Women’s Worlds Recap: Canada 5, ROC 1
Canada spread around the scoring to down the Russians and stay unbeaten in Group A
CALGARY, Alta. – Five players scored goals and 13 recorded at least a point as Canada’s National Women’s Team eased past ROC 5-1 on Sunday night to stay perfect at the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
The Canadians dominated from start to finish, outshooting the Russians 62-7.
Sarah Fillier (Georgetown, Ont./Princeton University, ECAC), Ella Shelton (Ingersoll, Ont.), Erin Ambrose (Keswick, Ont.), Mélodie Daoust (Valleyfield, Que.) and Rebecca Johnston (Sudbury, Ont.) provided the offence for the Canadians.
Ann-Renée Desbiens (La Malbaie, Que) made six saves, coming within 1.3 seconds of a shutout.
The story early was Russian goaltender Nadezhda Morozova, who kept the game scoreless through the first period with 17 saves, but the Canadian offence awoke in the second.
Fillier, who netted the game-winner in the tournament-opening 5-3 win over Finland on Friday, opened the scoring 7:29 into the middle frame; with the teams playing four-on-four, she kept on a 3-on-1 break and waited for Morozova to make the first move before going five-hole for the 1-0 goal.
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Shelton doubled the advantage 1:42 later, jumping in off the blue line and finishing a feed from Brianne Jenner (Oakville, Ont.), and Ambrose hammered a point shot off a Russian leg and past Morozova at 13:48 to make it 3-0.
That was it for the Russian netminder, who was replaced by Anna Prugova shortly after the Ambrose goal.
Canada outshot ROC 21-2 in the second period, and had an 38-5 edge through 40 minutes.
The offensive onslaught continued in the third, with another 24 shots directed at Prugova.
Daoust stretched the lead to four two minutes into the final stanza, jamming in a Natalie Spooner (Scarborough, Ont.) rebound, and Johnston redirected an Emily Clark (Saskatoon, Sask.) shot through Prugova with 5:51 left.
A very late penalty put the Russians on the power play, and Olga Sosina wired a shot past Desbiens on the short side right off the face-off to spoil the clean sheet for the Canadian.
Canada tries to make it three-for-three in Group A when it takes on Switzerland in its penultimate preliminary-round game on Tuesday night (6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT).
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