USA women's hockey team throttles archrival Canada as captain Hilary Knight ties Olympic record

The United States' women's crystal hockey squad is simply a freight train, destroying everything successful its path.

The Americans earned their 4th triumph successful arsenic galore games to unfastened up the Milan Cortina Games with yet different blowout, this 1 a 5-0 triumph implicit Canada — it was their third-consecutive 5-0 victory.

In the contest, Hilary Knight tied the U.S. grounds for the astir vocation points successful U.S. Olympic women’s hockey past with a first-period assist.

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Hilary Knight of Team United States celebrates a extremity scored by Caroline Harvey successful the archetypal play during the Women's Preliminary Group A lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected time 4 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santa Giulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 10, 2026, successful Milan, Italy.  (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

The United States scored 2 goals successful each of the archetypal 2 periods. Two were scored by Hannah Bilka, and each was assisted by Abbey Murphy.

It is present the Americans’ seventh consecutive triumph implicit Canada, 1 shy of the rivalry's all-time record. They person outscored their opponents 25-1 truthful far, with Czechia scoring the lone extremity successful the precise archetypal game.

The contention figures to beryllium a preview of the gold-medal game, arsenic six of the 7 gold-medal games successful Olympic past person been betwixt Canada and the U.S. Canada has won 4 of those, including the astir caller successful 2022.

Kirsten Simms (9) of Team United States celebrates with teammates aft scoring a extremity successful the 2nd play during the Women's Preliminary Group A lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected time 4 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santa Giulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 10, 2026, successful Milan, Italy.  (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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Canada and the United States person besides met successful the gold-medal crippled astatine 23 of 24 IIHF Women’s World Championships and 21 of 23 4 Nations Cups since planetary play started successful 1987. Excluding the pandemic, the past clip the 2 countries did not look disconnected successful a gold-medal crippled successful immoderate planetary tourney was 2019, and earlier that, 1993 (there was nary IIHF Women’s World Championship that year). Canada settled for bronze successful the 2019 World Championship, portion the U.S. defeated Finland. It remains the lone twelvemonth Canada did not decorativeness with golden oregon silver, portion the U.S. streak of playing for golden is inactive intact.

Canada, though, has earned golden oregon metallic successful lone 7 Olympics, portion the Americans had to settee for bronze successful 2006.

Caroline Harvey (4) of Team United States celebrates with teammates aft a extremity successful the archetypal play during the Women's Preliminary Group A lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected time 4 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santa Giulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 10, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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Next comes the knockout signifier connected Friday, with semifinals being played Monday, and some the gold- and bronze-medal games connected Feb. 19.

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