At the end of the basic group of the World Championships in Calgary, the Canadian hockey players finished a long-term 5: 1 winning series of American women at championships, which lasted 29 matches. The reigning five-time world champions lost at the World Cup for the first time since April 2013, when their overseas rivals also defeated them 3: 2 in the group after separate raids.
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“We didn’t play our game today, for the whole match. We just didn’t succeed. We didn’t deserve it and we have to learn from it. They played a phenomenal match and we didn’t,” said US Captain Kendall Coyne Schofield.
The Canadians thus won a stronger group A without losing a point and will face Germany in the quarterfinals. The Americans will play with Japan, the third Finns with the Czech selection and the fourth pair will be Russia and Switzerland.
| Calgary World Hockey Championship: |
| Group A |
| Canada – USA 5: 1 (2: 0, 3: 0, 0: 1) |
| Group B: |
| Japan – Germany 2: 1 (0: 1, 2: 0, 0: 0) |
| Quarterfinal program: |
| Saturday, August 28: |
| 18:00 Russia – Switzerland |
| 21:30 USA – Japan |
| Sunday, August 29: |
| 01:00 Canada – Germany |
| 04:30 Czech Republic – Finland |
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