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USWNT Visits Pepsi Center for Avs-Sharks Game

By USAHockey.com, 10/29/14, 2:45AM MDT

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In Denver for a training camp, the U.S. Women's National Team was hosted by the Colorado Avalanche at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday evening.

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U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team Defeats Japan, 11-1, in 2010 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship Opener

By U18 Women's World Champs 03/27/2010, 5:30pm EDT

WOODRIDGE, Ill. - Brittany Ammerman (River Vale, N.J.) and Kendall Coyne (Palos Heights, Ill.) each scored three goals as the U.S. Women's National Under-18 Team defeated Japan, 11-1, here tonight at Walter Bush Rink in Team USA's first preliminary-round game of the 2010 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's U18 Championship.

"We were able the move the puck well and had good speed throughout the game," said Katie King, Team USA's head coach. "It was a good way to start the tournament. Finland will be a more physical opponent tomorrow night and we'll have to be on our game even more to be successful."

Team USA tallied twice in the first period, with Ammerman opening the scoring at 11:57 when her shot beat Japanese goaltender Ai Tokoro low to the blocker side. Alex Carpenter(North Reading, Mass.) made it 2-0 with four minutes remaining in the frame after intercepting a Japanese pass at the blue line while shorthanded and sending a shot from the slot between Tokoro's legs.

In the second period, the U.S. put up five goals to take a 7-0 lead. Lyndsey Fry (Chandler, Ariz.) scored the frame's first tally from the slot at 3:41, while Ammerman notched her second goal of the game at 8:51 after snapping a shot from the right circle high to the blocker side. At 11:08, Rachael Bona (Coon Rapids, Minn.) gave the U.S. a 5-0 advantage after collecting the loose puck in the slot and wristing a shot past Tokoro. Zoe Hickel (Anchorage, Alaska) made it 6-0 at 19:45 when she fired a shot from the bottom of the circle past the glove of Tokoro, while Haley Skarupa (Rockville, Md.) closed out the period's scoring by jamming a rebound in with three seconds remaining.

In the third period, Coyne scored three straight goals for the U.S., with the first coming at 9:18. Moeko Fujimoto netted Japan's lone goal at 10:50, and Coyne answered less than two minutes later with a rebound goal to the right of new Japanese goaltender Shizuka Takahashi. At 16:09, Coyne potted her third goal from the same spot, while Ammerman closed out the game's scoring at 16:51.

U.S. netminder Aubree Moore (Bowie, Md.) turned aside seven shots in her Team USA debut.

Team USA plays Finland tomorrow (March 28) in its second preliminary-round game at 7:30 p.m. CDT. 

NOTES: Kendall Coyne was named Team USA's player of the game ... The U.S. and Japan were both 0-for-3 on the power play ... All tournament games are available via live webstream at USAHockey.FASTHockey.com... Media can obtain tournament photos at ImagesOnIce.net... The IIHF World Women's Under-18 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, withShelley 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 Under-18 Championship, visit Chicago2010Hockey.com.

GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period

JPN 0 - 0 - 1 - 1
USA 2 - 5 - 4 - 11

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Ammerman (Hickel), 11:57; 2, USA, Carpenter (unassisted), 16:00 (sh). Penalties: USA, Ammerman (interference), 1:21; USA, Gedman (slashing), 14:31; USA,Hickel (tripping), 18:36.

Second Period - Scoring: 3, USA, Fry (Mangene), 3:41; 4, USA, Ammerman (Bizzari), 8:51; 5, USA, Bona (Pfalzer), 11:08; 6, USA, Hickel (Slavin, Carpenter), 19:45; 7, USA, Hickel (Lorence), 19:57. Penalties: JPN, Baba (hooking), 5:22.

Third Period - Scoring: 8, USA, Coyne (Gedman, Slavin), 9:18; 9, JPN, Fujimoto (unassisted), 10:50; 10, USA, Coyne (Mangene, Pelkey), 12:49; 11, USA, Coyne (Pelkey), 16:09; 12, USA, Ammerman (Bizzari, Picard), 16:51. Penalties: JPN, Hori (tripping), 7:10; JPN, Ukita (slashing), 17:30.

