The US snapped Sweden's four-game winning streak, winning 5-1 Sunday night in ice hockey's World Championship while Russia ended the Czech Republic's unbeaten string 2-1.
Mike Knuble, Yan Stastny, Erik Cole, Mike Modano and Brian Gionta scored for the US, which moved to five points and second place in the Group F standings.
Two-time defending champion Canada, which tied Finland 3-3 earlier, also has five while Sweden kept the lead with six points.
In another Group E game, Slovakia beat Switzerland 3-1.
Goalie Rick DiPietro made the play of the game at Innsbruck's Olympiahalle, setting up Stastny with a cross-ice pass for a shorthanded goal that made it 2-0 at 6:21 in the second period.
"I took a quick peak. Originally I was going to threw it out and ice it to kill some time," DiPietro said. "But then I saw Yan out there. He made a great job on the breakaway. It was a big game for us. To put a performance like this was a big confidence boost for our guys."
After taking the pass, Stastny skated in all alone and beat Swedish goalie Henrik Lundqvist.
It was the second goal in the tournament for Stastny, a world championship rookie and the son of former National Hockey League all-star Peter Stastny of Slovakia.
"The way he [DiPietro] handles the puck, it's like having a third defenseman out there, making a cross-ice pass like that and hit a guy in the stride like he did," Stastny said.
Johan Franzen scored a late goal for Sweden, roofing an angled shot past DiPietro to spoil the American goalie's shutout bid.
In Vienna, Ilya Kovalchuk and Andrei Semin scored for Russia, which had not defeated the Czechs since 2002 in the worlds.
"It was our big wish to win this game. We expected it to be tough and asked our players to concentrate on defense mainly," Russia coach Vladimir Krikunov said.
The Czechs dominated the first and third periods, but only managed to get the puck past Russian goalie Maxim Sokolov once, when David Vyborny scored on the power play at 16:32 in the opening period following a pass from Jaromir Jagr.
"We expected a close scoreline with maybe one or maximum two goals difference. Therefore, we tried to shoot from the best possible angles," Krikunov added.
Kovalchuk tied the score during a man advantage at 12:59 in the second period, and Semin got the winner, again on the power play, midway through the final period.
"I have to say that the Czechs had a good few opportunities to tie the game, but Sokolov was excellent and we were lucky, when needed," Krikunov said.
Czech coach Vladimir Ruzicka claimed his team "lost the game in the second period. We had a couple of power-play chances, but we did not capitalize on them."
The win puts Russia in top spot in Group E, level on six points with the Czechs. However, the Russians remain the only unbeaten team in the entire tournament.
Slovakia is third with five points and Switzerland fourth with three points.
In the early Group F game, Rick Nash and Patrick Marleau scored 51 seconds apart midway through the last period, helping Canada earn a point against Finland.
Nash started the comeback at Innsbruck's Olympiahalle by taking a high rebound and pushing the puck in the air past the Finnish goalie Niklas Backstrom gave up for his tournament-leading eighth goal.
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