Olympic Hockey 2014: Paul Stastny Leads The USA Rout Of Slovakia!

Paul Stastny has always taken so much as pride in wearing the USA jersey as his papa, Peter, owned wearing the Slovakia sweatshirt.

Unquestionably, some of his relatives should have had mixed feelings Thursday when Paul scored a couple of goals to assist power USA into a 7-1 shellacking of Slovakia of their opening game of the Olympic men's hockey tournament.

'It's always fun in order to play Slovakia,' Stastny said prior to tournament. 'Parents, a lot of family are from the Slovakia, so it is always something unique and I quite like doing.'

Paul's papa, Peter, played in the 1980 Olympics for Czechoslovakia and then carried the Slovakian flag within the opening ceremony in 1994.

As outlined by Paul, his parents are rooting to the USA in this contest. 'Blood's more significant, so family 1st,' Paul said. 'They are the biggest US lovers. I am not devised about that.'

Paul is the veteran of international engage within. 'I have never beaten these guys so this was nice to obtain it on my 3rd try, ' said Stastny. 'On this specific stage its good.'

Phil Kessel also had the goal and two assists to the Americans (1-0) in front of a crowd of 4, 119. He had ten goals in his last 12 NHL games prior to break.

'He is upon fire, ' linemate James van Riemsdyk said. 'It is fun to play with him as well as the game is coming simple to him right now.'

Dustin brown, Ryan Kesler, John Carlson along with David Backes also scored for your USA.

'We did a excellent job of getting bodies in front of (Slovakia goalie Jaroslav Halak),' said Backes. 'We obtained some ugly ones, and then some people were simply fantastic shots.'

The Americans scored six times within the second period to link an a US Olympic record for many goals in a period, established within 1956, and then tied 3 times from the 1960 Olympic gold medal team and then again by the 1964 team as well as the 2010 team.

Detroit Red Wings swindler Tomas Tatar obtained Slovakia's only goal next to U. S. goalie Jonathan Quick with a wicked wrist shot from on the left wing circle. Replays showed he was actually offside within the play.

The Slovakia team is regarded a dangerous team within the tournament because it offers Zdeno Chara and Marian Hossa, between others. The team's chief trouble is depth. It didn't help when Marian Gaborik needed to pull out because of the injury.

The Americans now play for just a showdown against Russia upon Saturday (7: 30 A. M. ET).

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