Finland beats Sweden to reach semifinals at women's hockey worlds

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 8:20 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Finland became the archetypal squad to scope the semifinals astatine the women's crystal hockey satellite title by beating Sweden 3-2 connected Thursday successful the Czech Republic.

Jenniina Nylund and Ronja Savolainen enactment Finland, past year's bronze medalist, 2-0 up successful the opening play of their quarterfinal.

Sweden answered done goals from Ebba Hedqvist and Josefin Bouveng successful the second.

Susanna Tapani gave the Finns the pb for bully with 8:14 remaining successful the frame.

The Swedes person to settee for the fifth-place crippled connected Saturday.

In the different quarterfinals connected Thursday, defending champion Canada plays Japan, the United States meets Germany and the big Czech Republic faces Switzerland