U17s Skate to 8-5 Five Nations Win Over Switzerland

USA Hockey National Team Development Program

U17s Skate to 8-5 Five Nations Win Over Switzerland

By USA Hockey's NTDP, 02/07/25, 2:00PM EST

Beuker, Nelson add three points each

Photo by Ronald Hansel

HELSINKI, Finland - Dayne Beuker (Portland, Ore.) and Sammy Nelson (Maple Grove, Minn.) each added three points apiece to help the U.S. National Under-17 Team to an 8-5 win over Switzerland at the 2025 February Under-17 Five Nations Tournament this evening from Helsinki Ice Hall.

Nelson opened up scoring only 1:53 in, carrying the puck into the zone and firing along the right wing after Casey Mutryn (Norwell, Mass.) laid a hit to pick the puck free at the other end of the ice.

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Photos by Ronald Hansel

Logan Stuart (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) doubled the U17s' lead less than three minutes later, scooping up a rebound off an initial shot by Jamie Glance (Stratham, N.H.) to beat Swiss goaltender Nico Keller. Beuker added a helper as well.

JP Hurlbert (Allen, Texas) scored his first of the night just past the 10-minute mark on a power play, ripping a wrist-shot from the left dot off a perfectly placed pass from Lukas Zajic (Plainfield, Ill.). AJ Francisco (Hermantown, Minn.) set-up the play to earn his first point of the tournament.

The Swiss got on the board with a power-play goal at 14:19 to make it a 3-1 game, but Stuart restored the three-goal lead with 1:30 in the period, getting a tip on a Glance fire from far-side off some gorgeous stick-work to protect the puck. Beuker picked up an assist on the play.

A Kimi Sutter power-play goal brought the Swiss back within two 3:11 into the seconod stanza.

Wyatt Cullen (Moorhead, Minn.) tallied a fifth for Team USA, picking up a rebound behind the net off a rip from Nelson and slipping the puck past Keller at 4:26. Hurlbert tallied a helper as well.

Mutryn made it a 6-2 contest heading into the final frame, accepting a dish from Nelson at center ice and carrying the puck up the ice and around the Swiss net for his first of the night.

Moritz Rüegsegger added a third to Switzerland's count with a shorty just 16 seconds into the final stanza, but Hurlbert responded 28 seconds later with blast from the left dot on the power play.

Janis Grossniklaus made it a 7-3 score at the period's 6:50 mark, then Mutryn scored Team USA's eighth five minutes later with a rebound on the power play. A Niclas Rentsch shorthanded tally made the 8-5 final.

With the win, Team USA improves to 2-0-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) in tournament play. Luke Carrithers (Maple Grove, Minn.) finished with 22 saves and Nelson was named the U.S. Player of Game.

Team USA wraps play in the tournament Sunday against Czechia. Puck drop is set for 10:30 a.m. ET from Helsinki Ice Hall and the game can be streamed live on Leijonat.