Crew Canada gamers pose with their gold medals after defeating the US, 3-2, within the girls’s hockey gold medal recreation on the Winter Olympics on Thursday (Wednesday evening) in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States poses after receiving their silver medals after being defeated by Canada in girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada’s Jamie Lee Rattray (47) reacts after defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States’ Lee Stecklein and United States’ Caroline Harvey, proper, embrace after dropping to Canada within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States reacts after dropping to Canada within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada’s Jill Saulnier (11) and Blayre Turnbull (40) have a good time after Canada beat the US to win the ladies’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
United States react after dropping to Canada within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada celebrates defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
US gamers huddle earlier than the beginning of the ladies’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s gamers huddle earlier than the beginning of the ladies’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Gamers combat for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Emma Maltais (R) fights for the puck wiht USA’s Hilary Knight throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Renata Quick controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hilary Knight (C) controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hayley Scamurra (L) and Canada’s Emma Maltais combat for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens defends her publish throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s supporters show a banner earlier than the ladies’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Sarah Nurse (20) celebrates a aim previous United States goalkeeper Alex Cavallini throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada’s Sarah Nurse (20) celebrates a aim throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation United States on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada’s Sarah Nurse (20) celebrates a aim with teammates throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation United States on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin collides United States’ Lee Stecklein throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) makes a save in entrance of United States’ Hilary Knight (21) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) slides into Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. At left is Canada’s Sarah Nurse (20). (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) slides into Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. At left is Canada’s Sarah Nurse (20). (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada’s Micah Zandee-Hart (28) and United States’ Abby Roque (11) go for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Kendall Coyne Schofield (26) controls the puck as Canada’s Claire Thompson (42) falls throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States goalkeeper Alex Cavallini (33) lets a aim by Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin go by her throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin (29) celebrates with Micah Zandee-Hart, left, after Poulin scored towards the US throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Canada celebrates a aim by Marie-Philip Poulin (29) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation towards the US on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
TOPSHOT – USA’s Kendall Coyne Schofield (R) and Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin (2L) combat for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Picture by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
United States goalkeeper Alex Cavallini (33) kneels on the ice as Canada gamers have a good time after a aim by Marie-Philip Poulin throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin (29) celebrates a aim with teammates throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation as United States’ Megan Keller (5) skates by on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) makes a protected towards United States’ Hannah Brandt (20) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States goalkeeper Alex Cavallini (33) and United States’ Kelly Pannek (12) go for the puck in entrance of Canada’s Melodie Daoust (15) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States goalkeeper Alex Cavallini and United States’ Kelly Pannek (12) go for the puck towards Canada’s Melodie Daoust (15) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Lee Stecklein (2) and Canada’s Brianne Jenner (19) battle for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Kelly Pannek (12) tries to get away from Canada’s Sarah Fillier (10) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
USA’s Alexandra Carpenter (L) and Canada’s Sarah Nurse compete for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s goaltender Alexandria Cavallini watches the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hannah Brandt controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Blayre Turnbull (L) and USA’s Jessica Compher combat for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hilary Knight (R) skates with the puck forward of Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hilary Knight (L) scores a gaol throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hilary Knight (L) shoots to attain a aim throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Picture by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) scores previous Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) scores previous Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) scores a aim towards Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) celebrates a aim previous Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States’ Hilary Knight, proper, celebrates a aim with teammates United States’ Lee Stecklein, left, and United States’ Hannah Brandt throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation towards Canada on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
USA’s Hilary Knight (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring a aim throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s goaltender Alexandria Cavallini secures the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Lee Stecklein (R) and Canada’s Natalie Spooner combat for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Picture by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Jamie Lee Rattray controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
