Canada defeated Team USA 3-2 on Thursday to win its fifth gold medal in the sport. Either Canada or the U.S. has won every gold medal since women's hockey ...
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Either the United States or Canada has won every women's hockey gold since the sport was added to the Olympic slate in 1998, with Canada securing its fifth ...
Canada has seven of the top scorers in the tournament, led by Sarah Nurse (16 points). It’s a huge opportunity for Cavallini, who didn’t play in PyeongChang and thought about walking away from the sport, only to work her way back to this stage. After Canada won a faceoff in the Americans’ defensive zone, Sarah Nurse found herself with the puck and plenty of room in front of Alex Cavallini’s net. Cavallini allowed two goals in her first three starts of these Olympics. She has allowed two in the first 17 minutes of the final. Marie-Philip Poulin was the one to tap it home for her second of the game, seventh in Olympic gold medal games all-time. Expect the Americans to make a desperate push in the third period after Knight’s 12th Olympic goal, which moves her to third in U.S. Olympic history. Roman Stubbs:As one would expect, it’s starting to get a little chippy — Brianne Jenner and Abbey Murphy just exchanged words behind Canada’s net after a stoppage in play — and frustration is mounting for the Americans. Marie-Philip Poulin’s second goal of the game makes it 3-0 midway through the second, and it comes on Canada’s 16th shot of the game. But Canada’s captain, Marie-Philip Poulin, is outscoring the U.S. single-handedly, and an American comeback would be as unprecedented as Canada’s early dominance: the three-goal lead it built before Knight’s goal was the first three-goal lead either of these teams has had in six Olympic gold medal matchups. Roman Stubbs:The U.S. has gone 0-for-3 on their power play opportunities today and desperately needed a score there in the middle of the third period to trim this deficit to a goal. Though the Americans struggled to control the puck in the first period, they slowly settled into a more consistent offensive attack by the time the third period began, but were unable to capitalize enough to overcome their hole. Her team dominated faceoffs all night, winning one in the first period that led to Canada’s first goal when Natalie Spooner buried a puck sent her way Despite a late push that included several grade-A scoring chances in the third period and a late goal from Amanda Kessel with an empty net, the United States could not overcome an early three-goal deficit and fell to Canada, 3-2, in the gold medal game. Leading the way was star Marie-Philip Poulin, who had scored two stunning goals in the first two periods, including a rebound putback with 11 minutes remaining in the second period to spot her team the three-goal lead.
Canada prevailed over the Americans to capture the gold medal in the latest edition of the border rivalry, but despite the result, the women vowed to ...
It can’t not be visible because it’s not the Olympic Games. We need to continue to push for visibility, we need to continue to fight for women’s hockey, because it’s not good enough. We did our best to try to come together, and I’m proud of our team for sticking together through it all.” “Didn’t know if I was going to make it on the flight here,” she said. The U.S. must wait another four years to get another crack at Canada on the Olympic stage. “That’s the amazing part—there was a lot of adversity,” Kessel added. “Didn’t know I was going to get a start or not. Despite plenty of bad-faith hand-wringing over the yawning—yet nonetheless shrinking—gap between them and the rest of the world, the road for both North American teams was hardly posh. For starters, fight and character were plenty evident as the defending champions rallied from a 3-0 hole thanks to a shorthanded strike from Knight late in the second period and forward Amanda Kessel’s six-on-four tally with 12.5 seconds left. It is about U.S. captain Kendall Coyne Schofield choking up and breaking down while speaking to reporters—and not because her squad failed to beat Canadian goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens more than twice on 40 shots. “O Canada” came on over the loudspeakers, the Canadians crooned along and later, Hilary Knight and her teammates trudged through the mixed zone to attempt to encapsulate how Thursday afternoon’s 3-2 defeat—their third in the past six Olympic finals by that exact score, against this exact team, with the stakes sky-high as always—felt. They could’ve easily folded against juggernaut Canada, which entered having already set the single-Olympic scoring record with 56 goals and exited with five of seven members of the all-tournament team, including MVP Brianne Jenner. Instead they authored another instant classic. They waited as Wukesong Sports Centre filled with sporadic cheers of LET’S GO CANADA, as a maple leaf flag was fetched and flapped in joy.
