The primary shootout of Olympic hockey competitors on the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Video games actually didn’t disappoint.
The women’s Group A matchup between Czechia and Switzerland on the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Enviornment ended regulation in a 3-3 tie, went to additional time after which culminated in an eight-frame penalty shootout which Switzerland survived triumphantly.
Swiss goaltender Saskia Maurer made three straight shootout stops earlier than teammate Ivana Wey sealed the 4-3 win on the eighth penalty shot.
Switzerland rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third interval to safe the Group A win and its first Olympic victory of the match.
Czechia’s Kristyna Kaltounkov obtained on the board first, only a minute and a half into regulation. It was the workforce’s second objective of the match after losing to Team USA on Thursday 5-1.
Six minutes later, Laura Zimmermann answered with an unassisted objective to tie the sport up at one apiece.
Czechia’s Natalie Mlynkova adopted with a objective to offer her squad a 2-1 lead going into the primary intermission.
After a scoreless second interval, Czechia’s Tereza Plosova discovered the web with 13:51 to go in the third to take a 3-1 lead.
The Swiss workforce answered on the facility play with 10:27 left to chop Czechia’s result in one after which they accomplished the comeback and knotted the sport with 2:20 remaining.
Extra time was scoreless and deadlocked between the 2 groups and resulted in an exciting first shootout of the Olympic hockey match.
“We stayed calm, we actually believed. That’s the way you flip it round. Then in the shootout, the followers obtained the total expertise. It’s wonderful for girls’s hockey,” Lara Stadler mentioned after the shootout victory.