TOPSHOT – Canada’s Jamie Lee Rattray (R) and USA’s Savannah Harmon compete for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Abby Roque (L) and Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin combat for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Picture by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Grace Zumwinkle (R) and Canada’s Sarah Fillier compete for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Hilary Knight (2R) assaults throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s Jamie Lee Rattray controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
(L-R) USA’s Hayley Scamurra, Canada’s Melodie Daoust and USA’s Megan Keller compete for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Abby Roque (R) assaults at Canada’s goalpost throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada’s goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens (R) defends her publish throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Jessica Compher controls the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Cayla Barnes passes the puck previous Canada’s Natalie Spooner throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s Abby Roque hits the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
United States’ Lee Stecklein (2) and Canada’s Natalie Spooner (24) battle for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Amanda Kessel (28) controls the puck in entrance of Canada’s Jocelyne Larocque (3) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Cayla Barnes (3) and Canada’s Sarah Nurse (20) fall on the ice throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States’ Cayla Barnes (3) tries to get the puck from Canada’s Blayre Turnbull (40) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada’s Sarah Nurse, proper, is pressured by United States’ Cayla Barnes throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States’ Dani Cameranesi (24) controls the puck in entrance of Canada’s Renata Quick (14) throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
USA’s Savannah Harmon (L) and Canada’s Melodie Daoust compete for the puck throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s gamers have a good time after scoring a aim throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Canada goalkeeper Ann-Renee Desbiens (35) celebrates as Canada defeats the US to win the ladies’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
TOPSHOT – Canada’s gamers have a good time their victory throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Crew Canada gamers have a good time their 3-2 victory over Crew USA within the girls’s hockey gold-medal recreation on the Winter Olympics on Thursday (Wednesday evening PT) in Beijing. (Picture by Bruce Bennett/Getty Pictures)
Canada celebrates defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada gamers have a good time after beating the US to win the ladies’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Canada reacts after beating United States throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
US gamers react on the finish of the ladies’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP) (Picture by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
USA’s goaltender Alexandria Cavallini appears on throughout the girls’s gold medal match of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games ice hockey competitors between Canada and USA, on the Wukesong Sports activities Centre in Beijing on February 17, 2022. (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Picture by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Followers for Crew Canada cheer throughout the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation between Canada and the US on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Canada reacts after defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
United States reacts after dropping to Canada within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
Canada’s Jamie Lee Rattray celebrates with a Canadian flag after defeating the US the ladies’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada gamers are launched earlier than receiving their gold medals after defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Canada poses with their gold medals after defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
United States poses with their silver medals after dropping to Canada within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
Canada gamers sing their nationwide anthem as they obtain their gold medals after defeating the US within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
United States’ Kelly Pannek, left, and United States’ Savannah Harmon assist United States’ Brianna Decker, heart, on the ice after dropping to Canada within the girls’s gold medal hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Petr David Josek)
By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Author
BEIJING — Marie-Philip Poulin reminded everybody of her Captain Clutch popularity. And Canada regained its place atop the ladies’s hockey world.
It was solely becoming that Poulin delivered at a time her crew wanted it most by scoring twice, together with her third Olympic gold-medal clinching aim, in Canada’s 3-2 victory over the defending champion United States on the Beijing Video games on Thursday (Wednesday evening PT).
After successful gold in her first two Olympics, Poulin discovered to understand how important capturing her third was, coming 4 years after dropping it to the Individuals on the Pyeongchang Video games.
“I simply bought shivers,” she mentioned.
“That 2018 was very exhausting, very, very exhausting. And I believe if you take a while to replicate on what you might want to do higher as a crew and personally,” Poulin added. “We did that and I’m very comfortable that we’re resilient and we’re capable of put that again prior to now and win that gold at this time.”
Ann-Renee Desbiens stopped 38 pictures and Sarah Nurse had a aim and help in a recreation the place the Canadians constructed a 3-0 lead and held on for the win. Nurse set the only Olympic match document with 18 factors.
The Canadians completed 7-0 by showcasing a dynamic, deep and relentless offensive assault to seize their fifth Olympic title in seven tournaments, with 4 coming towards the Individuals in what has been one of many fiercest and longest-running rivalries in worldwide sports activities.
Canada can now boast holding each the Olympic and world championship titles on the similar time, and for the primary time since 2012. The win at Beijing comes almost six months after Poulin’s additional time aim sealed Canada’s 3-2 victory over the U.S. at worlds, which ended the Individuals’ run of successful 5 consecutive match titles.
