CANADA WINS OPENER AGAINST NORWAY BY THE SCORE OF 8-0

Yesterday afternoon in Vancouver, Canada's men's hockey team played there opening game against Norway and got off to a great start with a 8-0 win. In that victory, Jarome Iginla
had a hat-trick in his 3rd Olympic appearance. "I thought the chemistry was good in camp," said Nash afterwards. "People just have to remember it was the first time we ever skated together. As we get practicing tomorrow and then into another game, it's just going to get better and better. Towards the end, we started to figure each other's game out." The first period of the game Norways goaltender was keeping them in the game but it didn't last for long as in the second the scored 3 goals and in the third they scored 5 goals.

"With the different tie-breakers and things, goals matter," said defenceman Chris Pronger. "I don't think you want to completely bury a team, but we're certainly not going to stop shooting the puck, or stop going to the net. We don't want to create any bad habits for our team. They can creep in pretty quickly if you let your foot off the gas pedal."In the victory Louongo made 15 saves for the shutout. Canada's next game will be on Thursday against Switzerland.

Written By Andrew Di Pardo

GAME SUMMARY

SCORING
CAN 0 3 5 - 8
NOR 0 0 0 - 0

First Period

No scoring

Penalties - Weber CAN (high sticking) 7:39, Jakobsen NOR (hooking) 13:09, Spets NOR (holding) 17:59.

Second Period

1. CAN, Iginla (Crosby, Doughty) 2:30 (PPG)
2. CAN, Heatley (Pronger, Thornton) 4:27
3. CAN, Richards (Bergeron, Weber) 11:06

Penalties - Hansen NOR (holding) :43, Bergeron CAN (interference) 7:54, Staal CAN (tripping) 9:06, Bastiansen NOR (tripping) 14:37, Heatley CAN (slashing) 18:33.

Third Period

4. CAN, Getzlaf (Niedermayer, Toews) 4:29
5. CAN, Heatley (Marleau, Boyle) 6:43 (PPG)
6. CAN, Iginla (Nash, Crosby) 7:36
7. CAN, Perry (Staal, Boyle) 11:03
8. CAN, Iginla (Nash, Crosby) 18:11

Penalties - Crosby CAN (roughing) 1:23, Jakobsen NOR (hooking) 6:43, Bastiansen NOR (high sticking) 18:57.

SHOTS ON GOAL
CAN 14 16 12 - 42
NOR 4 6 5 - 15

Goaltenders (goals-shots against) - CAN: Luongo (W,0-15); SUI: Grotnes (L, 4-32), Lysenstoen (4-10).

Power plays (goals-chances) - CAN: 2-6; NOR: 0-5.