{"id":683726,"date":"2026-05-21T08:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683726\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:06:23","slug":"worlds-howard-samanski-ekholm-all-produce-points-for-nations-on-day-6-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683726\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLDS: Howard, Samanski &#038; Ekholm all produce points for nations on Day 6 in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWITZERLAND \u2013 The Blue &amp; Orange were all over the\u00a0scoresheet\u00a0in Fribourg\u00a0&amp; Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Howard&#8217;s goal and assist for the United States in a 4-3 shootout victory over Josh\u00a0Samanski &amp; Team Germany headlined a productive slate of games for Oilers skaters who were in action Wednesday on Day 6 of the 2026 IIHF World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Howard played a leading role with his second straight multi-point game in the win, scoring his team-leading third goal of the tournament to erase a fast start from Germany that saw Samanski assist on Moritz Seider&#8217;s quick opener before collecting a helper on Max Sasson&#8217;s 2-1 tally over five minutes into the second.<\/p>\n<p>Samanski went toe-to-toe with Howard by picking up an early assist on Seider&#8217;s tally just a minute into regulation before going on to finish with the most faceoffs taken in 17:13 of total ice time, winning six of 16 draws, while also stepping up and scoring for Germany in the first round of the shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Howard &amp; the United States (1-1-0-2, eight points) created some separation in the Group A standings over Germany (0-0-1-3, one point) with the victory and will face Latvia on Friday. Samanski &amp; Germany&#8217;s next match is a crucial one against Hungary on Thursday as they look to pull themselves out of a relegation battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SWITZERLAND \u2013 The Blue &amp; Orange were all over the\u00a0scoresheet\u00a0in Fribourg\u00a0&amp; Zurich. Isaac Howard&#8217;s goal and assist for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-683726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}