By Roy J. Akers
PLYMOUTH, Mich. – Ryker Lee (Madison Capitols/Wilmette, Ill.) scored the game-winner with 4:54 left in the contest to help Team Blue to a 3-2 victory over Team White in the 2025 Chipotle All-American Game at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Mich., featuring top NHL Draft prospects from the U.S. National Under-18 Team of USA Hockey’s National Team Development Program, and other teams in the United States Hockey League, the nation’s only Tier 1 junior hockey league.
Kade Stengrim (Youngstown Phantoms/Brainerd, Minn.) batted home a loose puck from just outside the crease 7:28 into the contest to open the scoring for Team Blue. Ben Kevan (Des Moines Buccaneers/Fairfield, Calif.) and Adam Benak (Youngstown Phantoms/Youngstown, Ohio) picked up helpers on the play.
With 2:40 to play in the opening frame, Will Moore (U.S. National Under-18 Team/Ithaca, N.Y.) doubled Team Blue’s lead when he redirected a shot from the point from Sam Laurila (Fargo Force/Moorhead, Minn.) past Team White netminder Bjorn Bronas (Sioux City Musketeers/Victoria, Minn.). Brady Peddle (Waterloo Black Hawks/Waterloo, Iowa) also recorded an assist on the play.
Both squads made substitutions in goal at the 10:33 mark of the second period as Joey Slavick (U.S. National Under-18 Team /Westland, Mich.) entered the game for Team White, while starter Patrick Quinlan (U.S. National Under-18 Team/Kennett Square, Pa.) exited. Team Blue’s Kam Hendrickson (Waterloo Black Hawks/Chanhassen, Minn.) subbed in for Bronas.
Team White cut the lead in half at 16:03 of the middle stanza when Jackson Crowder (Sioux City Musketeers/Allen Texas) threaded a one-handed pass to Edison Engle (Dubuque Fighting Saints/Arlington Heights, Ill.) in the slot, who capitalized to make it a 2-1 game.
Just 53 seconds later, Teddy Mutryn (Chicago Steel/Norwell, Mass.) knotted the game at 2-2 for Team White when he directed a feed from Ashton Schultz (Chicago Steel/Victoria, Minn.) into the top right corner.
Lee put the game on ice with a rocket from the high slot, beating Slavick far-side over his left shoulder off a dish from Samuel Spehar (Sioux Falls Stampede/Chaska, Minn.).
NOTES: Ryker Lee was named the Player of the Game … Team White outshot Team Blue, 36-24 … 42 players who competed in today’s game are committed to NCAA programs… For more information about the Chipotle All-American Game, click here.
