USA women's hockey team brings Olympic gold back home in OT thriller over Canada

The women's hockey golden medal is coming backmost to the United States.

The Americans came backmost from a precocious shortage to triumph a 2-1 thriller successful overtime implicit their archnemesis successful Canada.

The Americans started the 2nd play connected a powerfulness play from a punishment astatine the extremity of the first, but it was Canada who scored shorthanded for the archetypal extremity of the game. It was the archetypal extremity the Americans allowed successful the knockout stage, ending a agelong of 3 hours, 52 minutes and 7 seconds of shutout hockey.

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Megan Keller of Team United States celebrates with teammates aft scoring the game-winning extremity to triumph the golden medals successful the overtime during the Women's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected time 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The Canadians got connected the powerfulness play precocious successful the 3rd portion inactive keeping the Americans scoreless, but the U.S. was capable to termination it disconnected with conscionable implicit 4 minutes to go. With the puck successful Canada's portion and astir 2:30 to go, the Americans pulled their goalie, and the hazard proved worthy, arsenic skipper Hilary Knight deflected a wrister from the apical of the portion to necktie the crippled and yet unit overtime. After regulation, shots were 29-28 successful favour of Canada.

Four minutes and 7 seconds into the overtime period, Megan Keller pulled disconnected a nifty determination and squeaked the puck past the Canadian goaltender to sphere the gold. It’s the Americans’ archetypal golden medal since 2018.

Team Canada mislaid 2 games passim the Olympics, some to the United States, who went undefeated.

Hilary Knight, #21 of Team United States, celebrates with teammates aft scoring a extremity successful the 3rd play during the Women's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected time 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026, successful Milan, Italy.  (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

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Seven of the 8 gold-medal games successful Olympic past person been betwixt Canada and the U.S., with the Americans winning 3 of those.

Canada and the United States person besides met successful the gold-medal crippled astatine 23 of 24 IIHF Women’s World Championships and 21 of 23 4 Nations Cups since planetary play started successful 1987. Excluding the pandemic, the past clip the 2 countries did not look disconnected successful a gold-medal crippled successful immoderate planetary tourney was 2019, and earlier that, 1993. 

Canada settled for bronze successful the 2019 World Championship, portion the U.S. defeated Finland. It remains the lone twelvemonth Canada did not decorativeness with golden oregon silver, portion the U.S. streak of playing for golden is inactive intact.

Megan Keller (5) of Team United States celebrates with teammates aft scoring the game-winning extremity to triumph the golden medal successful overtime during the women’s golden medal lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected Day 13 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milan Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena successful Milan, Italy, connected Feb. 19, 2026. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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Canada, though, has lone earned golden oregon metallic successful the Olympics, portion the Americans had to settee for bronze successful 2006.

Knight's extremity made her America's all-time starring goalscorer and points leader. She precocious got engaged to speedskater Brittany Bowe.

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