Women's Hockey
UTICA, N.Y. — Team Canada won the IIHF women’s world championship with a thrilling 6-5 overtime win against Team USA on Sunday night.
Danielle Serdachny scored the game-winning goal less than six minutes into the first overtime period — on the power play — in a high-scoring, back-and-forth game against their cross-border rivals. Sunday night was the second-highest-scoring gold medal game ever at women’s worlds and the highest since the U.S. won 7-5 in 2015.
Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice, after coming into the game with only two assists in six games. Erin Ambrose, Julia Gosling and Emily Clark also scored for the Canadians. Ann-Renée Desbiens made 19 saves on 24 shots for the win.
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Team Canada knocks off Team USA, claims gold medal in IIHF Women’s World Championship overtime thriller
Listen I’m Canadian but you have to feel for Kirsten Simms in this moment. She’s playing in her first world championship, was the hero in the U.S. preliminary win again Canada in overtime and was the extra player on the ice that gave Canada the power play.
She’s an absolute star and will be back big time on this stage.
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If you didn’t know Serdachny's name before, get used to hearing it!
She is bound to be a high draft pick in the PWHL after wrapping up her NCAA career at Colgate.
This may have boosted her stock just a bit, too!
Marie-Philip Poulin just airmailed one on a breakaway.
Overtime continues.
Canada is heading to the power play. Troy Ryan just took a timeout.
Everyone needs to calm down.
The gold medal game is the only game that will have continuous overtimes, if needed.
The bronze medal game went to a shootout earlier.
A little consistency (and overall not a shootout when a medal is on the line) would be nice!
Who gets the winner today? Will Poulin complete the hat trick? She leads the way with seven shots on goal so far through regulation. The coaches are bound to shorten the bench here, so expect to see a lot of Poulin, along with trustworthy forwards like Fillier and Nurse in overtime.
On the USA side, Carpenter is always a safe bet. But let’s see what Heise and Edwards can generate here – the two have been an excellent scoring duo for USA.
A reminder of the rules here because they’ve changed over the years.
In the Gold Medal Game, 20-minute (3v3) sudden-death overtime periods will be played until the winning goal is scored. Between each period, there will be a 15-minute intermission during which the ice will be resurfaced.
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We're headed to overtime, which means one of these teams is going to win 6-5.
The only time we've seen more goals in a gold-medal game at the world championships was in 2015, when the U.S. beat Canada 7-5.
Kendall Coyne Schofield scored the final goal in that one.
Ella Shelton with the save of the game for Canada.
Cheryl Pounder on the TSN broadcast, speaking for a lot of us: "I have no words here, but I've got to find some."
What a puck retrieval by Lacey Eden to set up a huge, huge, HUGE goal by Caroline Harvey.
A 10-goal USA-CAN game, in this economy? Caroline Harvey ties the game here.
All the credit to Lacey Eden’s pass from behind the net to take away Desbiens eyes.
This is the most insane game I’ve ever been to. Caroline Harvey ties it 5-5 and I might pass out?
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After tying the game twice, Team Canada pulls back ahead. Captain Clutch nets her second of the game.
The U.S. may not want to allow the best player in the world to have three quality attempts like Poulin just did there!
Canada ties the score for the second time today, thanks to a goal from Emily Clark. Looks like it went off Harvey’s skate and into the net.
That’s Knight’s 65th (!) goal at Women’s Worlds.
It’s a timely one for the U.S., who would have lost some momentum had then gone 0-for-3 on the advantage today.
Hilary Knight coming up clutch in another gold medal game. Who could have seen this coming?
Marie-Philip Poulin is not happy with that foul call for an illegal hit. Looks like she collided hard with Britta Curl, who got the worst of it. Canada’s captain is going sit for two minutes.
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Poulin put the puck off the boards to herself in the neutral zone, held it for what felt like five minutes, then scored a huge, timely goal on a ridiculous shot. Standard behavior.
We'll see if the U.S. can punch back on this power play. Great drawn call from Caroline Harvey.
What a shot from Marie-Philip Poulin.
It was only a matter of time before she scored.
Somehow, that’s her first of the tournament since Canada’s first of the game did not go off her.
That's a classic "goal scorer's goal" from Alex Carpenter there, which is no surprise, but it came on a really nice feed from Kendall Coyne Schofield, as well.
Great vision. Seemed like she knew Carpenter was in that spot the whole time.