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Espoo 2019 day five: Canada crushes Russia 5-1

In today’s games, Natalie Spooner marked a milestone, Japan dug themselves a bit of a hole, Finland cruised to victory and France gave themselves a reason to sing.

Group A

USA 3 9 3 0 0 0 17 4 13
CAN 3 6 2 0 0 1 13 4 9
FIN 3 6 2 0 0 1 12 8 4
RUS 3 3 1 0 0 2 3 10 -7
SUI 4 0 0 0 0 4 3 22 -19

Group B

CZE 3 9 3 0 0 0 11 5 6
GER 3 6 1 1 1 1 7 6 1
SWE 3 4 1 0 1 1 6 8 -2
JPN 3 3 1 0 0 2 6 6 0
FRA 4 2 0 1 0 3 5 10 -5

Czech Republic 3 vs Japan 1

In what was not quite a must-win game for Japan, both teams showed they were taking this game seriously by putting their starters Nana Fujimoto and Klára Peslarová in net for the third consecutive game.