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Olympics women’s hockey semifinal, USA vs. Finland highlights, updated bracket and more

By Dave Stevenson

TOPSHOT - US players celebrate after the women's ice hockey semifinal game between the United States and Finland during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung on February 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - US players celebrate after the women's ice hockey semifinal game between the United States and Finland during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung on February 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) /
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Team USA beat Finland 5-0 in Olympics women’s hockey to ensure their spot in the gold medal game

The first of the two Olympics women’s hockey semifinal games went precisely as expected. There has only been one Olympics gold medal game that didn’t feature Team USA (2006). With America’s 5-0 win over Finland, they advance to yet another gold medal game.

From the opening face-off, Team USA showed an impressive killer instinct. Gigi Marvin scored just 2:25 into the game, with captain Meghan Duggan and Amanda Pelkey picking up the assists. With under two minutes left in the first period, Dani Cameranesi capitalized on a turnover by scoring Team USA’s second goal of the period.

In the second period, Finland committed two penalties in under a minute. Team USA made them pay. Jocelyne Lamoureux continued her Olympics success by picking up the third goal of the game 13 minutes into the second period. On her goal, Cameranesi and Kelly Pannek picked up the assists. A mere 34 second later, star forward Hilary Knight picked up her first goal of the tournament. Sidney Morin and Kendall Coyne got the assists on her goal.

Cameranesi iced the game with another power play goal in the third period. Overall, Team USA finally showed that willingness to get dirty and score goals. This is very encouraging going into the gold medal game.

Highlights

Updated Bracket

What’s Next

Team USA advances to the gold medal game once again. They’ll face the winner of the game between Canada and the Olympic Athletes from Russia. It would be a huge surprise if they didn’t face the former.

Next: Best Olympian from each state

Meanwhile, Finland goes to the bronze medal game. They will face the loser of the game between Canada and the Olympic Athletes from Russia. Finland will try to win their third bronze medal and their first since 2010.

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