Team USA Defeats Czechia, 5-1, to Open Olympic Winter Video games

Joy Dunne (O’Fallon, Mo./Ohio State University) doubled the U.S. benefit 3:13 into the second. She scored from the slot following a centering feed from Tessa Janecke (Warren, Ill./Penn State University).

Team USA struck once more simply 1:23 later, as Scamurra used a display screen in entrance of the web to her benefit, stunning Czech netminder Klara Peslarova with a shot alongside the ice that slipped dwelling to place her crew up, 3-0.

Czechia lower the U.S. result in two at 8:27, as Barbora Jurickova scored on a breakaway likelihood instantly out of the penalty field.

Hilary Knight (Sun Valley, Idaho/Seattle Torrent) scored her Thirteenth-career Olympic aim at 17:50, as she powered previous a Czech defender and ripped a wrist shot previous the glove of Peslarova to place the U.S. forward by three.

Scamurra added her second of the competition at 4:22 of the third, snapping shot from the suitable faceoff circle dwelling off a go from Kelly Pannek (Plymouth, Minn./Minnesota Frost).

Team USA is again in preliminary spherical motion Saturday (Feb. 7) towards Finland at Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena. Puck drop is slated for 4:40 p.m. CET (10:40 a.m. ET) and the sport can be broadcast on USA Network and streamed on Peacock.

NOTES: Team USA outshot Czechia, 42-14 … The U.S. went 1-3 on the facility play, whereas Czechia went 0-1 … The U.S. Olympic Women’s Hockey Team improves to 8-0-0-0 (W-OTW-OTL-L) in opening video games on the Olympics and 2-0-0-0 (W-OTW-OTL-L) over Czechia in Olympic contests.