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Olympics Hockey semifinals: Team USA dominates Sweden, will play for gold
MILAN — Eleven minutes into their team’s semifinal clash against the juggernaut U.S. women’s hockey team, Swedish fans inside Santagiulia Arena roared with approval.
A goal? Sustained pressure? A power play? Nope. The Swedes had just finally registered their first shot on goal.
Sweden did manage to fire more pucks in the direction of the American net over the course of Monday’s lopsided semifinal, but the Swedes didn’t come any closer to challenging the U.S. than any other opponent in Milan has. Five different American players scored and goaltender Aerin Frankel recorded her team’s fifth consecutive shutout as the U.S. thrashed Sweden 5-0 to advance to Thursday’s 1:10 p.m. ET gold-medal match against Canada.
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Hello from Milan and Cortina, where the USA women’s hockey team will face a familiar foe in the gold-medal game, two Americans were on the podium in women’s monobob and a Norwegian skier melted down after losing out on a medal.
These Winter Olympics have not been kind to favorites. From Ilia Malinin to Lindsey Vonn and Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt, athletes many figured would be in the mix for gold have struggled to live up to weighty expectations.
But the U.S. women’s hockey team has been a red, white and blue exception.
They advanced to Thursday’s gold-medal game by overpowering Sweden 5-0 in today’s semifinal, with goals from five different scorers. The performance displayed the roster’s depth and dominance. The U.S. hasn’t conceded a goal in the last 331 minutes, an Olympic record, while outscoring all opponents 31-1.
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Unbeaten USA women’s hockey team advances to Olympic gold medal game after rout of Sweden
Team USA continued their dominance in the semifinals, steamrolling Sweden. They'll face either Canada or Switzerland for gold on Thursday. Sarah Stier / Getty Images
MILAN – Undefeated Team USA, which has run through this women’s hockey tournament in spectacular and untested fashion so far, is heading to the Olympic gold medal game with another one-sided win, this time by a margin of 5-0 against Sweden on Monday.
The sixth-ranked Swedes punched their ticket to the semifinals after pulling off an upset over the Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, in the quarterfinals. There was a bit of gamesmanship from Swedish coach Ulf Lundberg heading into the game, telling the Associated Press, “I don’t really think that the U.S. team wants to meet us right now.”
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