Canadian women hockey-players smashed Russians with score 12:0
The women`s team of Russia on the hockey played the second match of group tournament at the Olympiad in Torino. The rivals of Russian women were the acknowledged leaders of world hockey, the active Olympic champions women hockey-players of Canada. Our team failed to shoot the goal - 12:0 in favor of North Americans.
In the first period Canadian realized their advantage in all the components of hockey, after shooting into the gates of rivals seven unrequited pucks. Two of them scored Megan Agosta who celebrated her 19th birthday on the day of game. The team of Canada exceeded Russian women, first of all, in the personal skill - speed and handling the skates.
With the score 0:5 the trainers` staff of our team made the decision to replace the goalkeeper: Nadezhda Aleksandrova stood in the gateway instead of Irina Gashennikova. This helped badly - to the final siren the Canadians scored the goals seven times, and Cheri Piper made the hat trick.
We can consider as the positive moments at times not bad play of Russian women in the attack, but when the matter reached the dangerous moments, on the last frontier of the Canadian team Sharlin Labont confidently acted.
Thus, Russian woman, the day before yielded to Swedes (1:3), practically lost the chances to the output into the semi-final. They will finally lose, if the team of Sweden at least lose to Italians, which yesterday were destroyed by Canada with the score 16:0.
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