🇺🇸 United States 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦
Exhibition Game
General Motors Place, Vancouver 🇨🇦
Tuesday, 08 January 2002 

Canada’s National Women’s Team concluded its pre-Olympic international schedule on Tuesday with a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the USA in Vancouver, despite outshooting them 32-18.

The US opened the scoring on the powerplay, Karyn Bye’s shot from the point eluded Canadian netminder Kim St-Pierre. Despite some chances on both sides, that was the only goal of the first as the US led 1-0.

Early in the second, St-Pierre held Canada close with an outstanding glove save off of Andrea Kilbourne. The score held until 7:17 of the middle period when Hayley Wickenheiser evened things at 1-1.

Canada took the lead in the third when Jennifer Botterill knocked a loose puck past U.S. goaltender Sarah Tueting.

Jenny Potter evened the score at 2, at 13:13 of the third period, after a bouncing puck found her stick in the slot. And just over a minute later, Krissy Wendell gave the U.S. a lead would not relinquish, intercepting an errant clearing pass and beating St-Pierre.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:48 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dupuis, charging
04:17 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – Bye (Mounsey, Wendell)
05:05 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Kennedy, holding
05:27 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Goyette, hooking

2nd Period
20:54 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bredin, roughing
27:17 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Wickenheiser (Campbell, Ouellette)
28:52 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Campbell, slashing

3rd Period
41:18 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Botterill
53:13 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Schmidgall (Bye, King)
54:31 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Wendell

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇺🇸 Tueting (30-32)
L: 🇨🇦 St-Pierre (19-22)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇺🇸 3+8+7 = 22
🇨🇦 7+14+11 = 32

ROSTERS
🇺🇸 Goaltenders: Sara DeCosta, Sarah Tueting. Defence: Chris Bailey, Karyn Bye, Courtney Kennedy, Sue Merz, A.J. Mleczko, Tara Mounsey, Angela Ruggiero, Nicole Uliasz, Lyndsay Wall. Forwards: Laurie Baker, Julie Chu, Natalie Darwitz, Tricia Dunn, Brandy Fisher, Cammi Granato, Annamarie Holmes, Kathleen Kauth, Andrea Kilbourne, Katie King, Shelley Looney, Jenny Schmidgall, Krissy Wendell, Carisa Zaban.
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Charline Labonté, Sami Jo Small, Kim St-Pierre. Defence: Correne Bredin, Thérèse Brisson, Isabelle Chartrand, Delaney Collins, Geraldine Heaney, Becky Kellar, Cheryl Pounder, Colleen Sostorics. Forwards: Dana Antal, Gillian Apps, Kelly Bechard, Amanda Benoit, Jennifer Botterill, Cassie Campbell, Nancy Drolet, Lori Dupuis, Danielle Goyette, Jayna Hefford, Caroline Ouellette, Cherie Piper, Tammy Lee Shewchuk, Vicky Sunohara, Hayley Wickenheiser.

Article Credit: Hockey Canada