ALL-AMERICAN GAME: John Mustard (Oradell, N.J./Waterloo Blackhawks) scored 3:11 into overtime to lift Team White to a 5-4 victory over Team Blue Monday afternoon at USA Hockey Arena in the 2024 Chipotle All-American Game, featuring top players eligible for the NHL Draft. 

Austin Baker (White Lake, Mich./U.S. National Under-18 Team), who also had a goal in the contest, picked up an assist on the three-on-three overtime winner.

The NTDP players accounted for six of the game's nine goals as Lucas Van Vliet (Livonia, Mich.), James Hagens (Hauppauge, N.Y.), EJ Emery (Compton, Calif.), Teddy Stiga (Sudbury, Mass.), Baker, and Cole Eiserman (Newburyport, Mass.) all found the back of the net.

With his goal and an additional assist, Hagens, a 2025 NHL Draft-eligible prospect, was named Player of the Game.

CENTURY MARK: U18 forward Cole Eiserman (Newburyport, Mass.) netted three goals last weekend to become the third skater in NTDP history to eclipse the 100-goal plateau.

After finding the back of the net in Thursday night's game in Sioux Falls for goal number 99, Eiserman wasted no time Friday evening to pot the triple-digit score as he lit the lamp just 5:53 into the game. Eiserman added a third-period score to give him his eighth multi-goal effort of the campaign.

After 69 goals scored and 104 total points during the 2022-23 season, the Boston University commit has added 32 goals and 21 assists for 53 points in his first 30 games this year.

Eiserman's 101 career goals is third in program history, behind only Phil Kessel (2003-05/104 goals) and Cole Caufield (2017-19, 126 goals). The U18s project to play around 28 more games this year, dependent on their U18 World Championship schedule, and a goal-per-game finish, which Eiserman has done thus far in his NTDP career, would let him break Caufield's record. 

Eiserman is also climbing the career points list, as his current 157 total points puts him t-10th on the all-time list with Matthew Boldy. Next up on scoring list is a name that hockey is familiar with: Auston Matthews, with 167 career points in his two seasons with the NTDP. At his current scoring rate, Eiserman would finish second all-time to Jack Hughes (2017-19 / New Jersey Devils) on the NTDP scoring list.

PACK THE RINK: The Under-17 Team playeed in front of 2,681 fans against Dubuque on Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena, marking the second-highest attendance for a USHL game at USA Hockey Arena.

The only USHL game that logged more fans was this year's Kids Day Game on Wednesday, December 13, that saw 3,475 folks at USA Hockey Arena. 

USA STAYS GOLDEN: The U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team defeated Czechia, 5-1, on January 14 in Zug, Switzerland, in the gold-medal game of the 2024 IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Championship at Bossard Arena. It marks the ninth gold medal for the United States in the tournament all-time.

“It is awesome to get the win,” said Liz Keady Norton (Boston, Mass.), head coach of the U.S. Under-18 Women’s National Team. “I am really proud of our group. I thought that we worked hard the whole way and so it was nice for them to be rewarded.”

The United States finished the tournament with a perfect 6-0-0-0 record to earn its first gold medal at the tournament since 2020.

The gold medal was already Team USA's second of 2024 after the U.S. National Junior Team claimed gold at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship earlier in the month in Gothenburg, Sweden. The next IIHF event will be on home soil as the 2023 IIHF Women's World Championship will take place April 3-14, in Utica, N.Y.

U18 FIVE NATIONS: USA Hockey Arena is proud to host the 2024 U18 Five Nations Tournament, taking place from February 6-10, in Plymouth, Michigan. 

The best hockey players under the age of 18 from the United States, Czechia, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland will all compete in a round-robin style schedule, facing off against all other teams throughout the week. 

All tickets for the Five Nations will be sold as day passes - one ticket provides entry to both games on a given day. Tickets for all five days of the tournament are on sale now and fans can purchase by online at USAHockeyArena.com/fivenations, visiting the USA Hockey Arena box office in person or by calling 734-453-8400! 

This tournament will be Team USA's final international competition prior to the 2024 IIHF Under-18 Men's World Championship, set to be played in April in Espoo, Finland.