TORONTO (AP) — Time is running out for the United States at the World Cup of Hockey.
And it has only played one game.
A loss to Team Europe on Saturday turned the pressure up for the U.S. going into its showdown against Canada on Tuesday. Lose that game, and it's pretty much over.
"That's our championship game," coach John Tortorella said Sunday. "We knew we'd have to go through Canada. That game has just come earlier for us here right now, and that's the way we're approaching it."
The Americans better be in championship form after getting shut out 3-0 by Europe, a team made up of players from Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Norway, Slovenia and France that had never played together before.