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Aerin Frankel stopped 21 shots for her 3rd shutout of the Olympic women's hockey tourney and the favored United States precocious to the gold-medal crippled by defeating Sweden 5-0 astatine the Milan Cortina Games on Monday.
Abbey Murphy, Kendall Coyne Schofield and Hayley Scamurra scored connected consecutive shots implicit a 2:47 precocious successful the 2nd play to stroke the crippled unfastened and enactment the Americans up 5-0. Cayla Barnes opened the scoring and Taylor Heise besides scored.
The Americans continued their rotation done the tourney by improving to 6-0, and outscoring their opponents by a combined 31-1. The U.S. has yet to way oregon beryllium tied aft 0-0, and is successful a presumption to go the 3rd women's squad to bash truthful implicit the full tournament, joining Canada successful 2006 and 2010.
The U.S. besides extended its shutout streak to 331 minutes, 23 seconds, going backmost to Czechia's Barbora Jurickova beating Frankel connected a breakaway successful the 2nd play of a tournament-opening 5-1 win.
Monday's lucifer showed the U.S. dominance but besides the team's physicality, with respective scuffles breaking retired connected the ice.
The triumph implicit Sweden sets up what could good beryllium a seventh gold-medal showdown against Canada connected Thursday. The defending Olympic champion Canadians play Switzerland successful the day's different semifinal game.
The U.S. already beat Canada 5-0 successful a preliminary circular game last week. The Americans won Olympic golden successful 1998 and 2018, with Canada winning the different 5 tournaments.
Every Olympic golden medal lucifer successful women's hockey, but one, has been U.S. versus Canada.
This is Coyne Schofield's 4th travel to the Olympics. She antecedently took location a golden and 2 silvers. This is Captain Hilary Knight's 5th travel to the Olympics. She's medaled 4 times, taking location a golden and 3 silvers.
Knight, during a preliminary circular crippled against Canada connected Feb. 10, tied the all-time U.S. women's hockey grounds for astir Olympic points. The 5-0 crippled was the largest borderline of triumph ever successful the U.S.-Canada Olympic hockey rivalry, according to Team USA.
Sweden volition play for bronze connected Thursday successful an effort to medal for the 3rd clip successful squad history, and archetypal since winning metallic astatine the 2006 Turin Games aft upsetting the U.S. successful the semifinals.
Ebba Svensson Traff stopped 19 of 23 shots earlier she was pulled aft Coyne Schofield tipped successful Laila Edwards' changeable from the bluish enactment with 3:50 near successful the 2nd period.
Team USA celebrates aft beating Sweden successful the women's crystal hockey semifinals astatine the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
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Emma Soderberg took implicit successful extremity and was beaten by Scamurra, who tapped successful Britta Curl-Salemme's centering walk 1:49 later. Soderberg finished with 10 saves.
Among those successful attendance was erstwhile NFL halfway Jason Kelce, who was shown connected the scoreboard applauding the extremity initially credited to Edwards. Kelce is from Edwards' hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and helium and his brother, Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce, contributed to a GoFundMe drive to assistance wage for Edwards' household to be the Milan Cortina Games.
Sweden enjoyed a break-through this twelvemonth with a young, talented radical that features 7 players competing successful the U.S. assemblage ranks. Sweden went 4-0 to triumph Group B, and past upset Czechia 2-0 successful the quarterfinals.
Though the Swedes kept the crippled adjacent done 35 minutes, the Americans yet wore them down.
And the U.S surely didn't lucifer a squad that didn't privation to play Sweden, as manager Ulf Lundberg suggested after the Swedes bushed Czechia successful the quarterfinals.
Though the Swedes kept the U.S. mostly to the perimeter successful the opening period, they were inactive outshot 13-2.
Barnes scored with a drawback changeable from the apical of the close ellipse and bushed Svensson Traff precocious connected the abbreviated side. Barnes' extremity was her archetypal constituent of the tournament, leaving seventh defender Rory Guilday arsenic the lone American skater to not yet registry a constituent done six games.
Heise made it 2-0 astatine the 9:08 people of the 2nd play by one-timing successful Hannah Bilka's backhand walk done the middle. Svensson Traff got her mitt connected the shot, but the puck deflected crossed her assemblage and into the nett disconnected the wrong of her stick.
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