The coach of Russia's junior hockey team and former NHL player was the picture of frustration at the post-game news conference after his team lost 6-2 to Canada on Friday and their third straight to the visitors to start this Super Series.

The Canadians aim to sweep the Russian leg of the eight-game event, which was put together to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series, before the Canadian half of the series opens Tuesday in Winnipeg.

Game 4 of the junior Super Series is Saturday (TSN, 6 a.m. ET) in the second of back-to-back games at the new Arena Omsk.

"The third game in a series is an important game," Canadian head coach Brent Sutter said. "But our mindset as a team is it's one day at a time.



"Every game we treat like it's an even series. We don't get caught up in what the series might be."

Russia showed flickers of getting back into the series in the first and second periods of Game 3 by twice pulling within a goal, but Canada put a stopper in that growing confidence by scoring three times in the third period.

The University of Wisconsin's Kyle Turris and Niagara IceDogs forward Stefan Legein each scored their third goals in as many games.

Canada also got contributions from Claude Giroux of the Gatineau Olympiques, Sam Gagner of the London Knights, Zach Boychuk of the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Colton Gillies of the Saskatoon Blades.

Leland Irving of the Everett Silvertips earned the victory with 32 saves. London's Steve Mason, the 40-save winner of Game 1, will start in net on Saturday.

Pavel Doronin scored a short-handed goal in the first period and Alexander Ryabin collected his second of the series in front of a sellout crowd of 10,000 spectators in the first hockey game played at Arena Omsk.

Goaltender Semen Varlamov, a draft pick of the Washington Capitals, continued to struggle. He was replaced after the first period by Vadim Zhelobnyuk after allowing three goals on four shots and took his second loss of the series.

Russia is without star forward Alexei Cherepanov for the series due to a concussion he suffered in a collision with Brandon Sutter in the first period of Game 2 in Ufa.

Sutter was penalized for charging on the play. The Russians didn't press for further discipline.

Cherepanov was the first Russian taken in this year's NHL draft at 17th overall to the Rangers and his absence Friday was a major blow for a team trying to gain ground in this series.

"It's a big loss for us, but hockey is a team sport and we have lots of good players," Nemchinov said. "We have to play harder and smarter."

Canada had a tougher time forcing Russia to the outside when the two sides were at even strength than in Game 2. But the Canadians continued to carry a huge edge in special teams with four power-play goals Friday and a penalty kill that has now held Russia scoreless on 25 chances over three games, including a few five-on-threes.

"Special teams reflected the score," Sutter said. "Our penalty killing was huge again tonight. Tonight we were down two men for quite lengthy periods of time and our (penalty kill) was able to shut them down."

Russia's short-handed goal and another scoring chance while a man down later in the game were among the few hitches in Canada's game.

"We were clicking tonight on the power play and even at times we were overhandling the puck because we were doing so well," Turris said. "We've got to keep it simple and we can't give up any short-handed chances like that again."

Brad Marchand saw his ice time reduced after taking a misconduct in the opening three minutes for giving a Russian player some of his stick after a whistle.

"You just can't do that," Sutter said. "That's putting yourself ahead of your teammates."

While the temperature in Omsk easily hit 30 C, it was not as humid as it had been in Ufa and thus the players didn't have to deal with the dense fog that formed on the ice in Game 2.

But as it had been with Ufa's new arena, Arena Omsk was a hive of activity during the day Friday in a rush to prep it for opening night.

It was a long, hot bus ride to the game for the Canadian team that ran into heavy traffic within two kilometres of the rink."

"There was no air conditioning. Guys were sweating their butts off and starting to swear," Turris said. "But that's all part of the experience here in Omsk. It was quite an adventure but we got here and played our game."

CP player of the game - Kyle Turris. The third overall pick in this year's NHL draft by the Phoenix Coyotes scored Canada's second goal of the game for a 2-0 cushion and was a major contributor to the effectiveness of special teams. When Canada was two men down in the first period, he stole the puck, drove the net and drew a penalty to cut Russia's advantage down to one extra man.

Notes: In Game 3 of the 1972 Summit Series, the two countries tied 4-4 in Winnipeg to make it 1-1-1 . . . Scratches from Canada's lineup Friday were goaltender Jonathan Bernier, defenceman Ty Wishart and forward Zach Hamill . . . Russian sports minister and former NHLer Slava Fetisov and Russian Ice Hockey Federation president Vladislav Tretiak held a news conference prior to the game praising the new arena in Omsk. Tretiak said Russia should have won Game 1, but the team's defence needed to be more effective.