Russian hockey players defeated the US team and reached the quarterfinals of the Olympics
The match ended with a score of 4:0 in favor of the Russians. In the first period, Oleg Znark's team scored one goal into the opponent's goal. Nikolai Prokhorkin scored in the 8th minute. At the beginning of the second period, Prokhorkin doubled the lead, and then Ilya Kovalchuk brought the score to a big one. In the third period, Kovalchuk scored a double and set the final result of the meeting.