🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 United States 🇺🇸
Exhibition Game
FedExRink, Cranberry Township 🇺🇸
Friday, 08 November 2019

Victoria Bach scored a pair of goals and Marie-Philip Poulin added a goal and an assist, leading Canada’s National Women’s Team to a 4-1 win over the United States on Friday in the first of two games between the long-time rivals.

The game marked the 148th meeting between the North American neighbours since 1990; Canada improved its record to 83-64-1 with the victory.

Bach needed just over six minutes to get Canada going, taking a feed from Poulin on a two-on-one and tucking a backhand around U.S. goaltender Maddie Rooney.

Sarah Fillier doubled the advantage four minutes later, going under the arm of Rooney from the slot, but Hilary Knight batted a tipped puck past Canadian netminder Ann-Renée Desbiens before the end of the opening period.

After outshooting the U.S. 10-5 in the first period, Canada continued its offensive push early in the second and was rewarded with a pair of early goals.

Poulin was first, forcing a turnover at the Canadian blue-line and racing away to roof a backhand on a shorthanded breakaway at 4:12, and Bach got a shot through a maze of bodies and past Rooney just over two minutes later to make it a 4-1 game.

That would be it for scoring as the goaltenders closed the door the rest of the way despite a handful of power plays each way over the final 30 minutes; Desbiens made 22 saves to record the win, while Rooney stopped 19 of 23 in defeat.

The series wraps up Sunday afternoon at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex.

BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:03 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Bach (Poulin)
10:04 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Fillier (Larocque)
10:48 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Brodt, body checking
14:31 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Knight (Cameranesi, Matheson)
16:15 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Fast, cross checking

2nd Period
23:31 – 🇨🇦 PEN – O’Neill, holding
24:12 – 🇨🇦 SH GOAL – Poulin
26:27 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Bach (Maltais)
29:45 – 🇺🇸 PEN – J. Lamoureux, roughing
29:45 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Maltais, roughing
30:20 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Turnbull, tripping

3rd Period
44:51 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Barnes, interference
49:56 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Brandt, interference
54:49 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Scamurra, holding
54:49 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Daoust, slashing
56:05 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Larocque, body checking
59:50 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Keller, roughing

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇨🇦 Desbiens (22-23)
L: 🇺🇸 Rooney (19-23)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇨🇦 10+5+8 = 23
🇺🇸 5+12+6 = 23

ROSTERS
🇨🇦 Goaltenders: Ann-Renée Desbiens, Geneviève Lacasse. Defence: Erin Ambrose, Renata Fast, Jocelyne Larocque (A), Lauriane Rougeau, Ella Shelton, Claire Thompson, Micah Zandee-Hart. Forwards: Victoria Bach, Ann-Sophie Bettez, Emily Clark, Mélodie Daoust, Sarah Fillier, Loren Gabel, Emma Maltais, Sarah Nurse, Kristin O’Neill, Marie-Philip Poulin (C), Natalie Spooner, Laura Stacey, Blayre Turnbull (A).
🇺🇸 Goaltenders: Alex Rigsby, Maddie Rooney. Defence: Cayla Barnes, Kacey Bellamy (A), Megan Bozek, Kali Flanagan, Megan Keller, Monique Lamoureux, Emily Matheson, Lee Stecklein. Forwards: Hannah Brandt, Sydney Brodt, Dani Cameranesi, Alex Carpenter, Kendall Coyne (C), Amanda Kessel, Hilary Knight (A), Jocelyne Lamoureux, Annie Pankowski, Kelly Pannek, Hayley Scamurra, Sophia Shaver.

Article Credit: Hockey Canada
Photo Credit: Hockey Canada – IIHF – HHOF – IOC