2016 Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship

DAY 7 Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship

April 4, 2016

GOLD MEDAL MATCHUP CANADA VS. UNITED STATES TONIGHT, 7:30 P.M. SANDMAN CENTRE

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4 WOMEN’S WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP CANADA HOLDS OFF FINLAND, WILL FACE U.S. FOR GOLD Finland was the cure for what ailed Canada’s top line.

Playing the Scandinavian nation for the second time in as many games, the trio of Meghan Agosta, Marie-Philip Poulin and Natalie Spooner scored four times as Canada beat Finland 5-3 and booked its ticket to tonight’s gold-medal game against the United States.

Puck drop is 7:30 p.m. at Sandman Centre.

“I feel like I’ve had so many chances throughout the tournament and just couldn’t bury,” Spooner said after the game.

She finished the semifinal with three goals and an assist.

“It was nice to finally get a few today, going into tomorrow [Monday].”

The Poulin line has been among Canada’s best in Kamloops, but the points have failed to follow the opportunities. Entering last night’s semifinal against the Finns, Agosta had just one assist and Spooner, two. Poulin had been the best of the three, she with two goals and an assist.

But yesterday, the line found a way.

“Our line, we’ve had so many great chances, we’ve been playing hard,” Agosta said.

She finished with a goal, her first of

the tournament.

“It felt good. It has been a while.

Again, just can’t get frustrated, just have to continue playing and again, it’s going to come and it did.”

With Canada trailing the Finns 1-0, Spooner tipped home her first goal of the tournament. With the game deadlocked and Meeri Räisänen standing on her head in the Finnish crease, Agosta knocked in a rebound to erase the zero in her goal column and give Canada a 2-1 lead.

In the third, with Canada holding firmly to a slim lead, one of their best penalty killers in the box, it was Spooner who blocked a shot and earned a breakaway.

With a defender all over her, gave Canada a valuable two-goal cushion.

Oh — and Poulin had three assists.

When it mattered most, Canada’s best were at their best.

“I was really happy that we actually had that kind of a game heading into tomorrow — we’re now battle tested,” Canada’s head coach Laura Schuler said after the game.

Tested the Canadians were. Leading 3-1 and with more than eight minutes remaining in the third period, the Finns

made an unusual decision and pulled Räisänen while on the power play. They didn’t score, but tried the same thing about two minutes later and slipped the puck past Canadian goaltender Charline Labonté to draw within one.

When Canada took a penalty with about three minutes left, they did it again.

But it was then that Blayre Turnbull scored her first goal in a Canadian jersey to put Canada ahead 4-2. Spooner added her third into the empty net and the hats rained down on the Sandman Centre ice.

It was close, but the Canadians held on.

With the victory, Canada will face the Americans tonight for the gold medal, for the 17th time in the tournament’s 17-year history.

It’s a short turnaround, but Canada’s team said it will be ready.

The top line is finding the net just in time.

“We’re used to this, we’re used to playing in a tournament style,” Spooner said. “I think we’ve just got to look at the positives — we had a battle today and we’re going to be ready for that tomorrow [Monday].

“We know it’s going to be a battle. It’s going to be a battle against the U.S., too.”

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6 WOMEN’S WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP EAGLE CLAWS THE BEAR AS U.S. BLANKS RUSSIA The United States saved its most dominant win of the tournament for yesterday’s semifinal and booked its ticket to the gold-medal game against Canada in resounding fashion.

The Americans defeated the Russians 9-0 in yesterday’s semifinal at the 2016 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Kamloops, outshooting Russia 40-17 and winning by the largest margin of any victory in the 2016 tournament.

“I think this is maybe the best game of the tournament we’ve played,” U.S. head coach Ken Klee said following the game.

Thirteen American skaters had at least a point in the contest. Hilary Knight continued to lead the US, notching two goals and two assists against the Russians, while Megan Bozek, Monique Lamoureux, Brianna Decker, Kelli Stack, Jocelyn LamoureuxDavidson and Kacey Bellamy all had finished with multi-point games.

“For me, that’s what’s important,” Klee said of the contributions from throughout his lineup.

“The depth of our player pool is great, we obviously have a great team, we don’t want to be a one-trick pony and

just have one line to rely on scoring and other lines do other things.”

The Americans scored their first goal seven minutes into yesterday’s game, Stack’s first of two on the afternoon.

Lamoureux-Davidson, Bozek, Knight and captain Meghan Duggan all scored before the break, giving the U.S. a 5-0 lead heading into the second period.

