Kerdiles leads USA U18 to tournament win

13 Nov 2011 | Henrik Lundqvist

Nicolas Kerdiles scored 5 goals when USA won the U18 4-Nations tournament in Switzerland.

USA with its second team (the first played 2011 World Junior A Challenge at the same time) won all three games to win the U18 tournament in Monthey against Sweden, Finland and Switzerland.

In the first game USA beat Sweden 3-2 and in the second game Finland was beaten 3-1.

Today USA played the host Switzerland and after 3-0 in the first period the team could cruise to a 6-2 win.

Nicolas Kerdiles scored in all three games to win the scoring title with five goals.

Finland finished second thanks to the 4-2 win against Switzerland on the first day.

Switzerland managed to beat Sweden 4-2 in Saturday's game to finish third.

Sweden, who just like USA had its first team at the 2011 World Junior A Challenge, lost the two first game but got away with a 3-2 shootout win against Finland today.

#	Club	G	W	W-OT	L-OT	L	Score	P
1	USA	3	3	0	0	0	12:5	9
2	Finland	3	1	0	1	1	7:8	4
3	Switzerland	3	1	0	0	2	8:12	3
4	Sweden	3	0	1	0	2	7:9	2

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