World championships: Heatley's goal lifts Canada over U.S.

Dany Heatley scored in the final minute for the Canadians at the world hockey championships.

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Last update: May 7, 2008 - 7:48 AM

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Dany Heatley scored the winning goal with 46.8 seconds remaining to lift Canada to a 5-4 victory Tuesday over the United States at the world hockey championships.

It was Heatley's second goal of the game in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Wild defenseman Brent Burns, Jonathan Toews and Derek Roy also scored for the Canadians (3-0), and Cam Ward stopped 29 shots.

"We played really hard right to the end," Canada's Ryan Getzlaf said. "We take pride in those kind of wins. We were raised that way."

Zach Parise, Patrick O'Sullivan, Dustin Brown and Jason Pominville scored for the Americans (2-1).

Earlier in Quebec City, Washington Capitals teammates Alex Ovechkin and Sergei Fedorov each scored a goal, helping Russia defeat Denmark 4-1.

Maxim Afinogenov and Konstantin Gorovikov also scored for Russia and Ilya Kovalchuk of the Atlanta Thrashers had two assists in the game at Quebec City. Russia improved to 3-0 in the preliminary round.

Kim Staal scored for Denmark (1-2). The Russians peppered Danish goaltender Patrick Galbraith with 43 shots. Mikhail Biryukov made 19 saves for Russia.

In other games, the Czech Republic beat Italy 7-2 and Latvia blanked Slovenia 3-0.

Fedorov, who assisted on Ovechkin's goal, scored on a tipped point shot on a power play in the second period. It was Fedorov's first world championship goal since 1990, when he last played in the tournament for the Soviet Union.

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