{"id":648962,"date":"2026-05-17T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648962\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:54:08","slug":"penguins-tommy-novak-records-assist-as-united-states-beats-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648962\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Tommy Novak records assist as United States beats Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins forward Tommy Novak recorded an assist for the United States in a 5-1 win against Great Britain during a preliminary round game at the International Ice Hockey Federation\u2019s (IIHF) World Championship tournament at Swiss Life Arena in Zurich on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the game as the first-line center, Novak logged 16:33 of ice time on 19 shifts and recorded one shot. In the faceoff dot, he was 4 for 11 on draws (36.3%)<\/p>\n<p>Penguins defenseman Connor Clifton began the contest on the right side of the United States\u2019 third pairing and clocked 16:21 of ice time on 18 shifts. He recorded one shot and two penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The United States will face Finland in another preliminary round game on Monday, 10:20 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins forward Tommy Novak recorded an assist for the United States in a 5-1 win against Great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-648962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}