Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) – Canada rolled past Italy and the United States claimed an overtime win against Kazakhstan in round-robin play Friday at the 2014 World Hockey Championship.<\/p>\n
Cody Hodgson continued his hot streak with a pair of goals for Canada in a 6-1 win. He has five goals in the last two games after recording a hat trick in Thursday’s 6-1 triumph over Denmark.<\/p>\n
Brayden Schenn, Kyle Turris, Jason Chimera and Joel Ward also scored for the Canadians, who have won four straight after an opening-game loss to France. James Reimer made 21 saves in the lopsided victory.<\/p>\n
Canada still trails Sweden for first place in the Group A bracket after the Swedes posted a 3-1 victory over Slovakia on Friday behind first-period power- play goals from Gustav Nyquist and Mikael Backlund.<\/p>\n
Magnus Nygren also scored for Sweden to help support a 20-save effort from Anders Nilsson.<\/p>\n
The U.S. bounced back with a 4-3 win on Friday after suffering consecutive losses to Russia and Latvia. Seth Jones netted the overtime winner and added a second-period goal for the Americans, while Craig Smith and Matt Donovan also scored in the victory.<\/p>\n
Tim Thomas stopped 22 shots, including a third-period penalty shot by Konstantin Romanov.<\/p>\n
The U.S. remained tied with Finland for third place in Group B following the Fins’ 3-2 shootout decision over Switzerland, with Iiro Pakarinen netting the deciding goal in the fifth round of the final phase.<\/p>\n
Pekka Rinne stopped 26 shots through overtime prior to turning aside all five Swiss skaters in the shootout, while Tommi Kivisto and Olli Jokinen accounted for Finland’s regulation goals.<\/p>\n
Switzerland rallied from a 2-0 deficit to force overtime on third-period tallies from Reto Suri and Roman Josi, with Josi’s coming with 3:25 remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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