Lamoureux-Davidson and Stack both added their second goals of the night in the middle stanza, sandwiching Decker’s only goal of the game.

Knight put the final nail in the coffin in the third, scoring her second goal of the game to give the U.S. its final push to a 9-0 victory.

After the game, the Americans weren’t concerned about any negative effects from facing an inferior opponent in their semifinal, instead buoyed by their own dominance.

“Obviously, any time you can get a big win in the semifinals, it gives you a lot of energy and fire going into the final,” Duggan said.

“We’re excited. Obviously, we put ourselves in the exact position that we wanted to be in. So, we’ll enjoy today’s

win until we leave the locker room and then we refocus on tomorrow’s [Monday’s] game.”

American Alex Rigsby was perfect between the pipes, stopping all 17 shots for the U,S,’s second shutout in as many games against the Russians. Anna Prugova, meanwhile, was chased from the Russian net in the first period and replaced by Nadezhda Morozova, whose fortunes were much the same.

The United States will now look to win their fifth consecutive game in Kamloops in today’s gold-medal final.

The Russians, meanwhile, will face Finland this afternoon for bronze.

A victory today would give the Americans their third consecutive world championship and sixth in seven years.

The United States last won three consecutive world championships from 2008 to 2011.

“I think when we came to this tournament, you put yourself in the gold-medal game and then you try to play your best game,” Klee said.

“Now, we’ve achieved the first part of that, so now we’ve just got to look to do the second.”

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TEAM U.S.A. Winner of five of the last six IIHF Women’s World Championship tournaments, the United States is a powerhouse in women’s hockey and it’s no surprise the squad will be playing for world championship gold this evening in Kamloops.

Puck drop for the gold-medal game against Canada is 7:30 p.m. at Sandman Centre.

The Americans have found their footing in the women’s hockey game over the last decade and are second to only Canada in gold medals won at the world championship, with six to the Canada’s 10.

The U.S. and Canada have gone back and forth trading blows in the pinnacle of women’s hockey, with the Americans making a recent run of golds in the world championship, but the Canadians grabbing four of five Olympic gold medals in the sport.

In Kamloops, Hilary Knight has again

led the American attack. Heading into yesterday’s semifinal against the Russians, the 26-year-old, who was named best forward in the 2015 world championship in Malmö, Sweden, had scored five of the U.S.’s 13 goals in the tournament and led all Americans in goals and points.

The U.S. had more players — six — in the top 20 in scoring than any other nation heading into semifinal action.

Monique Lamoureux, Brianna Decker, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, Kendall Coyne and Shiann Darkangelo round out the top American point getters.

The United States has a team heavy with talent. Five players on the American roster — goaltender Jessie Vetter and forwards Alex Carpenter, Meghan Duggan, Decker and Coyne — were once winners of the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top female college hockey player in the United States.

In addition to those in the scoring race, Duggan, the American captain, lends an experienced hand to the forward group, while defenceman Kacey Bellamy can be counted on to have a big game when it matters most.

Speaking to KTW before the tournament, general manager Reagan Carey shied away from naming her team the favourite in Kamloops, but said she expected her girls to have a strong tournament on Canadian soil.

“I think we’re always looking to prove ourselves and going into every tournament, that’s an opportunity,” she said.

“It’s a new team — it’s not the same roster for most teams going into the tournament. So, every time, it’s a new goal. While it’s nice to know there has been a lot of recent success in the world championships for us, we’re looking at each game at a time.”

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this week, after falling in a quarterfinal matchup against Finland in last year’s world championship in Malmö, Sweden, and winning a bronze medal at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

The program will look to regain its footing in the 2017 world championship.

SWISS SWEEP SENDS JAPAN OUT OF MAIN TOURNEY Japan won’t be returning to the IIHF Women’s World Championship next season.

The Japanese lost 4-0 to Switzerland in Game 2 of the bestof-three relegation round series on McArthur Island yesterday afternoon, losing their spot in the 2017 world championship in Plymouth, Mich.

The Swiss won back-to-back games in the series — 3-1 on Friday — and staved off relegation in 2016.

The European nation outscored the Japanese 7-1 in the relegation round.

Evelina Raselli picked up her first point of the two-game series in the first period, opening the scoring midway through the frame to put Switzerland out to a 1-0 lead.

A little more than a minute into the second, Anja Stiefel extended the lead to 2-0, beating Japanese goaltender Akane Konishi, who was seeing her first action in the 2016 world championship.

Lara Stadler scored in 1:14 later, her third point of the night and seventh of the tournament, to put the Swiss ahead 3-0. She would also

factor in on the Swiss’ fourth goal.

