EDMONTON \u2013 Kelly Pannek and Abbey Murphy each scored twice for the United States in a 10-4 win over Canada in a Rivalry Series game Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Kendall Coyne Schofield had a goal and two assists and Tessa Janecke, Jesse Compher, Britta Curl-Salemme, Alex Carpenter and Kirsten Simms also scored for the U.S.<\/p>\n
The Americans rattled off five unanswered goals after Canada struck in the first minute of the game, and another four straight in the third.<\/p>\n
Gwyneth Philips made 30 saves for the win in the U.S. net.<\/p>\n
Sophie Jaques scored twice, Sarah Fillier had a goal and an assist and Julia Gosling also contributed a goal for Canada, which gave up 10 goals to the U.S. for the first time ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The previous high was nine in 2012.<\/p>\n
After allowing five goals on 17 shots in her first start of the Rivalry Series, Ann-Ren\u00e9e Desbiens was replaced by Emerance Maschmeyer midway through the second period. Maschmeyer turned away seven of 12 shots.<\/p>\n
The fourth and final game of the Rivalry Series, and the last meeting of the archrivals before February’s Olympic Games, is Saturday in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
Reigning world champion United States won the first two games 4-1 in Cleveland and 6-1 in Buffalo, N.Y., in November.<\/p>\n
The U.S. took a commanding lead Wednesday on Canada’s porous defence, although a three-goal second period by the hosts, including two in the final two minutes, had Canada within striking distance two goals down heading into the third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jaques’ second of the game survived a video review for goaltender interference. The subsequent delay of game penalty to the U.S. gave Canada a power play to start the third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jaques rang the puck off the post, but that was as close as Canada came during the advantage. The U.S. then resumed its cracking goal-scoring pace with four unanswered goals to overwhelm Canada.<\/p>\n
Canada turned the puck over under pressure and left opposing players unchecked below the faceoff circles in its own zone.<\/p>\n
Canada’s first real sustained pressure around the U.S. net produced a second goal when Jaques fired a loose puck by Philips at 13:01 of the second period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Julia Gosling potted a rebound for a power-play goal at 18:42.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canada outshot the U.S. 17-10 in the opening period, but the latter was the more tenacious team around both nets.<\/p>\n
Coyne Schofield and Compher gave the visitors a 4-1 lead by scoring within 39 seconds of each other in the first period.<\/p>\n
The hosts took a quick lead 48 seconds after puck drop when Ella Shelton’s pass from the boards deflected off the skate of Fillier driving the net. Canada never led again in the game.<\/p>\n
Previous editions of the Rivalry Series have been five and seven games. February’s Olympic Games and the Professional Women’s Hockey League schedule shortened it this season.<\/p>\n
Canada’s 23-player Olympic roster is expected to be announced in early January. Canada opens defence of its gold medal Feb. 4 against Finland in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 Kelly Pannek and Abbey Murphy each scored twice for the United States in a 10-4 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}