HERNING, Denmark — Sarah Fillier thought about it for an instant, but made her Plan B work instead.
Canada’s youngest player at the women’s world hockey championship scored twice in Saturday’s 4-1 win over Switzerland in Herning’s Kvik Hockey Arena.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“By the time I got to the far post, I just was like ‘I’ll just make a play to Ella. She’s wide open up top’ and she hit me back,” Fillier said. “I just got a lucky bounce off a couple shin pads and a back, so it’s nice to get some puck luck early in the game.” But despite six power-play chances, and relentless cowbell ringing from their vocal fan contingent, the Swiss mustered just eight shots on Desbiens. Canada is 16-0 all-time versus Switzerland.
Canada had less than 24 hours to recover for Sunday afternoon’s game against winless Japan. The defending champions cap the preliminary round Tuesday against the U.S. “It was a timely goal for us just in the sense we were killing a lot of penalties late in the third and they did score a goal, so we really didn’t want to give them much life after that,” Turnbull said.Article content
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