After struggling early, U.S. men's hockey team dispatches Denmark 6-3

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Jack Eichel scored disconnected his ain faceoff triumph a infinitesimal aft mounting up Brady Tkachuk's archetypal of 2 goals the aforesaid way, and the U.S. rode its apical enactment to a 6-3 decision of Denmark connected Saturday night, keeping gait with also-unbeaten Canada for the apical effect successful the men's hockey tourney at the Olympics.

The U.S. bounced backmost from goaltender Jeremy Swayman getting beaten by a changeable from 95 feet away, conscionable wrong the halfway reddish line, 11 minutes in. Swayman won't person to footwear himself excessively severely for the blunder aft immoderate of his astir talented teammates stepped up to marque the long-distance extremity from Nicholas B. Jensen and different brushed 1 from Phillip Bruggisser with 2.6 seconds near successful the 2nd play moot.

The goals by Tkachuk and Eichel — two-thirds of the apical enactment on with Brady's brother, Matthew — midway done the 2nd play tied it and gave the U.S. the lead. Defenseman Noah Hanifin added different erstwhile his changeable got done Mads Sogaard and trickled implicit the extremity enactment a spot later, providing immoderate breathing country that proved necessary.

Jake Guentzel fired a one-timer past Sogaard with a small much than 12 minutes left, and Brady Tkachuk scored his 2nd disconnected a provender from Jack Hughes aft Sogaard exited with wounded and was relieved by Frederik Dichow.

Captain Auston Matthews made the walk to Guentzel, and Zach Werenski — who accidentally knocked the puck into his ain nett connected Denmark's archetypal extremity credited to Nick Olesen — had the secondary assistance to get immoderate retribution.

"U-S-A! U-S-A!" chants from the precise red, achromatic and bluish assemblage filled the arena astatine the opening puck driblet and aft each the goals. Some fans successful the stands had flags of Greenland, successful airy of caller rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump astir taking power of the semiautonomous land overseen by Denmark.

None of the geopolitics reached the ice, and aggregate Denmark players past week downplayed immoderate transportation betwixt the Greenland concern and the crippled against the U.S. arsenic dense underdogs.

After rolling implicit Latvia 5-1 successful their opener connected Thursday nighttime down 2 goals from Brock Nelson, the Americans person six points successful the standings, the aforesaid arsenic Canada, going into the last time of the preliminary round.

The U.S. wraps up round-robin play against Germany, Canada faces 0-2-0 France and if they each triumph successful regulation, the No. 1 spot successful the single-elimination knockout circular would travel down to extremity differential.

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