Switzerland’s Christine Hueni picked up points on all four of her team’s goals on Sunday — she scored the empty-net marker to make it 4-0 — bringing her team leading total to 10 points, including four goals, in five games.

At the other end of the ice, Swiss goaltender Florence Schelling stopped all 20 Japanese shots for the shutout. Konishi finished the night with 19 saves on 23 shots.

The Japanese have played in the world championship’s elite group six times and will look to book a return for 2018 by winning the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship Division 1 Group A tournament next year.

Meanwhile, for Switzerland, the relegation-round victory preempted what would have been a disastrous finish for the Swiss program in Kamloops.

Despite playing in Group B in the 2016 World Championship, Switzerland was expected to have an outside shot at a medal-round finish

Classification round Sweden scored three times in a span of two minutes to erase a 2-0 Czech Republic lead in classification game to determine fifth and sixth place.

The goals, coming to start the third period, ended any hope the Czechs had of winning the game on McArthur Island as they fell 4-2.

With the win, Sweden finished fifth in Kamloops, while the Czech Republic finished sixth.

Olympic qualification By virtue of finishing in the top six in Kamloops, the United States, Canada, Finland, Sweden and Russia have secured enough points in the world ranking system to qualify for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Sweden and Russia overtook Switzerland, which dropped from fourth to sixth and will look to pick up its Olympic berth in a qualification tournament in 2017.

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There’s not much Hayley Wickenheiser hasn’t done.

A five-time Olympic gold medallist and 12-time world champion, the 37-year-old Wickenheiser is playing in her 13th IIHF Women’s World Championship in Kamloops — her first was the 1994 tournament in Lake Placid — and is on the verge of winning her 13th medal in the Maple Leaf in 2016.

“It’s great to play in Canada here,” Wickenheiser said this week. “The crowds have been awesome — it’s a hockey town, so I’ve always liked coming here.”

Few could argue that Wickenheiser is the greatest player to ever suit up for Hockey Canada’s women’s program.

She was the nation’s all-time leader in games played (273), goals (168), assists (208) and points (376) heading into last night’s semifinal against Finland and holds nearly every Canadian record for a forward at the women’s world championship.

She captained Canada to a goldmedal victory in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver — one of the most pressure-packed situations a player could face — and tied for sixth in tournament scoring with 11 points, including 2 goals, in five games.

The native of Shaunavon, Sask., has been playing with the women’s national team since she was 15 years old and has inspired countless players to take up hockey in hopes of one day playing for Canada.

Despite 22 years in the Canadian red and white, and with all her accomplishments, the world championship has never grown tiresome for Wickenheiser.

“Every worlds is special, every worlds is exciting, especially in Canada,” she said. “You always relish those opportunities to play in Canada, in front of a home crowd, because you don’t get them very often. It’s something I certainly don’t take for granted.”

There was a time when it seemed like Wickenheiser’s career might be over, a lingering foot issue threatening to end her decades-long reign in the women’s game. But a surgery in 2015 — which inserted a metal plate and eight screws in her left foot — saved

her career.

She now hopes to still be on Hockey Canada’s radar when the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea come around.

Her teammates are just as hopeful she’ll be there.

“Hayley, she’s just an unbelievable person,” said Canadian forward Meghan Agosta, whose first major tournament with Wickenheiser was the 4 Nations Cup in 2004.

“She’s an amazing player. Her leadership and experience alone, what she brings to the team is something that you can’t teach. I’m happy that she’s on our team — I’m really close to Hayley,” Agosta said.

“She has had an amazing career here with Hockey Canada. I know that she wants to continue playing and I know that she can and what she brings to this team is special and something that we need.”

Wickenheiser is no stranger to the Tournament Capital — she remembers playing softball here in her youth at the Canada Summer Games and has visited Kamloops throughout her career on the diamond.

As if being the best player in the history of Canadian women’s hockey wasn’t enough, she also represented Canada in the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, as a member of Canada’s national softball team.

Wickenheiser has truly done it all.

And though she has more hockey games behind her than in front of her, she’s still a leader in the Team Canada dressing room.

Nowadays, though, she’s giving advice to players who grew up watching her, some of whom weren’t yet born when Wickenheiser played in her first world championship.

“It’s a little strange, when they show me pictures of us and I had taken a picture with them when they were a kid,” Wickenheiser said. “We have a lot of good laughs at that. It’s kind of strange in a way that time has gone by, but it’s the evolution of the game, as well.

“I try. If they ask me for advice or anything, I’ll pass it along. Otherwise, I just let them do their thing.”

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