{"id":68208,"date":"2026-05-19T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/68208\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:34:34","slug":"defending-champion-us-rebounds-from-loss-to-switzerland-by-beating-britain-5-1-at-ice-hockey-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/68208\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion US rebounds from loss to Switzerland by beating Britain 5-1 at ice hockey worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZURICH (AP) \u2014 Defending champion United States<\/a> bounced back from a loss to Switzerland<\/a> with a 5-1 victory over tournament newcomer Britain at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Isaac Howard scored twice, Paul Cotter and Mathieu Olivier each had three points and Declan Carlile had a goal and an assist for the Americans. Goaltender Devin Cooley made 18 saves for the U.S. in the preliminary Group A game in Zurich.<\/p>\n

Cotter broke the deadlock 13:55 into the Group A game, knocking in the puck from close range.<\/p>\n

Nathanael Halbert tied it for Britain midway through the middle period on a power play with a shot through heavy traffic.<\/p>\n

Howard restored a 2-1 lead for the Americans with an unassisted goal with 2:59 remaining in the period by exploiting a defensive blunder.<\/p>\n

Howard is one of two players on the roster, along with Mason Lohrei, who lifted the trophy last year.<\/p>\n

Olivier and Carlile scored 15 seconds apart early in the final period to increase the advantage to 4-1.<\/p>\n

Olivier netted a rebound while Carlile scored with a deflected shot from the blue line. <\/p>\n

Howard added his second on a power play with 3:49 left.<\/p>\n

The Americans next play Finland on Monday. On Tuesday, they will be boosted with the arrival of Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk<\/a>, a member of the U.S. gold-winning team at the Milan Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n

Britain, a newcomer to the top division, fell to its second straight defeat. <\/p>\n

In other Group A games, Austria topped Hungary 4-2 to get the second win and Latvia shut out winless Germany 2-0 for its first victory. <\/p>\n

Sweden takes 1st win<\/p>\n

Sweden recovered from a 5-3 defeat to Canada in the opening game by routing Denmark 6-2 in Group B in Fribourg in a rematch of last year\u2019s bronze medal game that Sweden also won by the same score.<\/p>\n

Raymond Lucas had a goal and two assists to spark the Swedes.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old forward Viggo Bjorck scored on a power play to become the youngest Swedish player to score at the worlds and added an assist. Another 18-year-old rising star for Sweden, Ivar Stenberg, had two assists. The two are among the top prospects for the 2026 NHL draft.<\/p>\n

Mattias Ekholm, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Jakob Silfverberg and Linus Karlsson also scored for the Swedes.<\/p>\n

In Fribourg, Slovakia downed another newcomer, Italy, 4-1 for its second victory at the worlds. <\/p>\n

A day after a stunning 3-2 victory over the Czechs in overtime, Slovenia was outplayed 4-0 by Norway with Jacob Berglund scoring a hat trick. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH (AP) \u2014 Defending champion United States bounced back from a loss to Switzerland with a 5-1 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2651,12783,307,17],"class_list":["post-68208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-hockey","tag-s","tag-sports","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116601740767399302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}