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Sunday, April 1, 2007

U.S. Women’s National Team Blanks Sweden, 5-0
Game in Preparation for the 2007 IIHF Women’s World Championship

WARROAD, Minn. – Chanda Gunn (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wis.) stopped all 22 total shots they faced to lead the U.S. Women’s National Team to a 5-0 blanking of Sweden today at the Gardens Arena. The afternoon match-up was the second of a pair of games between the two clubs in preparation for the 2007 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship.

Team USA will now travel to Selkirk, Manitoba, for the start of the world championship. The Americans will faceoff against Kazakhstan in the first of two preliminary-round games on Tuesday (April 3) at 7:30 p.m. CDT.

After a scoreless opening frame, Team USA scored five unanswered goals in the final two periods for its second straight win over the Swedes.

“Overall, it was a pretty good effort,” said Mark Johnson, head coach of Team USA. “In the last 40 minutes we created some energy and had more hunger than we did to start the game. Now we just need to get to Manitoba and get ready for Tuesday’s competition.”

Team USA came out firing in the second frame, scoring three goals before nine minutes had expired to take a 3-0 lead. Tiffany Hagge (Minneapolis, Minn.) put the United States on the scoreboard at 3:53 when she took a pass in front of the net from Gigi Marvin (Warroad, Minn.) and shoveled it past Swedish netminder Sara Gran.

Angela Ruggiero (Harper Woods, Mich.) used a deke to light the lamp next for Team USA at 7:02 during a 4-on-4 situation. Just over a minute later, at 8:13, Natalie Darwitz (Eagan, Minn.) skated up the slot and put a wrister high glove side to give the U.S. a 3-0 advantage.

In the third stanza, Molly Engstrom (Siren, Wis.) and Marvin each scored their third goals in two games to account for the 5-0 final. Engstrom’s tally came at 1:07 with the man advantage when she took a slap shot from the middle of the slot. Marvin closed out the scoring as she grabbed her own rebound in front of the Swedish net and tipped it in at 5:12.

Team USA was 1-for-4 on the power play, while Sweden was unsuccessful on five chances.

NOTES: Marvin led Team USA with five points (3-2) in its two games vs. Sweden ... The United States outshot Sweden 28-22, including a 13-3 margin in the second period ... Team USA outscored the Swedes 12-1 in the two pre-tournament games ... Team USA has won one gold medal and eight silvers in the nine previous IIHF Women’s World Championships … Hilary Witt, head women’s ice hockey coach at Yale University, and Erin Whitten Hamlen, associate head women’s ice hockey coach at the University of New Hampshire, are serving as assistant coaches for Team USA.

GAME SUMMARY

Scoring By Period

USA 0-3-2 -- 5
SWE 0-0-0 -- 0

First Period – Scoring: None. Penalties: USA, Cahow (interference), 1:27; USA, King (body checking), 12:49.

Second Period – Scoring: 1, USA, Hagge (Marvin), 3:53; 2, USA, Ruggiero (unassisted), 7:02 (4x4); 3, USA, Darwitz (Weiland), 8:13. Penalties: SWE, Elfsberg (body checking), 1:12; SWE, Elfsberg (slashing), 5:49; USA, Darwitz (slashing), 6:07; USA, Darwitz (roughing), 9:49; SWE, Rundqvist (interference), 9:49; SWE, Elfsberg (body checking), 19:26.

Third Period – Scoring: 4, USA, Engstrom (Ruggiero, Lawler), 1:07 (pp); 5, USA, Marvin (Engstrom), 5:12. Penalties: USA, Engstrom (interference), 9: 02; USA, Duggan (body checking), 9:53; SWE, Svensson (holding), 12:41.

Shots By Period   1    2    3    Total
USA                    9   13   6     28
SWE                   12   3    7     22

Goaltending (SH-SV)       1        2        3      Total
USA, Gunn, 29:49       12-12    2-2     x-x    14-14
USA, Vetter, 30:11        x-x      1-1     7-7      8-8
SWE, Gran, 60:00         9-9    13-10    6-4    28-23

Power Play: USA 1-4; SWE 0-5
Penalties: USA 6-12; SWE 5-10
Officials: Referee-Stacey Livingstone; Linesmen-Andrea Weissman, Tina Simonson
Attendance: 912

Team USA 2007 IIHF Women’s World Championship Schedule
April 3-10 • Winnipeg & Selkirk, Man.

Date        Opponent                  Location                 Time (CDT)/Result
March 30 Sweden (ex.)             Grand Forks, N.D.  W, 7-1
April 1    Sweden (ex.)              Warroad, Minn.      W, 5-0
April 3    Kazakhstan                Selkirk                   7:30 p.m.
April 5    China                        Selkirk                   7:30 p.m.
April 7    Playoff Round           Winnipeg               TBA
April 8    Playoff Round           Winnipeg               TBA
April 10  Bronze-Medal Game   Winnipeg              3:30 p.m.
              Gold-Medal Game      Winnipeg               7:30 p.m.

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