as an assistant coach at the University of Massachuttes Lowell and the University of Wisconsin. Hynes has amassed a career record with the NTDP of 83-46-8.

USA HEAD COACH JOHN HYNES: "These two games are important as we come down the home stretch of the season. The all-stars will play a style similar to teams we will see at Worlds next month, as top players from various teams are brought together."

LAST TIME THEY MET ... Eastern Junior Hockey League All-Stars First Meeting

GAME NOTES: Only four games remain before Team USA travels to the World Under-18 Championships, ... the U.S. National Under-18 Team has added defenseman Cade Fairchild (Duluth, Minn.) and foward Ryan Hayes (Syracuse, N.Y.) from the U.S. National Under-17 Team ... Doug Rogers (Watertown, Mass.) was also added on forward. Rogers joins the team from St. Sebastians Preparatory School where he totaled 55 points (21-34-55) in 26 games.

USA PLAYER TIDBITS: Defenseman Chris Summers (Milan, Mich.) will make his first appearance at forward this season during this series ... Forward Chris Atkinson (Sparta, N.J.) will be out indefinately after suffering an injury Saturday night (Feb. 25) versus RIT. Atkinson plans to re-join the team in Foxboro this week, but will not play.

UP NEXT: The U.S. National Under-18 Team travels to Traverse City (Mich.) to take of the North Stars of the North American Hockey League North Division on Friday night (Mar. 17) at 7 p.m.

LAST WEEKEND: The weekend series in Springfield, Ill., versus the Jr. Blues of the NAHL saw the U.S. National Under-18 Team drop the first NAHL game this season following an undefeated streak of 17 games. On Saturday night (Mar. 4) Team USA was defeated 2-1 by Springfield preceeded by a 6-2 USA victory on Friday night.

Box scores from the weekend are below.

U.S. National Under-18 Team 1 at Springfield Jr. Blues 2

Scoring By Period USA 1-0-0 -- 1 SPR 0-2-0 -- 2

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Flynn (O'Brien, Kane), (pp) 4:14. Penalties: SPR, McQuinn (slashing), 3: 35; SPR, Conway (roughing), 5:42; USA, Rakhshani (roughing), 5:42; USA, Rakhshani (high sticking), 5:42; SPR, Globke (slashing), 17:11.

Second Period - Scoring: 2, SPR, Conway (Globke), 5: 34; 3, SPR, Keevan (Forselius, Gawrys), (pp) 11:28. Penalties: MV, Phelps (cross checking), 8:24; USA, Palmer (delay of game- served by Mosey), 10:37; SPR, Hewkin (holding), 13:40; USA, Carman (boarding), 15: 15.

Third Period - Scoring: No Scoring. Penalties: SPR, Conway (tripping), 2:00; SPR, Gawrys (slashing), 6:32; SPR, Phelps (holding), 11:09; USA, Summers (roughing), 11:09; USA, Summers (interference), 15:43; SPR, Phelps (hooking), 19:57.

Shots By Period 1 2 3 Total USA 16 9 13 38 SPR 5 9 7 21

Goaltending (SH-SV) 1 2 3 Total USA, Palmer (31:28) 5-5 4-2 x-x 9-7 USA, Bennett (28:31) x-x 5-5 7-7 12-12 SPR, Roy (60:00) 16-15 9-9 13-13 38-37

Power Play: USA 1-7; SPR 1-4 Penalties: USA 6-12; SPR 9-18 Attendance: 1,295 Officials: Referee- Mike Trzeciak

Friday, March 3: U.S. National Under-18 Team 6 at Springfield Jr. Blues 2

Scoring By Period USA 2-3-1 -- 6 SPR 2-0-0 -- 2

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Carman (Flynn, Kane), (pp) 3:05; 2, SPR, Phelps (Forselius, Keevan), (pp) 6: 14; 3, USA, Geoffrion (vanRiemsdyk), 12:21; 4, SPR, Phelps (Gawrys), (pp) 13:20. Penalties: SPR, McQuinn (tripping), 2:42; USA, Carman (hooking), 5:06; USA, Kane (hooking), 5:27; SPR, Staehely (roughing), 7: 29; USA, Strait (roughing), 7:29; USA, McBain (slashing), 10:01; USA, Sweatt (elbowing), 12:57.

Second Period - Scoring: 5, USA, Kane (Ratchuk), 0: 58; 6, USA, Rakhshani (McBain, Carman), (pp) 11:16; 7, USA, Kane (Montgomery), 14:15. Penalties: SPR, Keevan (slashing), 2:18; SPR, Staehely (roughing), 4:04; USA, Bennett (roughing), 8:47; SPR, Staehely (charging), 9:47; SPR, Kohn (tripping), USA, O'Brien (interference), 15:44.

Third Period - Scoring: 8, USA, O'Brien (Kane, Rakhshani), 14:14. Penalties: SPR, Hernandez (hooking), 4:57; USA, O'Brien (hooking), 6:13; SPR, Plocar (holding), 11:02; SPR, Keevan (high sticking), 11:31; SPR, Conway (tripping), 12:31; USA, Montgomery (tripping), 18:23.

Shots By Period 1 2 3 Total USA 12 21 18 51 SPR 11 12 8 31

Goaltending (SH-SV) 1 2 3 Total USA, Bennett (60:00) 11-9 12-12 8-8 31-29 SPR, Roy (60:00) 12-10 21-18 18-17 51-45

Power Play: USA 2-9; SPR 2-8 Penalties: USA 8-16; SPR 8-20 Attendance: 916 Officials: Referee- Craig Welker

NTDP ALUMNI UPDATE: Last weekend (Mar. 3-4) in CCHA playoff action, 2002-03 alum Wylie Rogers (Fairbanks, Alaska) led the University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks to a two-game sweep over Notre Dame. After allowing the first goal of the series, Rogers shutout the Irish for the remainder of the series (106: 29 minutes) to help his team to 3-1 (22 saves) and 1-0 (39 saves) victories on March 3 and 4, respectively. The NHL's first week back after the Olympic break saw U.S. Olympic goaltender Rick DiPietro (Winthrop, Mass.) pick up two straight wins over the weekend. DiPietro and the NY Islanders claimed a 3-2 shootout win over New Jersey on March 2. DiPietro stopped both of the Devils' shots that he faced en route to his team's 2-0 shootout victory. Two days later, DiPietro picked up a 4-2 Atlantic Conference win over the visiting Flyers. DiPietro made 26 saves in each of the contests.

ABOUT THE NTDP: Founded in 1997, USA Hockey's National Team Development Program was created to prepare student-athletes under the age of 18 for participation on U.S. National Teams and success in their future hockey careers. The program has been instrumental in capturing gold medals at the 2002 and 2005 IIHF World Under-18 Championships and the 2004 IIHF World Junior Championship. This past summer 15 NTDP alumni were selected in the NHL Entry Draft. In the seven years NTDP players have been eligible for the NHL draft, 107 players have been selected.

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