EDMONTON \u2014 Hilary Knight scored twice, including an empty-netter, to lead the United States to a 4-1 win over Canada in a women\u2019s hockey Rivalry Series game Saturday.<\/p>\n
The U.S. swept the four-game series and outscored Canada 24-7.<\/p>\n
Defenders Caroline Harvey and Laila Edwards also scored, and Taylor Heise had two assists for the U.S. to finish with a series-leading eight assists.<\/p>\n
Aerin Frankel stopped 23 shots in the U.S. net.<\/p>\n
Brianne Jenner scored and goaltender Ann-Ren\u00e9e Desbiens made 28 saves for Canada.<\/p>\n
The U.S. won the first three games 4-1 in Cleveland, 6-1 in Buffalo, N.Y., and 10-4 in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
After giving up a worst-ever 10 goals to their archrivals, the Canadians wanted to wrest a measure of momentum back in their final meeting with the U.S. before their preliminary-round meeting in the Olympic tournament Feb. 10 in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n
Hockey Canada is expected to name its 23-player Olympic roster in early January. Canada opens defence of its gold medal Feb. 4 against Finland in Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s two college skaters, forward Caitlin Kraemer (Minnesota-Duluth) and defender Chloe Primerano (Minnesota), drew in Saturday for forward Danielle Serdachny and defender Nicole Gosling, who played Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Knight threw a sharp-angled shot on net and fooled Desbiens between the pads for a 3-1 lead at 11:29 of the third period.<\/p>\n
Canada had a six-on-four for the final 17 seconds of the game, but didn\u2019t score.<\/p>\n
Canada outshot the U.S. 12-6 in the first period, but the visitors carried an 18-8 advantage in the second.<\/p>\n
Edwards gave the visitors a 2-1 lead at 7:29 of the second when she wired a cross-ice pass from Heise upstairs on Desbiens.<\/p>\n
Harvey\u2019s shot deflected off Canadian defender Primerano battling with Abbey Murphy at the crease, and by Desbiens at 5:13 for the first goal of the game.<\/p>\n
Canada drew even a minute later off a neutral zone turnover. Jenn Gardiner backhanded a pass to Jenner in the slot for the latter to rifle over Frankel\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n
Canada scored three power-play goals on 12 chances in four games, while the U.S. was 6 for 17.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n
Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Hilary Knight scored twice, including an empty-netter, to lead the United States to a 4-1 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,99,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-347672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}