New York Islanders center Brock Nelson scored his team-leading fifth and sixth goals of the tournament to give the Americans a 2-0 lead over Slovenia after 20 minutes at the World Hockey Championship in the Czech Republic.
Nelson opened the scoring at 4:17 of the first period putting home a Mike Reilly feed short side on Robert Kristan.
The 23-year-old gave the U.S. a 2-0 lead, on a power play, at 16:32 of the opening period burying the rebound off of Justin Faulk’s point shot.
Ales Music has Slovenia on the board early in the second.