Grateful Gooner

US 4 – 1 Kazakhstan

// February 16th, 2006 // Hockey

The US bounced back from yesterday’s less than impressive display against Latvia with a good performance against Kazakhstan.

Two first period power-play goals by Brian Rolston and Brian Gionta along with an even-strength score by Bill Guerin made it 3-0 after twenty minutes.

Mike Modano made it 4-1 at 11:53 of the third, 51 seconds after Yevgeniy Koreshkov scored for Kazakhstan on its first third-period shot.

Rick DiPietro of the Islanders started in net today for the US, and only faced 11 shots, turning away 10.

This weekend sees two games for the US; Saturday @ Noon against Slovakia and Sunday @ 10:30 AM against Sweden. Both games are going to be televised on NBC.