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HERNING, Denmark — Sarah Fillier scored twice for Canada in a 4-1 win over Switzerland on the girls’s world hockey championship Saturday.
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Blayre Turnbull scored and had an help and Emily Clark additionally scored for Canada at Herning’s Kvik Hockey Area. Goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens stopped seven photographs in her second win of the match.
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Her Swiss counterpart Andrea Braendli, who additionally tends Ohio State’s purpose, turned away 42 photographs within the loss. Alina Marti foiled Desbiens’ shutout bid with just below minutes remaining within the third interval.
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Canada and the U.S. had been tied atop Pool A with two wins apiece. The Canadians had lower than 24 hours to get well for his or her subsequent recreation Sunday afternoon towards winless Japan.
Regardless of 66 saves by Finland’s goaltender Anni Keisala, the U.S. prevailed 6-1 earlier Saturday. With a win and a loss, the Swiss ranked forward of the winless Finns.
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Defending champion Canada caps the preliminary spherical Tuesday towards the Individuals.
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Sweden edged Germany 4-3 in a Pool B shootout Saturday in Frederikshavn.
Switzerland’s finest world championship end result was a bronze medal in 2012, adopted two years later by an Olympic bronze medal in Sochi, Russia.
Saturday’s recreation was the closest between the 2 international locations since Canada beat the Swiss 3-1 within the 2014 Olympic semifinal.
Canada improved to 16-0 all-time versus Switzerland.
Turnbull drove in from the impartial zone and beat Braendli between the pads with a wrist shot at 18:46 of the third interval.
Fillier, Canada’s youngest participant at 22, scored eight objectives and had three assists in her Olympic debut in Beijing in February.
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She notched her first two objectives of the world championship Saturday to offer her group a 2-0 lead by the second interval.
Marti scored at 12:32 of the third from the slot on a feed from Laura Zimmerman. The Swiss argued they’d scored a power-play purpose with 5 minutes remaining within the recreation, however officers didn’t agree.
Simply 32 seconds after Fillier’s second of the sport on a fast launch from shut vary, Clark dropped to her knee to rifle the puck dwelling on a feed from Turnbull at 11:12 of the second interval.
Regardless of nearly 5 minutes of power-play time, and a vocal group of Swiss followers ringing cowbells, their group mustered simply three photographs on Desbiens within the opening interval.
Switzerland went 0-for-6 general with an additional participant. Canada’s energy play was 0-for-2.
Fillier skated the puck from behind the online and scored from the excessive slot on a wrist shot to complete a give-and-go with defender Ella Shelton at 10:15 of the primary interval.