Canada Beats Group USA, Earns Fifth Olympic Ladies’s Hockey Gold Medal

It was too little, too late for Group USA.

Canada defeated the U.S. 3-2 in Thursday’s gold medal recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics. The win provides Canada its fifth ladies’s hockey gold, whereas the U.S. will obtain its fourth silver.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored in every of the earlier three gold medal video games towards Group USA, together with gold-clinching targets in 2010 and 2014. With two targets on Thursday, she is as much as seven profession tallies in gold medal video games. She turned the primary hockey participant – males’s or ladies’s – to attain in 4 Olympic gold medal contests.

Sarah Nurse put Canada on the board lower than eight minutes into the sport.

Then, Captain Clutch took over.

Poulin netted her first purpose with lower than 5 minutes remaining within the opening body. 

She got here again halfway via the second interval and introduced the Canadian result in 3-0.

With an help on the play, Nurse set the file for many factors in an Olympic hockey event (18). 

The U.S. had overcome a three-goal deficit towards Canada within the Olympic gold medal recreation earlier than. After falling behind 4-1 within the third interval on the 1998 Nagano Video games, Group USA rattled off six unanswered targets to win the primary ever ladies’s hockey gold medal.

An identical comeback was not within the playing cards this time, although.

Hilary Knight, enjoying in her fourth gold medal recreation, put Group USA on the board with a short-handed purpose late within the second interval, however it was the staff’s solely rating of the night time.

Group USA pulled goaltender Alex Cavallini with over three minutes left within the recreation and received a six-on-four likelihood over the ultimate 1:25. Amanda Kessel made it a one-goal recreation with 12.5 seconds left, however the People didn’t have sufficient time to aim an equalizer.

Kessel, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Brianna Decker – who was injured in Group USA’s first recreation of the event – and Lee Stecklein all earned their third Olympic medals. 9 Group USA gamers returned from Group’s USA’s 2018 PyeongChang Olympics roster, whereas eight gamers made their Olympic debuts in Beijing.

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