Marie-Philip Poulin capped a three-goal run by scoring on a penalty shot with 2:35 left within the second interval, and Canada upended the defending Olympic champion United States 4-2 on Tuesday to say the ladies’s hockey event’s prime seed coming into the playoff spherical.
Barring a significant upset, the 2 international hockey powers are anticipated to fulfill as soon as extra within the gold-medal closing subsequent week.
In a fierce rivalry courting to earlier than the ladies’s first Olympic event on the 1998 Nagano Video games, and gained by the Individuals, the US and Canada placed on yet one more entertaining present on the Beijing Video games in a fast-paced outing, with each groups buying and selling leads.
Brianne Jenner scored twice, Poulin had a purpose and help and Jamie Lee Rattray additionally scored for Canada, who improved their Olympic report to 6-3 towards the US. Anne-Renee Desbiens stopped 51 photographs.
Alex Carpenter and Dani Cameranesi scored for the Individuals. Maddie Rooney stopped 23 photographs in getting her second begin of the event. She’s probably the most skilled of America’s trio, and backstopped the US within the 2018 gold medal-winning recreation, however missed final yr’s world championships whereas recovering from an harm.
Canada (4-0) and the US (3-1) are the event’s prime seeds, and mixed to out-score every of their first three opponents by a margin of 47-5. Their quarter-final matchups gained’t be set till Finland performs Denmark to find out the Group B standings later within the day.
The sport turned in Canada’s favor after Cameranesi, who transformed her personal rebound, and Carpenter, with a backhander on the ability play, scored about two minutes aside to place the Individuals up 2-1 with 11:34 remaining within the second interval.
The Canadians answered 26 seconds later with Sarah Nurse’s spin-around backhand cross organising Jenner for a one-timer in entrance. Rattray scored the go-ahead purpose 2:25 later by tapping in Natalie Spooner’s centering cross.
The wheels fell off for the Individuals whereas urgent for the tying purpose on the ability play. Poulin intercepted Jincy Dunne’s cross throughout the blue line and took off on a breakaway. Poulin’s shot was stopped by Rooney, however the Canadian captain was awarded a penalty shot with Cayla Barnes referred to as for hooking.
Poulin, dubbed ‘Captain Clutch for scoring Olympic gold-medal-clinching targets in 2010 and 2014, got here in from the left facet and whereas driving throughout the crease flicked the puck inside left publish with Rooney already shifting the opposite method.
In out-shooting the Canadians 53-27 general, the Individuals had their share of probabilities however continued having problem ending, much like a 5-0 win over the Russian group on Saturday through which the US had a 62-12 shot edge. The US energy play unit transformed solely considered one of six probabilities.
The struggles had been readily obvious within the opening interval, when the Individuals had a 14-2 edge in photographs earlier than Canada opened the scoring on Jenner’s power-play purpose 14:10 in. Poulin started the play on the prime of the left circle by feeding the puck down low to Sarah Fillier, who instantly centered it to Jenner for a tap-in.
The Individuals are the defending Olympic champions following a 3-2 shootout win in 2018, ending Canada’s four-tournament run of titles. The Canadians are the defending world champions following a 3-2 additional time win in August, which ended the US’s five-tournament run of titles.
Canada performed its third recreation minus second-line ahead Melodie Daoust, who's listed as everyday after being harm in a tournament-opening 12-1 win over Switzerland. The US is predicted so as to add Britta Curl to its lineup later this week to interchange Brianna Decker, who broke her left ankle within the tournament-opening 5-2 win over Finland.
Referee Cianna Lieffers left the sport 1:35 into the second interval after being struck within the face by American participant Amanda Kessel’s stick. Lieffers returned later within the interval.
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