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The U.S. women's hockey team enters the semifinals with a perfect record. Elsa / Getty Images
The Athletic has live coverage of USA vs. Sweden and Canada vs. Switzerland in the 2026 Olympic women’s hockey semifinals.
A host nation can give you a loud building and a nice anthem. It cannot give you a shortcut through a roster like the United States has. After a 6-0 quarterfinal win over Italy, Team USA advanced to the Olympic semifinals Monday, when it will face off against Sweden.
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U.S. coach John Wroblewski was frustrated with the officiating against Italy, but not the result. The Americans have been a juggernaut so far in the 2026 Winter Games. Now they’re just one win away from playing for their third goal medal in women’s hockey Olympic history.
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In Milan, the U.S. has made opponents play its own style hockey: low oxygen, few clean looks and no room for improvisation. In the prelims, Team USA went 4-0 in Group A, capped by a 5-0 shutout of Canada that was less a hockey game than a weather event — the kind of performance that doesn’t invite a comeback so much as foreclose the possibility of one.
The U.S. scored five goals in each of its first four games and allowed one total, with goaltender Aerin Frankel logging two of those shutouts behind a blue line that treats the middle of the ice like private property.
Frankel also runs an Instagram account devoted to reviewing Caesar salads, a highly specific hobby that has somehow become Olympic Village canon. The handle is @painbyromaine, and yes, it is exactly what it sounds like: greens, grading and dead-serious analysis of croutons.
Sweden moved into the semifinal round Friday with a 2-0 win over Czechia. Win, and the U.S. will get a rematch in the next round against either Canada or Switzerland for the gold medal. Lose, and the U. S. will still get a rematch — but for the bronze instead.
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Jenny Catlin is a contributor for The Athletic based in Colorado. A former track and ringside announcer, she covers a range of sports with an eye for the people and subcultures that surround them.
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