The Canadian women’s hockey team earned a 5-0 semifinal win over the Olympic Athletes from Russia to set up yet another gold-medal showdown with the United States. Meanwhile, ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir topped the short dance, skier Cassie Sharpe is off to a promising start in the women’s halfpipe and the men’s and women’s curling teams once again had mixed results.
Since women’s hockey made its Olympic debut in 1998, Canada and the U.S. have met in every final except 2006 when the Americans were upset by Sweden in the semifinal. The Canadians will look to extend their gold-medal run to five straight.
Jennifer Wakefield led Canada with two goals. Captain Marie-Philip Poulin, Emily Clark and Rebecca Johnston also scored while Shannon Szabados stopped 14 shots for the shutout and her second win of the tournament.
The Americans advanced with a 5-0 victory over Finland.
Jennifer Wakefield scores to give Canada 1-0 lead against OAR #PyeongChang2018 @RBC pic.twitter.com/qblKMCa7mD
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 19, 2018
Emily Clark scores her 1st Olympic goal making it 4-0#PyeongChang2018 pic.twitter.com/AKMNjXD5cQ
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 19, 2018
Marie-Philip Poulin (@pou29) scores on a backhand making it 2-0 #PyeongChang2018 @RBC pic.twitter.com/GZz8edXAQ7
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 19, 2018
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