🇨🇦 Canada 10-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Women’s World Championship Preliminary Round
Cloetta Center, Linköping 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 06 April 2005

Team Canada faced its toughest opponent to date as they faced Sweden on their home soil. With over 4,000 fans in the Cloetta Center to watch the host team try and knock off the eight time defending champions, it was the tournaments best atmosphere by far. Canada had the added benefit of having a couple of touring Canadian girl’s teams from Durham and Orangeville, Ontario to help cheer on the red and white.

Canada opened the scoring on a 5 on 3 advantage as Danielle Goyette pounced on a rebound after a point shot by Delaney Collins. Canada increased its lead to 2-0 as rookie defenceman Carla MacLeod jumped down from the point and slipped one past Swedish goaltender Kim Martin. The first period scoring was rounded out when Cherie Piper scored from her knees to put Canada up 3-0 on a goal mouth scramble.

Sweden started the second period the same way they played most of the first, short-handed. Canada scored their third power play goal of the game, this time Kelly Bechard banged home a rebound after Sarah Vaillancourt deflected a Correne Bredin point shot that Kim Martin was unable to control. Gillian Apps fired a bullet over the shoulder of a stunned Kim Martin for the fifth Canadian goal.

Jennifer Botterill had a great solo effort as she cruised off the boards to the slot and riffled one just inside the post, which was Canada’s fourth power play goal. Starting Swedish netminder Kim Martin was replaced in favour of Cecilia Anderson. Vicky Sunohara closed out the second period scoring as she came in the slot as the trailing forward and beat the Swedish netminder to put Canada up 7-0.

Canada continued to dominate team Sweden in the third period. Gillian Apps, Canada’s player of the game, scored two goals to go with her second period marker giving the power forward her first ever World Championship hat trick. Hayley Wickenheiser scored right off a face off to the left of Anderson and registered her 97th career goal.

Kim St-Pierre had 14 saves earning her 15th career shut-out. Team Canada has now completed the round robin without allowing goal for the second time, having accomplished the feat at the 1999 World Women’s Championship in Finland.

After a day off, Canada will face Finland in the semifinals on Friday.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:03 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Sjölander, elbowing
05:28 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Holst, tripping
09:21 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Kellar, holding
10:26 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rundqvist, slashing
10:48 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lindberg, body checking
11:46 – 🇨🇦 PP2 GOAL – Goyette (Botterill, Collins)
13:18 – 🇸🇪 PEN – team, too many players
14:55 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – MacLeod (Botterill, Vaillancourt)
15:44 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rundqvist, boarding
16:22 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Goyette, hooking
19:06 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Piper (Bechard, MacLeod)

2nd Period
23:40 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Asserholt, tripping
24:02 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Bechard (Bredin)
28:14 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Apps (Sunohara, Campbell)
28:24 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Asserholt, kneeing
29:28 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Botterill (Hefford)
35:46 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Apps, roughing
35:46 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rundqvist, tripping
37:17 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Goyette, hooking
39:39 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Sunohara (Campbell, Apps)

3rd Period
41:58 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Nevalainen, holding
44:36 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Apps (Sunohara)
46:13 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Wickenheiser
46:31 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Kellar, hooking
49:02 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Botterill, hooking
49:43 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Wickenheiser, tripping
51:44 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Apps (Botterill)
52:05 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Rooth, tripping

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇨🇦 St-Pierre (14-14)
L: 🇸🇪 Martin (18-24), C. Andersson (16-20)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇨🇦 15+15+13 = 44
🇸🇪 2+7+5 = 14

ROSTERS
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Charline Labonté, Kim St-Pierre. Defence: Correne Bredin, Delaney Collins, Becky Kellar, Carla MacLeod, Cheryl Pounder, Colleen Sostorics. Forwards: Gillian Apps, Kelly Bechard, Jennifer Botterill, Cassie Campbell, Danielle Goyette, Jayna Hefford, Gina Kingsbury, Caroline Ouellette, Cherie Piper, Vicky Sunohara, Sarah Vaillancourt, Hayley Wickenheiser.
🇸🇪 Goaltenders: Cecilia Andersson, Kim Martin. Defence: Gunilla Andersson, Jenni Asserholt, Emma Eliasson, Ylva Lindberg, Kristina Lundberg, Frida Nevalainen. Forwards: Elin Holmlöv, Erika Holst, Nanna Jansson, Emilie O’Konor, Maria Rooth, Danijela Rundqvist, Evelina Samuelsson, Therese Sjölander, Katarina Timglas, Anna Vikman, Pernilla Winberg.

Article Credit: Hockey Canada
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