ZURICH (AP) \u2014 Hungary shut out Britain 5-0 at the ice hockey world championship Tuesday for its first victory at this year’s tournament.<\/p>\n
Krisztian Nagy and Istvan Terbocs scored two goals each and Bence Balizs stopped 26 shots in a Group A game in Zurich.<\/p>\n
Britain, a newcomer to the top division, remains pointless and risks immediate relegation if it doesn’t improve.<\/p>\n
Earlier in Zurich, Benjamin Nissner scored a power-play goal in the third period to help Austria beat Latvia 3-1.<\/p>\n
Austria’s third straight win put it level on points with Switzerland and Finland atop Group A.<\/p>\n
Tim Harnisch’s second-period goal gave Austria a 1-0 lead before Latvia captain Rudolfs Balcers tied it early in the third with his tournament-leading fourth goal.<\/p>\n
After Nissner’s go-ahead goal, Vinzenz Rohrer added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n
In Group B in Fribourg, Slovakia needed a penalty shootout to prevail over Slovenia 5-4.<\/p>\n
Slovakia was leading 4-3 when Rok Ticar tied it for Slovenia with 0:31 remaining in regulation. No goal was scored in overtime and Slovakia won the shootout 3-1.<\/p>\n
Slovakia trails group leader Canada by one point.<\/p>\n
In the same group, Norway blanked Italy 4-0 for its second victory and second shutout.<\/p>\n
Eskild Bakke Olsen, Noah Steen, Christian Kaasastul and Tinus Luc Koblar had a goal each while goaltender Henrik Haukeland stopped all 30 shots he faced.<\/p>\n
Italy, another newcomer, remains without a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH (AP) \u2014 Hungary shut out Britain 5-0 at the ice hockey world championship Tuesday for its first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1342,36949,36944,36946,36943,36947,25937,24204,24203,25934,6172,17,36945,36948],"class_list":["post-68490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-austria","tag-benjamin-nissner","tag-christian-kaasastul","tag-henrik-haukeland","tag-ice-hockey-worlds","tag-noah-steen","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-slovakia","tag-switzerland","tag-tim-harnisch","tag-vinzenz-rohrer"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116603765576045282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}