Canada’s women’s team hits double digits in major win over Sweden
Canada will play for a medal at the Winter Olympics in Beijing 2022 after defeating Sweden 11-0.
Canada has won all meetings between Canada and Sweden in the Olympic competition, including at the 2006 gold medal, the only time Canada has not played the United States for gold. Canada became the second team to advance to the final four after the Americans defeated the Czech Republic 4-1 earlier in the day.
Emerance Maschmeyer, who made her second start in the tournament for Canada, stopped all 11 shots sent her way.
It did not take long for Canada to show its muscles. At 3:05, Brianne Jenner scored a goal when he stood unchallenged in front of the Swedish net and hit a pass from Marie-Philip Poulin to 1-0. Then Jenner’s sixth goal was the most in this year’s tournament.
But it did not last long thanks to Sarah Fillier. At 17:05, Fillier scored on power-play after standing in front of the net with a Swedish defender looking in the wrong direction. Just 36 seconds later, Fillier scored again after a group of four Swedes pushed to the front, but the puck bounced out to the side where Fillier was alone and she made no mistake for her tournament-leading seventh goal. Jamie Lee Rattray scored 19:35 to make it a four-goal game on the way to the break.
It only got uglier from there from a Swedish perspective. Canada took a 9-0 lead in the second half, thanks to goals from Natalie Spooner, Erin Ambrose, Blayne Turnbull, Emily Clark and a second from Jenner. Jenner scored a tenth goal for his second hat-trick, only for Fillier to do the same shortly after in the third to make it 11-0, the third time Canada reached the 11-goal mark in the tournament.
Canada waits until Saturday afternoon to find their opponent in the semi-finals on Monday.