Switzerland hands U.S. its 1st loss in Denmark at men's hockey worlds

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 12, 2025 2:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

Last year's runner-up Switzerland unopen retired the United States 3-0 and handed the Americans their archetypal nonaccomplishment astatine the men's satellite hockey title connected Monday successful Herning, Denmark.

Damien Riat, Jonas Siegenthaler and Dean Kukan scored successful the Group B crippled successful Herning. Netminder Leonardo Genoni stopped 23 shots for the shutout.

"Give recognition to Switzerland," U.S. manager Ryan Warsofsky said. "But I cognize our radical has a batch much successful them. We'll regroup and get acceptable to play Norway."

Riat enactment Switzerland up with 7:14 remaining successful the archetypal period, redirecting the puck into the extremity from the air. It was the archetypal extremity the U.S. conceded astatine the tournament.

The 2nd followed 3:13 aboriginal by Siegenthaler from the bluish line. Kukan's came halfway done the last play from the apical of the near circle.

"After the archetypal extremity we did a amended job, we got into it much and more, and unopen them out," Swiss guardant Kevin Fiala said.

Fiala recorded an assistance successful his archetypal crippled astatine the worlds. He joined the Swiss precocious aft his Los Angeles Kings were eliminated from the NHL playoffs successful the archetypal round.

U.S. goalie Joey Daccord made 24 saves.

The U.S. bushed Denmark 5-0 and Hungary 6-0 successful its archetypal 2 games, and look Norway connected Wednesday.

In Stockholm, Austria prevailed implicit Slovakia 3-2 successful a punishment shootout.

Defending champion Czech Republic plays Denmark successful Herning aboriginal Monday, and Sweden meets rival Finland successful Stockholm.

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