
(Chinese Ice Hockey Association-Liu Xi)The USA will have its second game 15:30pm April 6th,2008 against Team Swizterland.
The second-seeded United States and NO.5 seed Switzerland meet in the second and final prelimitary-round game of Group B for both teams here this afternoon at the Baqu Arena. Team USA is coming off an 8-1 victory over Germany on Friday, while Switzerland topped Germany,3-0,yesterday.
Today marks the fifth meeting between the USA and Switzerland in IIHF world Women Championship play. The USA holds the 4 advantage over the swiss in the previous meetings.The two teams last met on March 30th, 2004, with Team USA coming out the 9-1 winner.Two of the four USA victories have out by way out shutout as Team USA has outscored Switzerland by a 48-4 margin.At the last world championship in 2007, the United Stated captured the silver medal while Swizterland finished fifth in the nine-team field.