The U.S. women's national hockey team dominated in its first match of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, but will be without assistant captain Brianna Decker as the tournament continues.
The U.S. women's national hockey team dominated in its first match of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, but will be without assistant captain Brianna Decker as the tournament continues.
The game appeared to be over at 5-1 with time expired, but when NBC came out of commercial there was 2:20 on the clock and play resumed. Officials ruled that Finland's Susanna Tapani scored and a replay showed the puck hit the camera. The teams went back in time to that point and replayed the final minutes. There was also a brief light outage earlier in the game.
Decker, a three-time Olympian, collided with Finland's Ronja Savolainen around the 9:32 mark of the first. They were both down for several minutes and Decker's screams could be heard in the empty arena without any fans. Amanda Kessell told the NBC Sports broadcast at intermission the injury "was just sickening."
Kedall Coyne Schofield added a pair of goals in the second period to give Team USA breathing room. Her first was a strike from the circle and she added another 64 seconds later on a redirection.Finland's Susanna Tapani scored the country's first goal of the games on a power play minutes into the third period and Team USA added one more from Carpenter on a feed from Abby Roque midway through. Tapani's unassisted goal that later counted concluded the scoring.
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