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BY DONNA SPENCER grim about its performance in a 3-1 loss Saturday to the United States than having its perfect record at the women’s world hockey championship come to an end, Canada suffered its first loss in world championship history after winning 37 straight and now must beat Sweden today (TSN, 6 p.m. CDT) to get a rematch against the Americans in the title game Tuesday. ‘“We really didn’t deserve to win the way we played the total game,” Canadian centre Hayley Wickenheiser said. ‘Luckily, this isn’t Tuesday. We get one more chance on Tuesday to make up for it and we better be ready.” Krissy Wendell, Tricia Dunn and Natalie Darwitz scored for the United States, while Jennifer Botterill replied for Canada. It was the first time the rivals faced ALIFAX — The Canadian women’s hockey team was more each other in a world championship game other than a showdown for gold. The tournament format was altered this year to accommodate nine countries. In other games Saturday, China beat Switzerland 6-3 and Russia defeated Germany 4-2. Canada-U.S. games are regarded as the best in women’s hockey and the game Saturday drew 8,505 to the 10,000-seat Halifax Metro Centre. Both teams were given a thunderous ovation before the puck dropped in anticipation of the best game of the tournament so far. It mostly lived up to its billing in terms of speed and skill and some great work by both goaltenders. But Canada played a shaky first peri od and turned over the puck several times. When it did begin wresting momentum back in the second period, it was unable to get the puck past goal tender Pam Dreyer, who stopped 26 of 27 shots. The Americans repeatedly beat the Canadians to the puck and forechecked them ferociously throughout. They scored two power-play goals to take a 2- 1 lead after the first period and then had Dreyer to help them stay ahead. Dreyer stopped Wickenheiser on two scoring chances in the same shift in the second period and Dreyer also foiled Jayna Hefford on a good chance. “We made her look pretty good sometimes,” Wickenheiser said. “We had scoring chances and if they go in us a different game but, at the same time, I wasn't happy with the whole team per formance.” Kim St. Pierre made some great saves and played a solid game in Canada’s net — with the exception of Darwitz’s goal early in the second peri od. Darwitz threw a sharp-angled shot at the net while St. Pierre was trying to regain position. “I wanted to come out and stop the puck behind the net but I missed it so, while I was coming back, I kind of tripped a little bit and it deflected off my defence’s stick,” she explained.CP CANADIAN PRESS Canadian goaltender Kim St. Pierre gets run over as Pilot Mound na tive Delaney Collins, right, races for the puck with United States forward Jenny Potter Saturday at the women 's world hockey championship in Halifax.
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Sun, Apr 04, 2004
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