Team Canada improves to 2-1 at worlds

Ryan NugentHopkins scored twice as Canada cruised past host Denmark 7-1 Monday at the world hockey championship.

Canada captain Connor McDavid, a teammate of Nugent-Hopkins on the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers, had three assists.

Josh Bailey, Aaron Ekblad, Jordan Eberle, Ryan O’Reilly and Tyson Jost also scored for Canada, which has two regulation wins and a shootout loss through three games.

Aabo Jesper Jensen had the only goal for Denmark.

Canada now sits second in the Group B standings, one point behind the United States heading into its next game Thursday against Norway.

Meanwhile, the Americans beat Germany 3-0 to stay unbeaten and Russia shut out a third straight opponent at the world ice hockey championship on Monday, beating Belarus 6-0.

U.S. captain Patrick Kane broke the deadlock against Germany and assisted on the other two goals in the hard-fought Group B game in Herning.

Germany goalie Niklas Treutle didn’t allow the U.S. to score from 11 shots on goal in the first period. Treutle’s teammates also killed three penalties in the second period.

Kane finally made the breakthrough midway through the game on another power play with a one-timer to the roof of the net.

Just over two minutes later, Derek Ryan added an insurance goal, also on a power play. In the final period, Kane found his Chicago Blackhawks teammate, Alex DeBrincat, in front of the net for the third goal.

U.S. goalie Keith Kinkaid stopped 24 shots for his second straight shutout. It was the third consecutive defeat for Germany, the runner-up at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

The U.S. team faces Latvia next. Veteran captain Pavel Datsyuk led the high-scoring Russians with two goals against Belarus in Group A in Copenhagen.

Maxim Shalunov, Ilya Kablukov, Maxim Mamin and Kirill Kaprizov also scored. Russia has 20 goals in three games.