{"id":655460,"date":"2026-05-21T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:44:15","slug":"ryan-leonard-scores-game-winning-shootout-goal-for-team-usa-against-germany-named-player-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655460\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Leonard scores game-winning shootout goal for Team USA against Germany, named Player of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ryan Leonard<\/a> helped push Team USA to their second victory at the 2026 World Championship in Switzerland and now has a new Tissot watch to show for it.<\/p>\n

While Leonard was unable to find the scoresheet during regulation, the 21-year-old winger scored the game-winning goal for the Americans in their five-round shootout against Germany. Through four rounds, the two teams were tied 1-1 before Team USA netminder Devin Cooley<\/a> stopped Germany\u2019s Nicolas Kramer, and Leonard beat Phillipp Grubauer at the other end.<\/p>\n

Leonard made a simple move to his forehand before rifling a snap shot past Grubauer\u2019s glove hand.<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard\u2019s game-winning shootout goal<\/p>\n

Leonard fired five shots on goal and skated 18:22 of ice time in the United States\u2019 4-3 victory. He lined up on the team\u2019s top line, paired with Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> and Tommy Novak<\/a>. Tkachuk made his tournament debut, seeking to double up on gold medals this year after helping the Americans to gold at the Olympics this past February.<\/p>\n

While he didn\u2019t receive an assist on the play, Leonard also helped set up the game-tying goal in the third period to push the game to overtime. He fired a shot on net that eventually worked its way out of Grubauer\u2019s pads and onto Novak\u2019s stick for an easy tally.<\/p>\n

Team USA\u2019s game-tying goal<\/p>\n

After the action, Leonard was chosen as Team USA\u2019s Player of the Game. For his efforts, he was awarded the Tissot watch.<\/p>\n

Team USA has three more games left in Group A action, starting Saturday against Latvia. They currently sit fourth in the group\u2019s standings, trailing Switzerland, Finland, and Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot: NHL Ryan Leonard helped push Team USA to their second victory at the 2026 World Championship in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-655460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460","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=655460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}