PRAGUE -- Canada rallied to maintain a perfect record at the ice hockey world championship by beating Sweden 6-4 on Wednesday for its fourth straight victory.
In other matches, defending champion Russia bounced back from a loss to the United States with a 5-2 victory over Denmark and Latvia and Norway ended their three-game losing streaks by edging Switzerland 2-1 and Slovakia 3-2, respectively.
Buffalo Sabres forward Tyler Ennis wristed a shot high into the net from the left circle on a power play for Canada's winner with 6:29 left in the final period and Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin added the sixth into an empty net with 1:50 to go.
Canada leads Group A with 12 points. Sweden and Switzerland are second with eight.
"That was a battle," Seguin said.
Anton Lander, Victor Rask and Filip Forsberg scored first-period goals to put Sweden, the 2014 bronze medalist, in early command.
Sweden outshot Canada 14-5 in the period, as its players skated fast and appeared more organized than the star-studded Canadian team.
It was Team Canada's first true adversity of the tournament and the Canadians responded in a way that suggests this group could be in for something special, scoring six of the next seven goals to beat Sweden 6-4.
"We had a pretty much big wake-up call in the first," Seguin said. "A lot of guys were talking -- 'We can do better, we can score goals, we can do better defending' -- and we put it all together and came away with three points."
Nathan MacKinnon played for Team Canada last year and has noticed this year's version has a different feel to it.
"There's a bit of more swagger. We're confident, we feel like we can dominate," MacKinnon said. "This is pretty special -- this could be a little mini-Olympic team."
Aaron Ekblad, Taylor Hall -- who scored from a penalty shot for his fifth of the tournament -- and Sean Couturier rallied Canada as their team outshot Sweden 19-9 in the second period.
Oscar Moller restored the Swedish lead from the top of the right circle with 4:41 remaining in the second and Patrick Wiercioch tied it for Canada at 4-4 midway through the third.
"Obviously, our first period was good," said Forsberg, Sweden's Nashville Predators forward who has five goals at the worlds. "After that we kind of sat back too much, let them come and attack. That was the biggest thing. They're a good team, but so are we. It was a good game."
Sergei Mozyakin scored two goals to help Russia to its third win in four games.
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