Mei Miura paces Japanese attack in women's hockey worlds win over newcomer Norway

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Japan bushed recently promoted Norway 4-2 astatine the women's crystal hockey satellite title connected Thursday successful Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

Canada opens rubric defence against Finland astatine 1 p.m. ET successful Czech Republic

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 10, 2025 10:09 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Japan's Mei Miura and Makoto Ito observe  a extremity   with teammates astatine  the Asian Winter Games connected  February 14, 2025 successful  Harbin, China.

Mei Miura, middle, is pictured during play astatine the Asian Winter Games successful February. She led Japan with a extremity and assistance successful Thursday's triumph implicit Norway successful the preliminary circular astatine the satellite women's hockey title successful the Czech Republic. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

Japan bushed recently promoted Norway 4-2 astatine the women's crystal hockey satellite title connected Thursday successful Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

Mei Miura had a extremity and an assistance and Akane Hosoyamada, Rui Ukita, Riri Noro and Akane Shiga besides scored for Japan successful a Group B game.

Andrea Dalen and Marthe Brunvold had a extremity each for Norway to people its instrumentality to the apical part aft a 27-year absence.

At 1 p.m. ET, Canada opens its rubric defence against Finland successful Group A and Sweden faces different newcomer Hungary successful Group B.

The 12-day, 10-nation tournament represents the last large planetary tune-up earlier the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Italy.

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