For all their considerable possession, the Red Devils failed to create another clear-cut chance before the interval as the first period petered out after such a sparkling opening.
Capello's side inevitably had an experimental appearance - and how it showed in a first period when England were inferior to Mexico and yet somehow established a lead by the interval.
After the interval, 29-year-old Heatley added a second for Canada but with four minutes left of the period, Drury, of the New York Rangers, gave his side the lead again.