Jumping to an early lead that they never lost, Canada's women's hockey team defeated the U.S. 3-2 for the gold medal at the Beijing Games on Thursday.
Canada won the gold against Sweden that year. U.S. forward Hilary Knight answered back in the second to get the American team on the board. Canada earlier that day routed Switzerland 10-3 to go on to the secure their spot. “It was a group effort,” Poulin said after the game. After Thursday’s final at the Beijing Games, a U.S. women’s team has won two golds, four silvers and a bronze in the Olympics. And it’s just a wonderful game.” In the men’s competition, the U.S. team was eliminated in Wednesday’s quarterfinal, losing 2-3 to Slovakia in a shootout. “I think it’s wonderful hockey. The only time the two teams have not met in the final match was at in 2006 at Torino, Italy, when the U.S. lost in the semi-finals and beat Finland for a bronze. The U.S. beat Canada for the gold in 1998 and again in a shootout at the 2018 PyeongChang Games, but Canada won at every other Olympics. Thursday’s win is the fifth Olympic gold for Canada, and its fourth victory over the U.S. in a final game. The rivalry between the U.S. and Canada is one of the biggest of the Winter Olympics.
The Canadians proved Thursday that all of it was justified: They overpowered the United States in the gold medal game, 3-2, and reclaimed the Olympic crown that ...
Thursday’s spectacle was familiar ground, the sixth gold medal game between Canada and the United States since women’s hockey became an Olympic sport in 1998. But the Americans struggled again on Thursday to turn chances into goals. Many of the meetings leading to Thursday’s game suggested as much. In the first period, Canada tied the United States for shots, with 11, a marked shift from their last meeting, when the Americans had 16 attempts in the first and the Canadians managed only five. Canada appeared to strike about seven minutes into Thursday’s game, when the American goaltender Alex Cavallini deflected a puck and saw Spooner sweep it in with a powerful shot. “I was offside.”
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“It’s great to know that this team has gone through a lot and we’re able to pull out a win.” “We knew that we were counted on to probably score earlier and get one or two for our team.” Alex Carpenter had two chances five minutes in, only to have her one-timer from the left circle hit the crossbar, and then getting stopped by Desbiens on a partial breakaway. “She showed up in those big moments,” Poulin said of Desbiens, who quit hockey after 2018 before being coaxed into rejoining the team. On Thursday, Poulin staked the Canadians to a 2-0 lead with 4:34 left in the first period, and then made it 3-0 off an odd-man rush 9:08 into the second period. Amanda Kessel scored with 13 seconds remaining during a mad scramble in front for a power-play goal and with the U.S. net empty for an extra attacker. And yet, Poulin had her anxious moments before she could celebrate. I don’t know what’s happening,” Poulin said of her knack for clutch goals. We were like, ‘Let’s be bold, let’s be brave, let’s go out and see what we can do.’” The win at Beijing comes nearly six months after Poulin’s overtime goal sealed Canada’s 3-2 victory over the U.S. at worlds, which ended the Americans’ run of winning five consecutive tournament titles. Nurse set the single Olympic tournament record with 18 points. “That 2018 was very hard, very, very hard.
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His viral load was so high that he remained in isolation through group play and returned to the bench for the quarterfinals against the Czech Republic. The U.S. opted not to bring a "taxi squad" with it in the event of injury. That was Pothier's first game behind the bench, too. She, too, tested positive for COVID-19 and could not make the trip, leaving the U.S. shorthanded for the rest of the tournament. Assistant coach Brian Pothier, due to a family medical emergency, did not travel with the team. If the U.S. couldn't play other countries, at least it would be able to play Canada several times. The pandemic presented challenges to that plan. They boarded a charter flight from Minnesota to Los Angeles for Team USA processing and landed in Beijing on Jan. 28. But the options back in the States were told to remain on alert if needed. The Canadians throttled the Americans in group play 5-1. While the Olympics takes place every four years, the International Ice Hockey Federation's women's championship is the annual tournament held to crown a world champion. For the fourth straight Olympic cycle, they have followed that plan.