Terry scores winner as Americans beat Russians 3-2 at world juniors
TORONTO — The United States ended a near decade-long losing streak against Russia on Thursday at the world junior hockey championship.
Troy Terry’s second-period goal stood as the winner as the U.S. beat Russia 3-2 for its first victory over the Russians at the under-20 tournament since 2007, a stretch of five consecutive losses.
“Especially with the history that we have, the core group of (national team development program) players we have, they’ve beat us the past couple times so that made it a little sweeter to beat them,” said Terry.
The win temporarily moved the U.S. ahead of Canada in the Group B standings, but the Canadians beat Latvia 10-2 later Thursday evening to match the Americans at 3-0-0 and nine points.