Canada Beat Sweden, Reach Women’s Worlds Final

Canada vs Sweden Women’s Worlds Result: Control After A Scoreless First

The semifinal stayed scoreless through the first period, then Canada took it over. Canada scored twice in the second period and once in the third, and Sportsnet’s report had Canada in control for the entire game against the Swedes. Fillier opened the scoring, Sarah Wozniewicz and Emma Maltais also scored, and Ann-Renée Desbiens made 13 saves for the shutout. Sweden goaltender Ebba Svensson Traff allowed three goals on 30 shots, a far heavier night than the nine shots she faced in the quarterfinals.

The clean sheet carried its own selection story. Canada had split its starts through the tournament, with Ève Gascon in net for Friday’s quarterfinal, and TSN’s semifinal preview noted Desbiens led the tournament in save percentage at .974 entering the day. She got the semifinal crease and delivered a shutout, and Canada’s defensive day was tidy enough that 13 saves were all the night asked of her.

Fillier Scores In A Fourth Straight Game For Canada

Fillier’s opening goal extended her scoring streak to four straight games, a run that started only after she missed Canada’s first two contests in Denmark. She was hurt in a tournament warm-up game against the United States, and TSN reported a shoulder injury kept her out of the Sweden opener and the Japan game. Since returning, she had three goals and an assist in three games entering Sunday, per the same TSN preview, and her semifinal goal made it four games in a row with her name on the scoresheet.

The timing matters for a Canadian team playing this tournament without its captain. Marie-Philip Poulin is absent after surgery in July for a torn ACL and meniscus, and NBC Sports reported this is Canada’s first major tournament without Poulin since 2008. Fillier, the Georgetown, Ontario forward, has become the finisher this rebuilt group leans on, while Jessie Eldridge, who scored twice in the opener against Sweden, led Canada in scoring through five games with three goals and eight points.

A Sharper Night After The Czechia Scare

Sunday was the response Friday demanded. Canada outshot Czechia 41-16 in the quarterfinal and still had to survive a late push in a 3-2 win, with Kristyna Kaltounkova scoring twice for the Czechs. “We have a lot of respect for Czechia; they played a great game,” Canada defender Erin Ambrose said after that game. Against Sweden there was no late push to survive: Canada held the Swedes to 13 shots and closed the game out with a third-period goal.

Sweden’s run still ends as a breakthrough. The Swedes were playing their first women’s worlds semifinal since 2009, having blanked Switzerland 1-0 in the quarterfinals on Sara Hjalmarsson’s goal, and they will play Finland for bronze on Monday. Canada and Sweden had already met in the tournament opener on November 6, a 5-1 Canadian win built on Eldridge’s two goals and an assist. Hockey Canada’s game notes put Sunday in a longer frame: it was the 85th meeting between the two countries dating back to the inaugural Women’s Worlds in 1990, and only the second time they had ever met in a Women’s Worlds semifinal.

Canada And The United States Meet Again For Gold

The final is the one this rivalry keeps producing. The United States beat Finland 5-0 in Sunday’s first semifinal, and NBC Sports reported the two countries will now meet in the World Women’s Hockey Championship final for the 24th time in 25 all-time editions. Hilary Knight had a goal and an assist against Finland, Aerin Frankel stopped all 13 shots she faced, and the Americans are 6-0 at these worlds, winning every game by at least five goals. Since the start of the 2025 Worlds, the U.S. has won 20 consecutive games between world championship and Olympic play, a program record, and Frankel’s shutout was her 20th career worlds win, breaking Jessie Vetter’s American record of 16.

USA Hockey’s semifinal report has the gold-medal game set for Monday, November 16, at 7 p.m. local time and 1 p.m. ET in Herning. Canada brings the tournament’s youngest roster since 2013, an average age of 26, into that game, and a perfect run of its own through Denmark. One of the two streaks ends Monday: either the Americans’ record 20-game win streak, or a Canadian run built without Poulin and carried in the biggest moments by Fillier, who has scored in four straight games since returning from injury.

For Canada, the shape of the week is now simple. A rebuilt team opened with a 5-1 win over these same Swedes, survived its one real scare against Czechia, and answered with its most complete game of the tournament when a place in the final was on the line. Gold is one win away, and it runs through the opponent it always runs through.

References

Sportsnet (The Canadian Press), “Fillier scores again as Canada beats Sweden to reach women’s world hockey final,” November 15, 2026. NBC Sports, “U.S. women’s hockey team gets Canada in world championship final with historic streak at stake,” November 15, 2026. TSN, “Canada takes on Sweden; USA draws Finland in Women’s Worlds semifinals on TSN,” November 15, 2026. Hockey Canada, “Game Notes: Canada vs. Sweden (Nov. 15),” November 15, 2026. The Score (Associated Press), “Canada eases past Sweden, USA routs Swiss at women’s worlds,” November 6, 2026.