Ilya Kovalchuk notched a goal and an assist in Russia's 5-3 win over Team USA on Tuesday in world championship action.

He has amassed five goals in three games for the unbeaten Russians, who have defeated Latvia, Germany and the U.S to open the tournament. Kovalchuk appears to be fully over the shoulder injury that sidelined him near the end of the regular season.

Ilya Kovalchuk lost an edge and tumbled heavily into the end boards with 15:31 left in Tuesday's win over Montreal.

"It looked almost like the identical play," coach Pete DeBoer said, recalling Kovalchuk's shoulder injury that caused him to miss 11 games. "You cringe a little bit, but he got up no worse for wear." However, in this case he was fine to continue playing and said he was unscathed after the contest.

Ilya Kovalchuk logged a team-high 22:43 minutes in his return from a shoulder injury on Saturday.

Kovalchuk didn't experience any pain, but was unhappy about the fact that he finished with a minus-one rating. "You don't want to be minus when the team wins 6-2," Kovalchuk said. "It doesn't really matter, but still we as a line we want to produce and that's what the coaches want from us. They give us a chance to play on the (power play) and all different situations, so you've got to put the puck in the net." It was Kovalchuk's first game in nearly a month.