International play begins today (Aug. 2) at the USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp in Lake Placid, New York, when Team USA White faces off against Finland at 1 p.m. The second match of the day will feature USA Blue vs. Sweden at 4 p.m.
Both matches will take place in the 1980 Herb Brooks Arena at the Olympic Center and will be streamed live at usahockey.fasthockey.com. Live stats will also be available at worldjuniors.usahockey.com.
USA Blue and USA White competed in an intrasquad scrimmage last night, in which USA Blue was victorious, 4-3. Seven different players tallied goals in the matchup, including Paul Bittner (Crookston, Minn.), Erik Foley (Wayne, Ill.), Caleb Jones (Frisco, Texas) and Dominic Turgeon (Cherry Hills, Colo.) for Team Blue, and Conor Garland (Mansfield, Mass.), Ryan Hitchcock (Manhasset, N.Y.) and Jack Roslovic (Columbus, Ohio) for USA White.
