Our Aussie 4x100m team then set the pool alight with a blistering swim, with McKeon and Cate Campbell still to come into the team, leaving use sniffing potential gold. captain Kendall Coyne Schofield played in her 150th international game, including the Under-18 and -22 levels.While there were no Aussie medals on day one of the Olympics, some of our brightest hopes are primed to pounce on day two.Īustralia's start in the pool couldn't have gone much better with Brendon Smith stunning himself, qualifying first in the 400m individual medley with an Aussie record, before Emma McKeon followed suit in the 100m butterfly in the perfect start to the swimming program - despite a dead heat controversy. Canada D Blayre Turnbull, who broke her fibula during the gold-medal celebrations in August, has resumed skating but there is no timetable for her return.
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G Maddie Rooney, who missed the world championship after suffering a lower-body injury, is being eased back into action and not expected to play until the team travels to play a three-game series against Russia in Northern Ireland starting on Nov. forward Hilary Knight exchanging shoves with Canada's Melodie Daoust following a scramble in front of the Canadian net with three seconds remaining. The first period wasn't over before the bad blood between the two teams became apparent with U.S. soil in 622 days, dating to a 4-3 overtime win over Canada in a rivalry series game played at Anaheim, California, on Feb. Scamurra spun away from Renata Fast in front and roofed the rebound inside the crossbar.īecause of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down women's hockey for 18 months, the outing was Team USA's first against an international opponent on U.S. Scamurra tied it 11:21 into the second period, when Maschmeyer stopped Caroline Harvey's point shot. Cavallini made the stop, but was unable to control the rebound, which dribbled to her left, where an untouched Fillier swept it into the open side. zone, Canada worked the puck back to Erin Ambrose, whose shot from the blue line was tipped in front by teammate Rebecca Johnston. The teams traded power-play goals through the first 40 minutes, with Canada opening the scoring on Fillier's 13:39 into the first period, and 29 seconds after Abby Roque was penalized for tripping. Ella Shelton set up the play by gaining the American blue line and turning around in the right circle to feed Clark, whose shot beat Cavallini through a screen and inside the near post. The teams will meet again in Hartford, Connecticut, on Monday night.Ĭlark's go-ahead goal came shortly after Canada's power-play unit failed to register a shot on net with Megan Bozek off for cross-checking.
Scamurra scored and Alex Cavallini stopped 16 shots. Her best stop came 20 seconds after Clark scored, when she held her ground to turn aside Hayley Scamurra's backhander from in tight off a Canada turnover in its own end. Emerance Maschmeyer stopped 28 shots, including 14 in the second period when the U.S. The Canadians have won three straight meetings to mark their best streak since a five-game run before a 3-2 shootout loss in the gold-medal game at the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea.Ĭlark sealed the outcome with an empty-net goal, and Sarah Fillier also scored for Canada, which ended the Americans' run of winning five consecutive world titles in August. It was the first meeting between the cross-border rivals and the world's top hockey powers since Canada's 3-2 overtime victory in the gold medal game of the women's world championships in Calgary, Alberta, on Aug.
Emily Clark scored twice, including the go-ahead goal 5:05 into the third period, and Canada beat the United States 3-1 in Game 1 of a nine-game pre-Olympic Rivalry Series between the national women's hockey teams Friday night.
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