The 2021 IIHF Men’s World Championships continue in Riga, Latvia, and so far, there have been some interesting results. Canada is now 0-2 for the first time ever, and the United States captured a win with a four-goal margin over Canada, the largest for the Americans through 48 Worlds games and 18 Olympic Games between the two teams.
Germany, Russia, Slovakia and Switzerland remain undefeated.
Here are your Sabres-relevant stats after another day of tournament action:
Colin Miller (CAN): 2 GP - 0 G - 0 A
Victor Olofsson (SWE): 2 GP - 0 G - 0 A
JJ Peterka (GER): 0 GP - 0 G - 0 A
Lawrence Pilut (SWE): 2 GP - 0 G - 0 A
Tobias Rieder (GER): 2 GP - 1 G - 0 A
Arttu Ruotsalainen (FIN): 2 GP - 0 G - 0 A
Tage Thompson (USA): 2 GP - 0 G - 0 A
Slovakia 2, Great Britain 1
Slovakia goals: Marek Hrivik, Robert Lantosi
Great Britain goal: Liam Kirk
Norway 4, Italy 1
Norway goals: Matthias Tretendes (3), Mats Rosseli Olsen
Italy goal: Daniel Frank
Belarus 1, Sweden 0
Belarus goal: German Nesterov
Sweden goal: None
Kazakhstan 2, Finland 1 (SO)
Kazakhstan goals: Anton Lundell
Finland goals: Kirill Panyukov
Switzerland 1, Denmark 0
Switzerland goal: Timo Meier
Denmark goal: None
United States 5, Canada 1
United States goals: Jason Robertson, Adam Clendening, Trevor Moore (2), Matt Tennyson
Canada goal: Maxime Comtois
Monday’s Games
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