“It was an extended haul of silvers and a number of soul-searching in this system,” mentioned Brianne Jenner, named the match MVP for tying a single Olympic document with 9 objectives. “I believe this group didn’t actually draw back from it. We have been like, ‘Let’s be daring, let’s be courageous, let’s exit and see what we will do.’”
Hilary Knight, the Individuals’ solely constant menace within the match, scored her team-leading sixth aim on a short-handed rush to chop the deficit to 3-1. Amanda Kessel scored with 13 seconds remaining throughout a mad scramble in entrance for a power-play aim and with the U.S. internet empty for an additional attacker.
“We are able to’t get down that many objectives. It’s actually powerful to bounce again,” Knight mentioned. “It’s devastating. It’s heartbreaking. … It looks like we let our nation down.”
Alex Cavallini stopped 18 pictures in her fourth match begin.
The Individuals, who've two Olympic golds, settled for his or her fourth silver medal, with all of the losses coming towards Canada.
Poulin gained her nickname by scoring decisive objectives in massive video games and particularly towards the Individuals. She scored each objectives in Canada’s 2-0 gold-medal win over the U.S. on the 2010 Vancouver Video games. 4 years later at Sochi, Poulin scored in additional time to seal the gold towards the Individuals once more.
On Thursday, Poulin staked the Canadians to a 2-0 lead with 4:34 left within the first interval, after which made it 3-0 off an odd-man rush 9:08 into the second interval. Nurse drove up the precise wing and fed Jenner, whose slapper was stopped by Cavallini. The rebound caromed to Poulin, who instantly fired a shot from the left of the web and banked it in off Cavallini’s skate.
“Woo, I don’t know. I don’t know what’s occurring,” Poulin mentioned of her knack for clutch objectives. “There’s some angel there or one thing.”
And but, Poulin had her anxious moments earlier than she might have a good time. She was within the penalty field for tripping when Kessel scored within the closing seconds – however solely after Desbiens stopped the primary 5 pictures she confronted throughout the energy play.
Becoming for Poulin was standing subsequent to Desbiens within the medal line and having the glory of draping the gold across the goalie’s neck.
“She confirmed up in these massive moments,” Poulin mentioned of Desbiens, who stop hockey after 2018 earlier than being coaxed into rejoining the crew. “She stored us within the recreation and to be trustworthy, having the ability to give (the medal) to her, it was very particular.”
No downside, Desbiens mentioned, noting she had an inkling the sport was over whereas glancing on the clock and seeing solely 13 seconds left after Kessel scored.
“I mentioned, ‘Oh, we bought this,’” Desbiens mentioned.
Although Knight’s aim offered the Individuals some life, they have been unable to money in on their probabilities within the third interval. Alex Carpenter had two probabilities 5 minutes in, solely to have her one-timer from the left circle hit the crossbar, after which getting stopped by Desbiens on a partial breakaway.
Kessel lamented how her aim got here far too late.
“We maintain ourselves to a excessive normal, and personally myself, I believe my line we needed to attain extra objectives,” she mentioned. “We knew that we have been counted on to in all probability rating earlier and get one or two for our crew.”
The U.S. didn’t have sufficient protection to comprise the Canadians’ aggressive forechecking assault, nor the offense to match them, particularly with out high heart Brianna Decker, who broke her left leg within the match opener.
The Individuals completed seventh out of 10 groups in scoring effectivity with simply 30 objectives on a tournament-leading 374 pictures.
It’s been an extended and bumpy street again for the Canadians, who have been compelled to reinvent themselves in three years beneath Coach Troy Ryan. The low level adopted Canada settling for bronze on the 2019 world championships, which marked the primary time in match historical past the nation failed to achieve the title recreation.
At Beijing, the Canadians out-classed the sector by outscoring opponents by a mixed margin of 57-10, together with a 4-2 win over the U.S. in group play final week.
“Simply having the ability to show ourselves once more and having the ability to combat adversity and are available again on high,” Rebecca Johnston mentioned. “It’s nice to know that this crew has gone by means of loads and we’re capable of pull out a win.”