HOCKEY
Canada tops Team USA; Roy, Pominville trade goals
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Updated: 05/07/08 6:41 AM
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- Dany Heatley scores his second goal of the game, in the final minute, to lead Canada past Team USA in the World Hockey Championships.
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Goals by two members of the Buffalo Sabres in effect canceled each other out as Canada earned a 5-4 victory Tuesday over the United States at the world hockey championships.
Dany Heatley scored the winner with 46.8 seconds remaining, his second goal of the game in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Derek Roy of the Sabres, Brent Burns and Jonathan Toews also scored for the Canadians (3-0), and Cam Ward stopped 29 shots.
The Sabres’ Jason Pominville, Zach Parise, Patrick O’Sullivan and Dustin Brown scored for the Americans (2-1).
“We played really hard right to the end,” Canada’s Ryan Getzlaf said. “We take pride in those kind of wins. We were raised that way.”
Earlier in Quebec City, Washington Capitals teammates Alex Ovechkin and Sergei Fedorov each scored a goal, helping Russia defeat Denmark, 4-1.
Maxim Afinogenov of the Sabres and Konstantin Gorovikov also scored for Russia and Ilya Kovalchuk of the Atlanta Thrashers had two assists in the game. Russia improved to 3-0 in the preliminary round.
Kim Staal scored for Denmark (1-2).
The Russians peppered Danish goaltender Patrick Galbraith with 43 shots. Mikhail Biryukov made 19 saves for Russia.
Fedorov, who assisted on Ovechkin’s goal, scored on a tipped point shot on a power play in the second period. It was Fedorov’s first world championship goal since 1990, when he last played in the tournament for the Soviet Union.
The Danes have just two players with American Hockey League experience — Morten Madsen, a Minnesota Wild draft pick, and Jannik Hansen, a Vancouver Canucks prospect.
The Russians started Biryukov in goal after Alexander Eremenko injured his knee Sunday in a 5-4 overtime win over the Czech Republic. San Jose Sharks goaltender Evgeni Nabokov will join the Russian team.
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