Garland squeaks by the German defender along the boards and takes the puck toward the net. He dekes around the back of the net and finds an open Tage Thompson, who passes it to Zach Werenski, only to give it straight back to Thompson for a one-timer that beats Phillip Grubauer to give the Americans a 1-0 lead.

USA would score another two goals in the opening frame, one of them being off the stick of another Canucks forward, Drew O’Connor, and head into the first intermission with a 3-0 lead.

The Germans came out firing in the middle frame, scoring three goals in less than eight minutes to tie the game at three before the break.

And that’s when Garland took this game over.

Just four minutes into the third period, Garland broke the tie:

Werenski makes a great play at the blueline to keep the puck in the zone on the power play. The play continues with Utah Mammoth captain Clayton Keller finding his former teammate Garland in the bumper spot – where Bo Horvat used to do his damage – to give the Americans a 4-3 lead.

But he wasn’t done there:

The top line of Keller, Cooley and Garland connect again, with Keller finding Garland at the left circle, who finds Cooley streaming from behind the net on the open side to give the Americans a two-goal lead.

Garland would nab the second assist on Keller’s empty-net goal to secure the 6-3 victory for Team USA.

The Canucks duo and the Americans take on Kazakhstan (1-0-0-4) for their penultimate game on Sunday morning at 7:20 am local time.