By The Canadian Press

Canadian women top Switzerland 4-0 to op

Canadian women top Switzerland 4-0 to open Olympic title defence

Feb 7, 2026 | 2:30 PM

MILAN — Canada opened its Olympic women’s hockey title defence with a 4-0 win over Switzerland.

Sarah Fillier, Natalie Spooner and Julia Gosling scored power-play goals and Daryl Watts struck even strength for Canada.

Switzerland was scheduled to be Canada’s second opponent of the Milan Cortina Games. However, Canada’s original opener — on Thursday against Finland — was rescheduled to Feb. 12 because of multiple cases of the norovirus among the Finns.

A Swiss player also had the virus, which put the hockey team in isolation Friday and out of the opening ceremonies after a 4-3 shootout win over Czechia earlier that day. But Switzerland iced 20 skaters and two goalies at the Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena.

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