Canada enters the final of the IIHF Women’s World Championship a perfect 6-0, and looks like the favourite to win its first world championship since 2012.
The last time these two teams played, in this tournament’s preliminary round, Canada handily beat the U.S., 5-1.
Being part of this program, being part of this team, it’s something that I’ve always dreamt of.
To be honest, being down 2-0 in the first, we just showed the resilient group that we have.
On the comeback: “We just stuck to our way the whole time.
We can hope that things work out the way they’re supposed to, from a narrative standpoint, but it just doesn’t happen that often.
It’s hard to argue that this player, scoring this goal, in this game doesn’t qualify.
“There are various reasons we can’t risk a long overtime game in the final,” said IIHF Competition and Coordination Committee Chairman Franz Reindl.
Gentille: It’s almost worse that they have different rules only for the gold-medal game …
I’m not saying that if you go 0 for 85 on the power play that you deserve to lose — but if you go 0 for 85 and lose, you deserve it.
One of the things I’ve picked up on, though, from paying attention to folks who, uh pay more attention — the officiating can be rough.
No harm, no foul — Kendall Coyne Schofeld used her speed to create a nice shorthanded chance for the U.S., Canada couldn’t capitalize on some chaos in front of Nicole Hensley, and Hensley made a nice save on Renata Fast.
“Having a good F3 allows our D to pinch and keep pucks in their end.
What made Canada so dominant throughout this tournament, and against Team USA in the prelims, was their ability to keep teams on the perimeter and limit such high danger opportunities against.
Around this time in the preliminary matchup between these two teams, Canada already had a 2-0 lead.
We’ve seen it before in gold-medal games; sometimes, if the host country is involved, there’s a little bit of early tightness.
gold — and zero goals for the Natalie-Sarah Fillier-Mèlodie Daoust line.
They have a lot of talent, but have shown they will do all the little things too: they’re strong on the forecheck, first on pucks, and love to make life difficult in any way for their opponents.
But I haven’t seen anything the last 10 days that can deter me from betting on a Canada win.