Okposo scores winner, adds assist in USA Exhibition win

from usahockey <<The U.S. Men's National Team defeated Sweden 3-2 on Tuesday in its only tuneup game before the 2012 IIHF Men's World Championship, held in Helsinki, Finland, and Stockholm, Sweden. Team USA opens play against France at 5:15 a.m. EDT on Friday.>>

Kyle Okposo scored the winning goal (which made it 3-0 US) after assisting on a Jim Slater goal earlier in the contest.  Okposo had 24 goals for the Isles this past season; only two Team USA teammates (Bobby Ryan and Max Pacioretty) had more

All Team USA games in the tourney will be shown on NBCSN; all but two of the games will be shown live (ironically the two not shown live are the game against Canada and the Gold Medal Game).

TV schedule from USAHockey:

Team USA 2012 IIHF World Men's Championship Schedule
May 4 - 20 • Helsinki, Finland & Stockholm, Sweden
 

Date	Opponent	Location	Time (EDT)	Television
Fri., May 4	France	Helsinki	5:15 a.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Sat., May 5	Canada	Helsinki	12:00 p.m.	NBC Sports Network (Delay/10:30 p.m. ET)
Mon., May 7	Slovakia	Helsinki	1:15 p.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Thurs., May 10	Belarus	Helsinki	9:15 a.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Fri., May 11	Kazakhstan	Helsinki	9:15 a.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Sun., May 13	Finland	Helsinki	9:15 a.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Tues., May 15	Switzerland	Helsinki	1:15 p.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Thurs., May 17	Quarterfinals	Helsinki	TBD	NBC Sports Network (Live)
Sat., May 19	Semifinals	Helsinki	TBD	NBC Sports Network (TBD)
Sun., May 20	Bronze-Medal Game	Helsinki	9:00 a.m.	NBC Sports Network (Live)
	Gold-Medal Game	Helsinki	1:30 p.m.	NBC Sports Network (Delay/9 p.m. ET)

 

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