ESBJERG, Denmark (AP) — Emma Peschel celebrated her first game for the United States by scoring a goal to help shut out Germany 5-0 at the women’s ice hockey worlds on Sunday.
The 22-year-old defender netted with a wrist shot from the point to make it 2-0 in the opening period of the Group A game.
Casey O’Brien opened the scoring and added an assist in her second game for the U.S. after marking her debut with a goal and an assist in a 7-0 victory over
Switzerland in their opener on Friday.
Alex Carpenter made it 3-0 in the middle period and Abbey Murphy and Joy Dunne scored one apiece to finish the scoring in the third.
Captain Hilary Knight registered an assist to improve her worlds records for assists to 54 and points to 122.
Defender Caroline Harvey contributed two assists and has five in two games.
Goalie Gwyneth Philips posted a 13-shot shutout.
The U.S. will next play in Esbjerg against Austria on Monday.
Canada also stayed perfect with two wins from two games after routing Japan 9-0.
Nine different players scored in the Group B game in Herning.
Erin Ambrose, Daryl Watts and Kendall Cooper had a goal and an assist each, and Chloe Primerano, Rosalie Tremblay, Emma Maltais, Sophie Jaques, Sarah Wozniewicz and Caitlin Kraemer also scored.
Primerano set the pace by putting the Canadians ahead 6:29 into the game by scoring on her own rebound.
Jaques, Wozniewicz and Kraemer scored the last three in the span of 1:32 late in the final period.
Canada goalie Eve Gascon made 14 saves for the shutout.
Next, Canada meets host Denmark in Herning on Monday.
In Group A, Alina Muller scored in overtime for Switzerland to prevail 2-1 over the Czech Republic.
Earlier in Group B , Sweden recovered from an opening 5-1 defeat to Canada by topping rival Finland 4-1. Hilda Svensson had a power play goal and an assist for Sweden.
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