Fillier scores again as Canada tops Sweden, advances to face U.S. in women’s hockey worlds final

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Sarah Fillier continued her goal-scoring streak as Canada advanced to the world women’s hockey championship gold-medal game with a 3-0 win over Sweden on Sunday.

Fillier has scored in four straight games after missing Canada’s first two contests in Denmark with an injury sustained in a tournament warm-up game against the United States.

After struggling to a 3-2 win over Czechia in Friday’s quarterfinals, Canada was in control for the entire game against the Swedes.

Sarah Wozniewicz and Emma Maltais also scored for Canada, while Ann-Renée Desbiens made 13 saves for the shutout.

Sweden goaltender Ebba Svensson Traff allowed three goals on 30 shots.

Canada will face the defending champion U.S. on Monday in a rematch of last year’s gold-medal game, while Sweden will play Finland for bronze.

United States 5, Finland 0

The United States shut out Finland 5-0 on Sunday to advance to the final of the women’s ice hockey worlds.

Captain Hilary Knight had a goal and added an assist with Kelly Pannek, Alex Carpenter, Caroline Harvey and Lacey Eden also scoring.

Aerin Rankel stopped 17 shots for her eighth career worlds shutout and 19th victory.

US' Hilary Knight celebraes after scoring during the semi-final match between USA and Finland of the IIHF Women's Ice Hockey World Championship in Herning, Denmark on Sunday.

U.S. captain Hilary Knight celebrates after scoring during the semi-final match between USA and Finland of the IIHF Women’s Ice Hockey World Championship in Herning, Denmark on Sunday. (Ida Marie Odgaard / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty Images)

The Americans jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the opening period after Pannek netted the opener from the low slot 6:36 in and Knight fed Carpenter with a backhand pass from behind the net to double the advantage with 3:26 remaining.

Harvey, Eden and Knight extended the lead to 5-0 in the span of 1:35 in the second period.

Tournament leading scorer Harvey moved on to 15 points from six games. Knight extended her record point tally to 130 with 74 goals and 56 assists in 93 games at the worlds.

Finland pulled goalie Sanni Ahola, who made 20 saves, after the second period, with Emilia Kyrkko taking over and finishing with nine saves.

Finland will next play in the bronze-medal game after finishing third last year.