Sweden, with a trio of Detroit Red Wings including Lucas Raymond, continued its roll through the World Championship Saturday with a 4-0 victory over France in Stockholm.
Raymond’s goal at 13:27 of the first period opened the scoring and proved to be the game-winner. He added an assist. He is tied for second on the team in scoring with seven points (two goals, five assists) in six games.
Sweden (6-0) leads Group A with 18 points and wraps up pool play Monday against unbeaten Canada (4-0, 12 points).
Detroit’s Erik Gustafsson contributed an assist in 18:30. Simon Edvinsson didn’t figure in the scoring but logged 20:09, second on the team.
Samuel Ersson made 15 saves for the shutout. France remains winless at 0-0-1-5 (W-OTW-OTL-L).
USA 6, Germany 3: Connor Garland snapped a 3-3 tie with a power-play goal at 4:50 of the third period and added three assists as the U.S. improved to 3-1-0-1 (11 points).
Team USA raced out to a 3-0 lead after one period on goals by Tage Thompson, Frank Nazar and Drew O’Connor before Germany scored three unanswered goals in the second period to tie it.
Red Wings defenseman and German captain Moritz Seider had no points, three shots and an even plus-minus in 23:56. Germany is 3-0-0-2 (nine points).
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