USA – Sweden2 6:1 (end) | Canada2 – Switzerland 3:1 (end)
final
USA
6:1 (3:0, 2:0, 1:1)
Sweden2
Monday 17.02.2014, 13:30 • Shayba Arena, Sochi • Olympics - Women
     
    There's the final buzzer, and the USA have romped into the final with a 6-1 thrashing of Sweden! The Swedes were never in this one and they will want to focus on the bronze medal match now. In the first period on 29 shots the USA score three times through Alex Carpenter, Kacey Bellamy and Amanda Kessel and in the second period they didn't let up scoring twice more through Monique Lamoureux and Megan Bozek. The Swedes improved in the third period and grabbed a goal when Anna Borgqvist found the net, but Brianna Decker finished it off for the US at the end. Thanks for following the game with us, and join me later for the second semi final between Canada and Switzerland at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games! (15:52:56)
     
    60:00
    Game over.
     
    59:59
    Coyne skates hard to the net on the left flank and Martin Hasson dives on the puck to cover it
     
    59:30
    We're now into the final 30 seconds of the game with the USA cruising into the final with the score at 6-1 in their favour
     
    58:44
    Carpenter fires the puck into the crease and it gets deflected out by the beleaguered Swedes
     
    56:58
    Goal for Team USA! BRIANNA DECKER slams a first time slapshot off the bar and it cruelly ricochets off Emilia Andersson's skate and past the helpless Martin Hasson, it's 6-1! Assists- Kendall Coyne and Amanda Kessel
     
    56:06
    Knight on the slot tries to force the puck under the goalkeeper and just fails in doing so! That Swedish goal seems to have injected a bit of life back into the US
     
    54:27
    Lamoureux skates in, spins around and with her backhand she's denied by an expert pad save from Martin Hasson! The score stays at 5-1 in the Americans' favour
     
    54:27
    Penalty shot now for the USA! Backlin chopped down Jocelyne Lamoureux and she herself will pick herself up to take the shot!
     
    53:04
    Goal for Team Sweden! They've deserved that goal! ANNA BORGQVIST tips in an Eliasson blast from the point and the Swedes have their consolation goal, 5-1! Assists- Emma Eliasson and Pernilla Winberg
     
    52:59
    Vetter clings on the the puck as it almost slipped under her and into the net after a strong skate from Uden Johansson who tried a wraparound attempt! And just before that Martin Hasson did well to stop a tipped Stecklein effort
     
    50:51
    Lowenhielm! The loose puck falls to her at the point and Vetter does really well to tip her powerful slapshot over the crossbar!
     
    50:20
    Vetter sticks away a low pass into her crease from the left hand boards
     
    49:01
    Sweden are doing well in this period so far, their attacks have a little more edge than they did before
     
    48:18
    Lindh! She skates along the boards, turns well and just as she shapes to snip she's stripped of the puck!
     
    46:19
    Lyndsey Fry bursts through to Martin Hasson's left post and she's denied well with the blocker!
     
    45:59
    Vetter tips a heavy slapshot from the left faceoff circle over to keep her shutout going
     
    44:11
    The puck squirms along the Swedish goal line and it's swept away just in time!
     
    43:45
    To their credit Sweden are still committed to the cause but they just cannot hold on to the puck for a significant amount of time
     
    42:31
    Schleper! Just in front of the blue line she has space to take aim and shoot and her slapper gets deflected up and over the net!
    Commentary by

    Shaun Nicolaides

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 7. Carpenter (Bozek, Stack), 8. Bellamy (Decker, Bozek), 12. Kessel (Decker, Marvin), 26. Lamoureux (Lamoureux, Bellamy), 33. Bozek (Coyne), 57. Decker (Coyne, Kessel) – 54. Borgqvist (Eliasson, Winberg)

    USA: Vetter (Schaus)- Bozek, Schleper, Stack, Knight, Carpenter- Marvin, Bellamy, Decker, Coyne, Kessel- Picard, Pucci, M Lamoureux, Duggan, J Lamoureux- Stecklein, Chu, Fry
    Sweden2: Wallner (Martin Hasson)- Backlin, Andersson, Asserholt, Wester, Winberg- Holmgren, Eliasson, Borgqvist, Grahm, Nordin- Engstrom, Olofsson, Ostberg, Lindh- Lowenhielm- Backman, Rask, Uden Johansson
    Referees: Bordeleau, Caughey, Svobodova