UTICA, N.Y. — Canada heads into the final four at the women's world hockey championship still a work in progress.
Sweden's subsequent cross-checking penalty and allowing two goals in the span of less than a minute salted the win away for Canada. Canada required a Sarah Nurse overtime goal to beat Sweden 3-2 in last year's quarterfinal in Brampton, Ont., but got the job done more emphatically in Utica, N.Y. "Because of the penalties the flow of the game was just blah. It was painful to be honest. I thought we did a relatively good job sticking with it and not getting too frustrated with it.
Ljungblom backhanded a rebound by a prone Maschmeyer midway through the third period, but officials ruled the play was whistled dead when Maschmeyer made the initial save.