Poulin breaks Wickenheiser's Canadian record for career points in world championships

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 19, 2025 12:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 22 minutes ago

Marie-Philip Poulin has acceptable a Canadian grounds for vocation points successful women's satellite hockey championships.

Poulin's extremity successful the archetypal play of a semifinal against Finland gave her 39 goals and 48 assists for a vocation 87 points.

Poulin of Beauceville, Que., passed Hayley Wickenheiser's 86 accrued from 1994 to 2016.

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Women's championships became an yearly tourney starting successful 1999.

Poulin and Wickenheiser are tied for the astir satellite title appearances by a Canadian subordinate astatine 13. The 34-year-old Poulin played successful her archetypal successful 2009.

Canada's goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens besides sought a tourney grounds successful the semifinal. The 31-year-old from Clermont, Que., needed 1 triumph to acceptable an all-time tourney grounds of 22 by a goaltender.

U.S. beats Czechs successful semifinal

Kelly Pannek scored to rally the United States past the big Czech Republic 2-1 and into the last astatine the women's hockey satellite title connected Saturday in Ceske Budejovice.

In Sunday's final, the U.S. volition play defending champion Canada oregon past year's bronze medallist Finland, who conscionable successful the different semifinal aboriginal Saturday.

With the victory, the Americans improved to 6-0 against the Czechs all-time astatine the worlds and 3-0 successful semifinals.

Laila Edwards besides scored for the U.S. and skipper Hilary Knight recorded an assistance to summation her grounds astatine the worlds to 52. U.S. goalie Aerin Frankel made 10 saves.

"I'm arrogant of however this squad fought tonight," U.S. manager John Wroblewski said. "Pucks were not bouncing our mode aboriginal but we dug successful and pulled it off."

Pannek has earned astatine slightest a constituent successful each U.S. crippled and leads the squad with 4 goals.

Pannek skated astir the nett and her backhand changeable was saved by Czech goalie Klara Peslarova, but she netted the victor connected a rebound 8:26 into the last period.

In the 2nd play wherever the Americans pushed hard for an equalizer, outshooting the Czechs 17-2 and 45-11 overall, Edwards got it 8:56 in, wristing a changeable into the extortion of the nett from the near ellipse connected a powerfulness play.

Tereze Plosova scored for the Czechs, who volition play the bronze medal crippled for the 4th consecutive tournament.

The Czechs stunned the blistery favourite, taking a pb with 4:32 near successful the opening play to the delight of the sell-out assemblage of astir 6,000. Klara Hymlarova seized the puck down the extremity and fed Plosova, who changeable implicit the enarthrosis of Frankel.