The defending Olympic women’s ice hockey champions defeated the Russian Olympic Committee team 5-0 in a preliminary round victory.
The defending Olympic women’s ice hockey champions defeated the Russian Olympic Committee team 5-0 in a preliminary round victory. “They made it a really hard game, really frustrating for us,” said Team United States Goalie Nicole Hensley, who stopped 12 shots in her 2022 tournament debut at the Beijing Games. “And I think for us, a little adversity is not a bad thing in a tournament like this to have to get through that,” she added. “If anything, it’s just going to bring us closer together.