Shots by Period 1 2 3 Total
JPN 3 3 2 8
USA 11 20 25 56
         
Goaltenders (SH/SV) 1 2 3 Total
JPN, Tokoro, 40:00 11-9 20-15 x-x 31-24
JPN, Takahashi, 20:00 x-x x-x 25-21 25-21
USA, Moore, 60:00 3-3 3-3 2-1 8-7

Power Play: JPN 0-3; USA 0-3

Penalties: JPN 3-6; USA 3-6
Officials: Referee-Radka Ruzickova (CZE); Linesmen-Helene Roy (CAN), Veronika Stenzel (GER)

Tournament Organizers Cover All Bases

By By Harry Thompson, USA Hockey Magazine 04/11/2012, 2:45pm EDT

Under-18 Women Roll to Semifinals

By U18 Women's World Champs 01/01/2013, 2:45pm EST

HEINOLA, Finland  - Fueled by goals from seven different players, the U.S. Women’s National Under-18 Team defeated Sweden, 8-0, today in the team’s final preliminary game of the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women’s World Championship.  Katherine Schipper (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) scored twice and added an assist while Team USA goaltender Sidney Peters (Geneva, Ill.) stopped 10 shots in the squad’s third straight shutout victory in the tournament.   

“Our puck movement was phenomenal today,” said Jeff Kampersal, head coach of Team USA. “The defense did a good job of regrouping in the neutral zone the forwards hit their spots. It looked really good. I thought our kids did a great job of moving the puck all the way around.” 

The first 10 minutes featured action on both ends of the ice before the U.S. scored four goals in the span of 1:25 to take command. Cara Piazza (Darien, Ill.) started Team USA’s goal spree by finishing off a rebound from Danielle Cameranesi’s (Plymouth, Minn.) shot after Cameranesi stole the puck from a Swedish defenseman as she tried to clear the zone. 

Eighteen seconds later, Grace Zarzecki (Chicago, Ill.) buried a backhand shot for the second U.S. goal of the game.  Less than a minute later Megan Wolfe (Eagan, Minn.) scored to make it 3-0.  Jennifer Ryan (Victor, N.Y.) capped off the offensive burst 16 seconds after Wolfe’s goal with a blast from the point that knocked Swedish goaltender Maria Omberg’s water bottle off the net.  

Schipper’s wrist shot found the top right corner of the net 59 seconds into the second period to give the U.S. a 5-0 advantage. Taylar Cianfarano (Oswego N.Y) then picked up her second point of the game with a spectacular effort from the right side of the ice in which she faked a pass across the goal crease, drawing Omberg out of position, then buried the puck just inside the right post.  

Schipper notched her second goal of the game at 2:15 of the third period by capitalizing on a rebound from Amy Menke’s (Shakopee, Minn.) shot. It was the second time the two players combined for a goal on their line’s first shift of a period, having also done so in the second period.   

Soon after, Sweden nearly spoiled the U.S. shutout with a breakaway chance, but Peters came up with the save.  Cameranesi capped off scoring for Team USA with a power-play tally midway through the period. 

With its three preliminary round victories, the U.S. receives a bye into Friday’s (Jan. 3) semifinal round and will learn tomorrow who its next opponent will be. 

NOTES: Taylar Cianfarano, who was 11-for-14 in the face-off circle and recorded two points (1-1—2), was named the U.S. Player of the Game … Team USA is the only squad in the tournament that has yet to concede a goal … Final stats from today’s game can be viewed below. 

Game Summary

Scoring by Period  1 2 3 F 

SWE 0 0 0 0 

USA 4 2 2 8 

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Piazza (Cameranesi), 10:26; 2, USA, Zarzecki (Wellhausen), 10:44; 3, USA, Wolfe (Cianfarano), 11:35; 4, USA, Ryan (Dunne, Schipper), 11:51. Penalties: USA, Rolfes (interference), 3:55. 

Second Period – Scoring: 5, USA, Schipper (Menke), 0:59; 6, USA, Cianfarano (Willard). Penalties: SWE, Johansson (interference), 2:42.

Third Period – Scoring: 7, USA, Schipper (Menke), 2:15; 8, USA, Cameranesi (Dunne, Ryan), 7:41 (pp). Penalties: SWE, Hall (tripping), 6:47; SWE, Palm (body checking), 8:49; USA, Laing (tripping), 14:23; USA, Piazza (hooking), 19:33. 

Shots on Goal 1 2 3 Total 

SWE 3 5 2 10 

USA 19 20 18 57 

Goaltenders (SV-SH) 1 2 3 Total 

SWE, Omberg, 30:44 15-19 13-15 - 28-34 

SWE, Murase, 29:16 - 5-5 16-18 21-23 

USA, Peters, 60:00 3-3 5-5 2-2 10-10 

Power play: SWE 0-3; USA, 1-3
Penalties: SWE, 3-6; USA, 3-6 

Tag(s): Four Nations Cup 

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