Canada 5, Kopitar 1
The IIHF World Hockey Championships opened today, and Canada beat Slovenia 5-1 in a pool-play game in Halifax. Anze Kopitar scored the only goal for Slovenia. Kopitar's father, Matjaz, is an assistant coach for Slovenia. The United States, with Dustin Brown and Patrick O'Sullivan, plays Latvia at 4:15 p.m. Pacific time.
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Rich Hammond has covered the Kings, on a full-time or part-time basis, since the 2000-01 season. He was the beat writer for the entire John Torchetti era and has witnessed Bob Miller singing country music in a Nashville honky-tonk bar. A native of Los Angeles, Rich has worked at the Daily News since 1999 and also serves as the paper's deputy sports editor. E-mail Rich at rich.hammond@dailynews.com.
Scored the only goal.
He's probably the entire team.
Actually, the goaltender, Kristan, saved 60 of 65. Looked pretty good in the highlights I saw. Had one soft goal but also showed a lot of mobility and quickness.
Kristan, the goalie, saved 60 of 65 shots?! Damn, maybe the Kings should sign him too. But only if he's coming off major knee surgery....