Great Britain meet the USA this afternoon in their fourth game at the 2022 IIHF World Championship in Finland.
The two sides go head-to-head the Nokia Arena in Tampere at 16:20 (14:20 UK time).
GB go into the game on the back of Tuesday’s 6-0 defeat by Sweden, while the USA have had two days off following their 4-1 defeat by hosts Finland on Monday.
Team news
Great Britain have a fully-fit 25-man squad to choose from for their second game against the USA in four years.
Mark Richardson makes his 98th appearance and becomes the most-capped GB defenceman of all-time.
Defencemen Jon Merrill is set to make his first senior USA appearance.
He trained for the first time yesterday after arriving in Tampere on Tuesday evening.
Game day 4 for @TeamGBicehockey at the world championships here in Finland and a landmark day for our #17 Mark Richardson who is set to pass Jonathan Weaver to become 🇬🇧 most capped defenceman of all time with 98 caps. Richardson also moves into the top 5 all time cap leaders 🇬🇧
— Andy Buxton 🇬🇧 (@APBuxton) May 19, 2022
Forward @RLachowicz is today set to become just the 13th player all time to win a 70th cap for @TeamGBicehockey when 🇬🇧 take on 🇺🇸 at the World Championships in Finland today. GB's #7 will be just the 8th forward to reach that milestone in well over 100 years of GB ice hockey 🇬🇧
— Andy Buxton 🇬🇧 (@APBuxton) May 19, 2022
Congratulations to @bownsy21 who is set to win his 60th cap for @TeamGBicehockey against USA at the World Championships in Tampere today. Bownsy will move into the all time top 20 🇬🇧 cap holders joining Stevie Lyle and Stephen Murphy as the only goalies to reach that milestone 🇬🇧
— Andy Buxton 🇬🇧 (@APBuxton) May 19, 2022
Recent meeting
Great Britain and the USA met at the 2019 World Championship in Kosice, Slovakia.
Mike Hammond, Brett Perlini and Ben Davies scored for GB, but USA won 6-3 in the Group A match in the Steel Arena.
GB record v USA
D3 L5
1924 Olympic Games – Lost 0-11
1936 Olympic Games – Drew 0-0
1938 World Championship – Drew 1-1
1948 World Championship – Lost 3-4 (Unofficial game as USA disqualified
1950 World Championship – Lost 2-3
1951 World Championship – Drew 0-0
1962 World Championship – Lost 2-12
2019 World Championship – Lost 3-6
How to follow the gameÂ
FreeSports
There’s live coverage on FreeSports. Commentary will come from six-time Olympic broadcaster Aaron Murphy and former GB forward Paul Adey who won 55 caps between 1995 and 2001, scoring 28 goals and contributing 24 assists for 52 points.
FreeSports is available free on Sky Channel 422, Virgin Media Channel 553, on Channel 64 on Freeview and BT and via the FreeSports Player.
GB social media
Twitter:Â @TeamGBicehockey
Facebook:Â @greatbritainicehockey
Instagram:Â @teamgbicehockey
TikTok:Â @gbicehockey
Live scoring
Click here for live scoring and statistics on the IIHF website.