Game Report 2355

IIHF Women's World Championship

PLAYED AT: Metro Areena
Date: Apr 14, 2019
GAME NOTES: CANADA WINS BRONZE AT WOMEN’S WORLDS JASON LA ROSE ESPOO, Finland – Loren Gabel (Kitchener, Ont./Clarkson University, ECAC) scored a pair of goals to lead a balanced offence, and Canada’s National Women’s Team earned bronze at the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship with a 7-0 win over Russia on Sunday. The Canadians have medalled at all 19 women’s worlds – 10 gold, eight silver and one bronze. Seven different players finished with multi-point performances, and 11 put their names on the scoresheet. Rebecca Johnston (Sudbury, Ont./Calgary, CWHL), Natalie Spooner (Scarborough, Ont./Toronto, CWHL), Erin Ambrose (Keswick, Ont./Montreal, CWHL) and Jamie Lee Rattray (Kanata, Ont./Markham, CWHL) had a goal and an assist each, while Renata Fast (Burlington, Ont./Toronto, CWHL) and Sarah Nurse (Hamilton, Ont./Toronto, CWHL) contributed two helpers apiece. Geneviève Lacasse (Kingston, Ont./Montreal, CWHL) made six saves to record the shutout. Spooner was first on the board, beating Russian goaltender Nadezhda Morozova with a wraparound at 6:08, and Bourbonnais hammered home a slap shot at 15:31 to send the Canadians to the dressing room up 2-0. Canada held the Russians without a shot in the second period, but could only get one of their 12 past Morozova; Johnston took a short pass from Nurse and went five-hole midway through the middle frame. The floodgates opened in the third, starting with Gabel taking advantage of a miscue by Morozova to slip home the 4-0 goal just past the four-minute mark. A shot from Ambrose banked off the leg of Rattray and in at 8:13, and Ambrose gathered in a loose puck and went upstairs on Morozova at 14:21 to stretch the lead to six. Gabel capped the scoring in style just 49 seconds later, racing in on a breakaway and wiring in her sixth of the tournament. She finished tied with Spooner for the team lead, and just one back of U.S. forward Hilary Knight for most in the tournament. Spooner was Canada’s top scorer with 10 points, one ahead of Brianne Jenner (Oakville, Ont./Calgary, CWHL) and two up on Nurse.

Visiting Team: Canada

Home Team: Russia

CANADA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Szabados, Shannon
G	31	Lacasse, Geneviève
G	38	Maschmeyer, Emerance
	3	Larocque, Jocelyne
	4	Lacquette, Brigette
	6	Johnston, Rebecca
	7	Stacey, Laura
	8	Fortino, Laura
	11	Saulnier, Jill
	14	Fast, Renata
	15	Daoust, Melodie
	19	Jenner, Brianne
	20	Nurse, Sarah
	23	Ambrose, Erin
	24	Spooner, Natalie
	25	Bourbonnais, Jaime
	26	Clark, Emily
	28	Zandee-Hart, Micah
	36	Gabel, Loren
	39	Bettez, Ann-Sophie
	47	Rattray, Jamie Lee

CANADA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
2nd	20	2:00	Tripping	1:13	1		1:13	3:13
2nd	6	2:00	Tripping	10:32	1		10:32	12:32

RUSSIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Merkusheva, Valeria
G	31	Prugova, Anna
G	92	Morozova, Nadezhda
	7	Kanaeva, Diana
	11	Ganeyeva, Liana
	13	Pirogova, Nina
	15	Pavlova, Valeria
	17	Kadirova, Fanuza
	18	Sosina, Olga
	22	Batalova, Maria
	23	Timofeyeva, Anna
	33	Teryoshkina, Daria
	42	Bratisheva, Oxana
	59	Dergachyova, Yelena
	68	Shtaryova, Alevtina
	70	Shibanova, Anna
	72	Savonina, Anna
	73	Kulishova, Viktoria
	76	Nikolayeva, Yekaterina
	88	Smolina, Yekaterina
	90	Vafina, Alexandra
	97	Shokhina, Anna

RUSSIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	7	2:00	Body-Checking	15:57	1		15:57	17:57
2nd	76	2:00	Closing Hand on Puck	9:59	1		9:59	11:59
2nd	13	2:00	Interference	12:51	1		12:51	14:51
2nd	22	2:00	Hooking	13:24	1		13:24	15:24
2nd	59	2:00	Hooking	18:55	1		18:55	0:55
3rd	76	2:00	Body-Checking	6:33	1		6:33	8:13
3rd	92	2:00	Tripping	8:37	1		8:37	10:37
3rd	22	2:00	Hooking	12:44	1		12:44	14:44
3rd	13	2:00	Body-Checking	19:31	1		19:31

CANADA Goals

CANADA PLAYERS (plus)

RUSSIA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st