{"id":168476,"date":"2026-02-07T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:38:14","slug":"winter-olympics-u-s-womens-hockey-dominates-vs-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168476\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics: U.S. women’s hockey dominates vs. Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MILAN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The U.S. women\u2019s hockey team came into the Milan-Cortina Winter Games<\/a> ranked No. 1 in the world. And two games into group play, it\u2019s shown that ranking might be something of an understatement.<\/p>\n

With Saturday\u2019s 5-0 victory over No. 3 Finland, the unbeaten Americans have outscored their two opponents 10-1 and outshot them 91-25. The goals Saturday came from Alex Carpenter, Taylor Heise, Megan Keller, Hilary Knight<\/a> and Abbey Murphy. Keller and Laila Edwards<\/a> each had two assists.<\/p>\n

In goal, Aerin Frankel<\/a> faced just 11 shots in posting the first shutout of the Olympic tournament.<\/p>\n

Just as in its opening win over No. 4 Czechia<\/a>, the U.S. eased its way into the game before going ahead to stay late in the first period on a power-play goal from Carpenter. The score came seven seconds after Finland\u2019s Susanna Tapani was sent off for hooking.<\/p>\n

The Americans doubled the advantage 2\u00bd minutes into the second period at the end of a beautiful passing sequence that saw Britta Curl feed Murphy, whose cross-crease pass found Heise on the doorstep for the easy goal.<\/p>\n

Sixty-six seconds later Keller\u2019s unassisted goal made it 3-0 and the rout was on.<\/p>\n

Next came a power-play goal from Knight, her 14th in Olympic play, equaling Natalie Darwitz and Katie King for the most in team history. Murphy closed out the scoring, banging in a rebound at the right post with less than five minutes to play.<\/p>\n

With 10 goals, the U.S. is tied with Sweden for most in the tournament while the Americans\u2019 goal differential of plus-nine is the best. It was the 11th straight Olympic win for the U.S. over Finland, the bronze medalist four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The U.S. women\u2019s hockey team came into the Milan-Cortina Winter Games ranked No. 1 in the world. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[80958,80959,33244,2194,62448,48,52,51,62443,47,50,49,80955,18158,14992,595,9018,80957,73694,80956,8934],"class_list":{"0":"post-168476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-abbey-murphy","9":"tag-alex-carpenter","10":"tag-finland","11":"tag-goal","12":"tag-hilary-knight","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-laila-edwards","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-news","20":"tag-megan-keller","21":"tag-no","22":"tag-power-play-goal","23":"tag-saturday","24":"tag-second","25":"tag-taylor-heise","26":"tag-u-s-woman","27":"tag-unbeaten-americans","28":"tag-victory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}