Sidney Crosby"s scored goal in game winning...

The Olympic hosts began the game with a goal in the middle of the first period and scored another one some 30 seconds into the second, but the Swiss team answered both goals to retreat for a 15-minute break before the third period at 2-2 draw.

Both teams showed scoreless game in the third period as well as in the following 5-minute sudden-victory overtime period.

Canadian forward Crosby missed his first attempted shoot-out and after two of his teammates also missed their shots he finally scored one, which Swiss center Martin Pluss failed to equal.

Canada, which plays in Group A preliminaries is now second with five points after the United States, which boasts a total of six points after both teams played two games.

Switzerland is a now with one point and the final Group A entrant Norway has zero points losing first game to Canada 0-8 and second game to the United States 1-6.

MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti)