Joy Dunne leads US women's hockey to rout of Switzerland
Joy Dunne of the United States celebrates with Tessa Janecke and Laila Edwards after scoring the team's second goal of its game against Switzerland in the Milan Cortina Olympics Caroline Harvey and Joy Dunne each collected a goal and two assists and Gwyneth Philips made 20 saves, fueling the United States to a 5-0 victory over Switzerland on Monday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Alex Carpenter scored for the third time in as many games and added an assist for the Americans (3-0-0), who have outscored the Group A competition by a 15-1 margin in the preliminary round.
The U.S. will look for revenge against Canada on Tuesday in a rematch of the gold-medal game from the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Haley Winn and Hannah Bilka each scored a goal and team captain Hilary Knight notched two assists to boost her Olympic total to 31 points, one shy of tying Jenny Potter as the all-time U.S. leader.
Ava McNaughton relieved Philips late in the third period and made one save.
Andrea Braendli turned aside 45 shots for Switzerland (1-2-0), which has dropped two straight following a 4-3 shootout win over Czechia on Friday.
Braendli denied Taylor Heise on a breakaway early in the first period before the Americans solved her at 6:04 of the session.
Harvey skated in from the left-wing wall and wired a centering feed that Winn directed home from the doorstep.
Dunne doubled the advantage with 5:52 remaining in the second period after a brilliant individual effort.
Dunne forechecked a Swiss defender off the puck in the corner before backhanding a shot that caromed off a skate and into the net for an unassisted goal.
Bilka accepted a feed from Heise in front of the net and swept the puck past Braendli to give the Americans a 3-0 lead at 1:17 of the third period.
Carpenter converted a breakaway before Harvey used a brilliant deke on Braendli to cap the scoring.
--Field Level Media
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