Crew USA’s girls’s ice hockey workforce routed Switzerland 8-0 throughout a late Sunday evening preliminary spherical sport, bettering their undefeated streak on the Beijing Video games to 3-0.
The American’s seemed recent on the ice, scoring 5 objectives on 22 pictures within the first interval alone, with 13 of 19 skaters ending with not less than some extent apiece.
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Star ahead Hilary Knight, 32, scored two objectives towards the Swiss, recording her ninth profession Olympic aim to tie Monique Lamoureux-Morando for fifth on the U.S. checklist. She ranks fourth in complete factors with 22.
USA scores previous Switzerland’s goaltender Andrea Braendli through the girls’s preliminary spherical on the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 6, 2022.
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The straightforward evening for the Individuals comes earlier than their heavily-anticipated match towards the Canadians on Tuesday in what would be the closing Group A preliminary spherical sport on the Beijing Olympics earlier than heading to the quarterfinals.
USA’s Kelly Pannek and Caroline Harvey rejoice after scoring the workforce’s fourth aim towards Switzerland on the Winter Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 6, 2022.
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Each workforce in Group A will advance to the following stage, that means Tuesday’s sport doesn’t maintain a lot weight – apart from the gamers on the ice.
The Canadians will little question be out for vengeance after Crew USA ended their four-Olympic championship run in a dramatic flourish with a 3-2 shootout win in 2018.
U.S. workforce members huddle up previous to the sport towards Switzerland on Feb. 6, 2022, in Beijing, China.
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Canada has the Olympic edge with a 5-3 document and profitable 4 golds to America’s two. On the world championships, the groups are 15-15 with Canada having gained 11 titles to the U.S.’s 9. In all-time conferences relationship to 1990, as compiled by Hockey Canada, the Canadians have gained 71 video games in regulation, 20 in extra time/shootout, misplaced 53 in regulation and 17 in extra time/shootout, and tied as soon as.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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