US routs Norway 9-3 at hockey worlds, Germany stuns Finland

HERNING, Denmark (AP) — Captain Patrick Kane scored two goals for the second straight game and added an assist to lead the United States to a 9-3 victory over Norway for its sixth straight win at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday.

Defending champion Sweden also recorded its sixth win, 5-3 at the expense of Switzerland, while Finland was upset by Germany 3-2 in overtime — a day after the Finnish team outplayed Canada.

The Czech Republic beat France 6-0 for its second consecutive shutout.

Kane scored with a slap shot from the right circle on a power play to open the scoring and added another power play goal almost from the same spot for a 2-0 lead.

The forward leads the tournament with 15 points for five goals and 10 assists.

"A good performance by the team tonight," Kane said. "We had a lot of different guys to contribute and chip in, which is good to see, and give us a lot of confidence going into the next game against Finland."

Dylan Larkin and Cam Atkinson had a goal and a couple assists, Charlie McAvoy got a goal and an assist in another high-scoring victory for the U.S.

"Our goal is to keep winning, to keep getting better," Atkinson said.

Alec Martinez, Anders Lee, Colin White and Neal

Pionk had a goal apiece.

Norway got its goals from Kristian Forsberg, Ken

Andre Olimb and Mathis Olimb.

Forward Patric Hornqvist, who joined the Swedish team after Pittsburgh Penguins' elimination from the NHL playoffs, scored in his first game of the championship against Switzerland.

John Klingberg, Mikael Backlund, Adam Larsson and Magnus Paajarvi also netted for Sweden.

Markus Eisenschmid scored the winner for Germany against Finland two minutes into overtime.

"For us to get a win against a nation that plays such good hockey is pretty big," Germany captain Dennis Seidenberg said.

A day after a 5-1 victory over Canada, Eeli Tolvanen put Finland 1-0 up in the first period when the Germans were held to just two shots on goal.

But they came back in the second period. Frederik Tiffels tied it at 1 and Bjorn Krupp scored for a 2-1 lead. Sebastian Aho scored the equalizer for Finland with 2:06 left in regulation, forcing overtime.

"We were little bit down in the second period," Finland captain Mikael Granlund said. "Their goalie played a great game. Let's move from there and let's get ready for the next one."

Germany goaltender Mathias Niederberger made 36 saves.