{"id":602686,"date":"2025-11-30T04:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:54:28","slug":"u17s-fall-to-stampede-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602686\/","title":{"rendered":"U17s fall to Stampede, 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA answered on the power play, moving the puck quickly before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usahockeyntdp.com\/roster_players\/76587602?subseason=949073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nolan Fitzhenry<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Andover, Mass.)\u00a0found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usahockeyntdp.com\/roster_players\/76587600?subseason=949073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Braden Horton<\/a><\/strong> alone in the slot. With the goaltender out of position, Horton buried the chance to cut the deficit in half.<\/p>\n<p>The Stampede restored their two-goal lead with two minutes left in the first, taking a 3\u20131 advantage into the intermission.<\/p>\n<p>Defense and goaltending took over in a scoreless second period, highlighted by the U17s shutting down all six Sioux Falls power-play opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Sioux Falls extended its lead early in the third to go up 4\u20131. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usahockeyntdp.com\/roster_players\/76587604?subseason=949073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finnegan Sears<\/a><\/strong> pulled Team USA back within two with seven minutes remaining, ripping a shot into the net, but the comeback was halted by a Stampede empty-net goal to seal a 5\u20132 final.<\/p>\n<p>The U17s are back at USA Hockey Arena next Saturday, Dec. 6th\u00a0as they host the Lincoln Stars. Puck drop is set for 7:00 p.m. ET and tickets are available at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/usahockeyntdp.com\/tix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USAHockeyNTDP.com\/tix<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or by calling the box office at 734-453-8400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team USA answered on the power play, moving the puck quickly before Nolan Fitzhenry\u00a0(Andover, Mass.)\u00a0found Braden Horton alone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-602686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115636867117188674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}