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U.S. women’s hockey team loses to Canada, 5-2

By Helene Elliott
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Caroline Ouellette scored two power-play goals in the second period to lead Team Canada to a 5-2 victory over Team USA in a matchup of Vancouver Olympic hockey gold-medal contenders Friday at Spokane, Wash.

Gigi Marvin of Warroad, Minn., and Jenny Potter of Edina, Minn., scored for the U.S. Goaltender Jessie Vetter of Cottage Grove, Wis., lost to Canada for the first time in six games against the defending Olympic gold medalists.

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The two teams are likely to meet again in the Women’s Four Nations Cup, Nov. 3-7 in Finland.

More info about the women’s team is available at the team’s Facebook page and at www.usahockey.com.

--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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