Brianne Jenner can not stop scoring when Canada blows past Sweden
Team Canada swept past its quarter-final opponent on Friday morning and beat Team Sweden 9-0. Brianne Jenner and Sarah Fillier each scored a hat-trick (again!), While Marie-Philip Poulin and Sarah Nurse took home four assists each. Claire Thompson also quietly took home three assists.
Emerance Maschmeyer got the start before the almost perfect Ann-Renee Desbiens after beating the United States. Maschmeyer got his first Olympic shutout in his career and made 11 saves in the win. Yes, Canada had as many goals as Sweden had shot. Canada themselves had a modest 56 shots on goal on the starting shot Emma Söderberg, who played the first two periods, and Ida Boman in the third.
Moves on
The ladies’ Olympic bracket will be reseeded after the quarter-finals, so we do not yet know who Canada will face in the next round. After Canada beat Sweden and the USA barely out of the Czechs, Canada should expect to play the winner between ROC and Switzerland. If Team Japan in the unlikely event beats Team Finland, Canada will play against Japan. Boy, what a moment that would be for the Japanese.
The other two QF matches take place tonight. ROC vs Swiss at 23.00, with Finland vs Japan at 03.30.
Canada’s next match should be the match on Sunday night at 23.00 to start the semis, with the USA on Monday at 8.00.
Canada’s lineup
Emily Clark – Marie-Philip Poulin (C) – Brianne Jenner
Jamie-Lee Rattray – Sarah Fillier – Natalie Spooner
Sarah Nurse – Blayre Turnbull – Rebecca Johnston
Jill Saulnier – Emma Maltais – Laura Stacey
Jocelyne Larocque – Renata Fast
Claire Thompson – Erin Ambrose
Micah Zander-Hart – Ashton Bell
Ella Shelton
Ann Renee Desbiens
Emerance Maschmeyer – starter
Sweden’s line-up
Josefin Bouveng – Lina Ljungblom – Michelle Löwenhielm (C)
Sofie Lundin – Felizia Wikner-Zienkiewicz – Emma Nordin
Emma Muren – Linnea Johansson – Olivia Carlsson
Lisa Johansson – Sara Hjalmarsson – Linn Peterson
Mina Waxin – Maja Nylen-Persson
Johanna Fallman – Jessica Adolfsson
Anna Kjellbin – Ebba Berglund
Linnea Andersson
Emma Söderberg
Ida Boman
Game price: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1995177027658
Canada scored so many goals at once, the official broadcaster CBC only has highlight videos for a handful of goals, so I’m just going to share these in particular. To see all the goals, take a look at the replay above. I definitely recommend watching the first period at least. The third period was mostly a formality.
Brianne Jenner’s goal
1-0
Jenner got the game started with a nice spin in front of the net on a pass from MPP. Her first chance was stopped by Emma Söderberg, but she got her own return and put it home.
Jenner again on a 2-on-0 with MPP from a takeaway on blueline, but Soderberg made a huge save on Jenner with his blocker.
8-0
Jenner got his second goal of the match from a center pass by MPP. Jenner came into the box created by Team Sweden and Poulin found her in the bumper pocket to redirect the puck past Söderberg.
10-0
Jenner got his hat trick in the third and threw away the rubbish on another brilliant pass over the spot from defender Micah Zandee-Hart.
Sarah Fillier’s goal
2-0
Fuller again with his sixth goal in the tournament! Fillier is a pure goal scorer who can do more than just tear shots from the gap. She has been really strong in front of the net with Spooner, and this goal was another example of that. Söderberg went off the post at exactly the wrong moment when the puck squeaked at her. A quick video review was done to make sure the puck got over the finish line, but it was confirmed that it was a goal.
3-0
Fillier again from Rattray, who made a brilliant pass in front of the net to Fillier at the right post. I can not always believe that Rattray was the 13th forward in this team given her offensive puck ability.
11-0
For two of the group stage matches, Sarah Fillier scored two goals in the first period but could not find her first Olympic hat-trick of her career in the second or third. We will call this a moment of development when she finally broke the barrier and closed the game with her third.
Everyone else’s goals
4-0
Rattray bar down! And there she does it again, this time a big shot from the left faceoff point on power play.
7-0
Blayre Turnbull scored her third goal and fifth point of the tournament (tying her up with Kendall Coyne-Schofield) on this brilliant pass from Erin Ambrose. The defender swept down from the point and made a perfect reverse pass that fooled everyone on Sweden and myself, but not Turnbull.