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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Alex Carpenter and Abbey Murphy scored in the second period, and the United States beat Finland 3-0 on Monday to advance to the final of the women’s world hockey championship. The five-time defending champion United States will play in its 20th gold-medal game on Tuesday against the winner of the other

The United States is a win away from a sixth straight women’s world hockey championship. Alex Carpenter, Abbey Murphy and Kendall Coyne Schofield, with an empty-net goal, scored for the U.S. in a 3-0 semifinal win Monday over Finland American goaltender Nicole Hensley posted a 14-save shutout. Finnish counterpart Anni Keisala stopped 31 of 33

CALGARY – Melodie Daoust hopes the first women’s world hockey championship final of her career yields gold for Canada. The 29-year-old from Valleyfield, Que., scored twice to lead the host country in a 4-0 semifinal win over Switzerland on Monday. Canada meets defending champion United States for the gold medal Tuesday. The Americans are chasing

Mélodie Daoust scored twice to lead Canada to a 4-0 win over Switzerland in a women’s world hockey championship semifinal Monday. Canada will face defending champion United States in Tuesday’s final. Canada returns to the gold-medal game after falling to Finland in a 2019 semifinal and taking bronze. It was the first time in the

Revenge seems a pretty ridiculous basis upon which to make a major, expensive hockey decision. Then again, it’s hockey, right? A sport where, in 2021, many still believe a player who injures an opponent, either intentionally or accidentally, must “answer the bell” as soon as possible through the archaic practice of bare-knuckle fighting. We saw

Veronika Korzhakova and Oxana Bratisheva scored in a 3:08 span early in the third period and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) beat short-handed Germany 3-2 on Sunday to advance to the fifth-place game in the women’s world hockey championship in Calgary. “It was difficult for us because we knew we didn’t have a chance to win

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Veronika Korzhakova and Oxana Bratisheva scored in a 3:08 span early in the third period and Russia beat short-handed Germany 3-2 on Sunday to advance to the fifth-place game in the women’s world hockey championship. “It was difficult for us because we knew we didn’t have a chance to win a

Never have players on the Canadian women’s hockey team looked forward to the rigours of pre-Olympic preparation more. Ice time wasn’t always available during the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone skating in large groups or playing a game. Olympic team alumni have said the months they lived, trained and played games in Calgary before a Winter

CALGARY – Linemates Natalie Spooner, Sarah Fillier and Melodie Daoust continued to be a productive trio for Canada at the women’s world hockey championship. The three women combined for four goals in the host country’s 7-0 quarterfinal win Saturday over Germany. Canada faces Switzerland in Monday’s semifinal. The medal games are Tuesday at WinSport’s Markin

Linemates Natalie Spooner, Sarah Fillier and Melodie Daoust continued to be a productive trio for Canada at the women’s world hockey championship. The three women combined for four goals in the host country’s 7-0 quarter-final win Saturday over Germany. Canada faces Switzerland in Monday’s semifinal. The medal games are Tuesday at WinSport’s Markin MacPhail Centre.

CALGARY – Natalie Spooner scored twice and had an assist to lead Canada to a 7-0 quarterfinal win over Germany in the women’s world hockey championship Saturday. Melodie Daoust’s goal and two assists gave her a team-leading four goals and six assists in the tournament, ahead of Spooner with four goals and five assists. The

The Carolina Hurricanes say they’ve signed an offer sheet with Montreal Canadiens centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi. The team says the agreement would see the 21-year-old restricted free agent join the ‘Canes on a one-year deal worth $6.1 million US. The Canadiens now have seven days to match the offer. Kotkaniemi had 20 points (five goals, 15

CALGARY – Blayre Turnbull had to make peace with not playing a women’s world hockey championship in her home province of Nova Scotia. The forward from Stellarton was going to represent Canada at the world championship in Halifax and Truro in 2020. The championship cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, those communities were awarded the

RCMP say speed was a contributing factor in a crash that claimed the lives of three junior hockey players on the weekend. Parker Magnuson, Ronin Sharma and Caleb Reimer, who were aged between 16 and 17, died early Saturday when the car they were travelling in crashed into a tree in the Fraser Heights neighbourhood of

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Jordie Benn to a one-year, $900,000 contract on Friday, adding another veteran option after an offseason of change on the blue line. The 34-year-old Benn had one goal, nine assists and a plus-7 rating over 39 games with the Vancouver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets last

With his future in Buffalo uncertain, Sabres captain Jack Eichel is changing agents while in the midst of a long-standing dispute with the team over how to treat a neck injury, four people with direct knowledge of the player’s decision told The Associated Press on Friday. The people spoke to the AP on the condition

CALGARY – Given the opportunity, Canada’s Jamie Lee Rattray made the most of it with two goals in Thursday’s 5-1 win over the United States in the women’s world hockey championship. Rattray was Canada’s spare forward for a couple of games in the preliminary round. With captain Marie-Philip Poulin out of the lineup recovering from

The Calgary Flames have signed forward Dillon Dube to a three-year contract worth $6.9 million. The 23-year-old from Golden, B.C., has 18 goals and 25 assists in 121 career games the past two seasons with the Flames. His contract carries an annual average value of $2.3 million. Calgary drafted Dube in the second round (56th