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U.S. Women Roll to Victory Over Finland

11/09/2012, 1:00pm MST
By USA Hockey

VANTAA, Finland – The U.S. Women’s National Team defeated Finland, 15-1, tonight in the final round-robin game of the 2012 Four Nations Cup at Tikkurila Valtti Arena.

“I thought it was very encouraging,” said Katey Stone (Arlington, Mass.), head coach of Team USA. “A lot of really good things happened today and a lot of people participated in getting on the scoresheet. We did a lot of things better today than we did the first two days (that) we played. Our game’s building in the right direction and that’s promising.”

Hilary Knight (Sun Valley, Idaho) scored a natural hat trick in the first period and added a fourth goal in the second period. Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wis.) also had four goals in the game. Amanda Kessel (Madison, Wis.) was the third U.S. player to reach four points (1-3=4) when she contributed a goal early in the third period.

Lyndsey Fry (Chandler, Ariz.) scored her first international goal, a tally that would eventually hold up as the game-winner, at 7:12 of the first period and tacked on two assists for three points in the contest. In total, 16 different players recorded at least one point and 11 players had multiple-point efforts in the offensive flurry. 

The U.S. will play Canada in the championship game tomorrow (Saturday) at 5 p.m. (10 a.m. EST).  The two teams met earlier in round-robin play, a game in which Team USA dropped a 3-1 decision to the Canadians.

NOTES: Brianna Decker was chosen as Team USA’s Player of the Game … U.S. goaltender Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wis.) recorded nine saves in the game … Team USA outshot Finland 61-10. 

Game Summary
 
Scoring by Period  1  2  3  F  
USA  7  3  5 15  
FIN  0  1  0  1  

First Period – Scoring: 1, USA, Knight, 5:03; 2, USA, Fry (Erickson), 7:12; 3, USA, Knight (Bellamy), 8:52 (pp); 4, USA, Knight (Fry, Bellamy), 9:04; 5, USA, Decker (Coyne), 9:44 (sh); 6, USA, Decker (Kessel, Schleper), 13:42 (pp); 7, USA, Chu (Savage, Chesson), 17:19 (pp). Penalties: FIN, Linstedt (slashing), 7:34; USA, Chu (tripping), 9:33; FIN, Hiirikoski (body checking), 13:09; USA, M. Lamoureux (cross-checking), 14:18; FIN, Saarimäki (holding), 16:27; FIN, Villilä (hooking), 19:07.   
 
Second Period – Scoring: 8, USA, Decker (Kessel, Bozek), 2:30 (pp); 9, FIN, Tuominen, 4:32 (pp); 10, USA, Knight (Fry, Chesson), 12:02; 11, USA, Decker (Kessel), 14:52.  Penalties: FIN, Villilä (holding), 1:56; USA, Knight (tripping), 3:53; USA, Knight (hooking), 18:25.   
 
Third Period – Scoring: 12, USA, Kessel (Coyne), 3:00; 13, USA, Stack (J. Lamoureux, M. Lamoureux), 4:57; 14, USA, J. Lamoureux (M. Lamoureux, Chesson), 7:32 (pp); 15, USA, Bozek (Erickson), 12:01; 16, USA, Bellamy (Picard), 17:56 (pp). Penalties: FIN, Villilä (holding), 5:41; USA, Bellamy (cross-checking), 9:22; FIN, Hallvar (hooking), 14:45, FIN, Villilä (cross-checking), 17:17.  
 
Shots On Goal   1  2  3  Total  
USA  28  16  17  61  
FIN  3  6  1  10  
  
Goaltenders (SV/SH)   1  2  3 Total  
USA, Vetter, 60:00  7-7  5-6  1-1  9-10  
FIN, Portnoj, 9:44  13-18  -  -  13-18  
FIN, Räisänen, 50:16  8-10  13-16  12-17  33-43  

Power play: USA, 6-8; FIN, 1-5
Penalties: USA, 5-10; FIN, 8-16  

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In the middle stanza, the Americans scored twice more to go up 4-0 before Canada used a power play to get on the board. U.S. goal No. 3 came at 2:29 of the period. CaptainSarah Erickson (LaPorte, Minn.) took a shot from the right faceoff circle that rebounded out to the left side, where Kendall Coyne (Palos Heights, Ill.) put it low past Canadian netminder Delayne Brian. Decker was next to light the lamp for the United States, as she skated the puck into Canada's zone from center ice and got a shot off with a Canadian player in tow. The shot hit the crossbar and landed in the net at 8:14 for a four-goal U.S. advantage.

The lone Canadian goal of the second period came at 18:17, while the Americans were down a man and had just killed off over a minute of a 5-on-3 Canadian advantage. Lauriane Rougeau took a shot from the left point that went off Carolyne Prevost's stick and into the U.S. net past Grogan.

Canada cut its deficit to 4-2 early in the final frame when Jessica Jones' wrister from the left faceoff circle slipped low inside the far post at 2:20. Amanda Kessel (Madison, Wis.) secured the gold-medal victory for Team USA with 7:46 to go in the game, as she skated in front of the goalmouth and beat Brian low for the 5-2 final.

NOTES: Brooke Ammerman was named the U.S. Player of the Game ...Team USA went 1-for-6 on the power play, while Canada was 1-for-5 with the man advantage ... Alyssa Grogan won the Directorate Award as the tournament's top goaltender ... Kendall Coyne, Anne Schleper (St. Cloud, Minn.) and Sarah Erickson were named Team USA's best players of the tournament ... Amanda Kessel (4-7--10) led the U.S. team in scoring ... Joining Katey Stone on the coaching staff as assistant coaches were Erin Whitten Hamlen, associate women’s ice hockey coach at the University of New Hampshire, andBob Deraney, head women’s ice hockey coach at Providence College.

GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period

USA 2 2 1 -- 5

CAN 0 1 1 -- 2

First Period - Scoring: 1, USA, Mangene (Ammerman), 12:12; 2, USA, Ammerman (Decker), 18:48. Penalties: USA, Bolden (high-sticking), 1:08; CAN, Rougeau (interference), 1:20; CAN, Watt (delay of game), 18:48.

Second Period - Scoring: 3, USA, Coyne (Erickson), 2:29; 4, USA, Decker (unassisted), 8:14; 5, CAN, Prevost (Rougeau), 18:17 (pp). Penalties: USA, Sherry (interference), 4:07; USA, Wild (holding), 8:42; CAN, Poulin (cross-checking), 13:22; USA, Bolden (interference), 16:12; USA, Grogan (tripping), 17:18.

Third Period - Scoring: 6, CAN, Jones (Prevost), 2:20; 7, USA, Kessel (unassisted), 12:14 (pp). Penalties: CAN, Team (too many players on the ice), 5:26; CAN, Poulin (hooking), 10:25; CAN, Watt (tripping), 18:15.

Shots by Period 1 2 3 Total
USA   13 8 6 27
CAN   9 13 6 28
           
Goaltenders (SH/SV)   1 2 3 Total
USA, Grogan, 60:00   9-9 13-12 6-5 28-26
CAN, Brian, 60:00   13-11 8-6 6-5 27-22

Power Play:USA 1-6; CAN 1-5

Penalties: USA 5-10; CAN 6-12
Officials: Referee-Joy Tottman (GBR); Linesmen-Marina Konstantinova (RUS), Alice Stanley (GBR)

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