USA wins vs Great Britain, secures spot in final

The USA entered the match-up with Great Britain as the favorite, and the game started according to expectations as he Americans built a lead of seven goals in the first period. In the second period, the Americans took their foot off the gas and were content to protect their lead. In the final period, the Americans finally added one more goal to make the final score 8-0, thus securing a spot in the gold medal game. Drake Manning Almeida Jack Colfer and Hunter Lammi paced the American offense with three points each.

Niké Arena 2

0-8

(0:7, 0:0, 0:1)

Great Britain U18 - USA U18

Penalties

1:1

PPG

0:1

SHG

0:0

Shots on goal

5:41

Goals and assists

4. Colfer (Lammi, Joyce), 4. Rennebeck (Colfer, Lammi), 7. Manning Almeida (Battista, Warner-Senee), 9. Joyce (Lammi, Colfer), 11. Warner-Senee (Manning Almeida, Tussey), 12. Nackrelli (O’Connor, Morin), 15. Manning Almeida (Battista, Miller), 41. DiBenedetto (O’Connor)

Referees

Tyler Dea, Gabriel Hatala

Official game sheet

Great Britain U18

Coldwell - Benson, Booth, Mullan, Kerkhoff, Oughton-Shaw, Gray, Waterhouse - Bolstridge, Williamson, Farrow, Winstanley, Mehrvand, Pick, Benson, Wells, Kamm, Hibbard, Pendall, Bolger

USA U18

Minchin - Morin, Barbosa, Warner-Senee, Reuther, Rennebeck, Almeida, Zevola - Lammi, Miller, O’Connor, Joyce, DiBenedetto, Nackrelli, Impagliazzo, Nikolajski, Robb, Colfer, Tussey, Battista, Stocklin

COACHES´ REACTIONS

Callum West (GBR): “We knew it would be tough. As far as I know, the USA has really quick players, and they showed that exactly. We started well and executed our plan. However, it became difficult once they started scoring goals. Despite that, I appreciate how the opponents played from the second period and conducted themselves. They played respectfully until the end.”

Willie McKeen (USA): "They just keep battling, nothing but respect for them. They are really good people, we had great conversations throughout the week, great stuff. We knew if we won this game, we will play in gold medal game, so we handle some business in first period, and than we wanted to work on some thiings that we want to try to implement to our game."