Canada to face U.S. for gold at inaugural Para Ice Hockey Women’s World Challenge
Canada bounced again in an enormous method on Saturday on the inaugural Para Ice Hockey Ladies’s World Problem in Inexperienced Bay, Wis.
The Canadian girls’s Para hockey crew claimed back-to-back shutout wins in round-robin play towards Group World and Nice Britain whereas scoring a mixed 24 objectives.
Canada dropped its opening match of the four-team match on Friday with a one-sided 5-0 loss to the U.S., however the rivals will meet once more in Sunday’s gold-medal remaining. The Individuals completed round-robin play undefeated after additionally blanking Nice Britain and Group World on Saturday.
Canadian captain Alanna Mah led the way in which with 4 objectives in Canada’s 12-0 win over Group World, whereas Raphaëlle Tousignant scored a hat trick and Alyssa White added two objectives. Group World is comprised of athletes from a number of nations.
Fellow Canadian ahead Emily de Boer added a second-period objective, whereas defenceman Claire Buchanan and ahead Aubree Clements scored within the third.
Canadian nationwide crew veterans Tracey Arnold and Tuyet Morris Yurczyszyn mixed for the shutout in web, with Canada outshouting Group World 25-4.
Canada continued rolling towards towards Nice Britain with one other dominant 12-0 victory that noticed Clements ship a four-goal efficiency of her personal.
Canada peppered British goaltender Nicole Jodi Hill with 46 photographs, with objectives additionally coming from Tousignant, de Boer, White, Myriam Adam, Mackenzie Spong, Meghan Harris, and Peggy Asinnck, who scored twice.
Yurczyszyn performed the whole recreation towards Nice Britain however solely confronted two photographs.
The U.S. additionally regarded sturdy on Saturday with a pair of 6-0 victories towards Group World and Nice Britain — who will meet within the bronze-medal recreation on Sunday at 12 p.m. ET. The ultimate kicks off at 4 p.m. ET on the Cornerstone Group Heart.
The occasion serves as an essential stepping stone towards establishing a girls’s Para ice hockey world championship, with the final word objective of growing feminine participation in Para hockey and having the game included within the Paralympics.
In one other first for the game, the occasion options an all-female officiating crew, together with Canadian officers Jane Ogilvie and Danielle Williams.
