Canada reclaimed the ladies’s world hockey championship from the US with a 6-5 additional time win in Sunday’s closing.
Danielle Serdachny scored a power-play objective at 5:16 of additional time to finish the showdown.
The Canadians earned some revenge in Utica, N.Y., for final yr’s 6-3 loss within the gold-medal recreation to the U.S. on residence ice in Brampton, Ont.
Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored her first two objectives of the match. Emily Clark, Erin Ambrose and Julia Gosling additionally scored within the win.
Canadian goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens made 19 saves.
Caroline Harvey, Hilary Knight, Laila Edwards, Megan Keller and Alex Carpenter scored for the U.S. Aerin Frankel stopped 25 pictures.
Poulin missed the web on a breakaway and Sarah Fillier additionally missed an opportunity early in additional time.
The U.S. took a bench minor for too many gamers at 3:17. Serdachny scored Canada’s second power-play objective of the match with three seconds remaining within the American penalty. She flicked a backhand shot by Frankel off a rebound of an Ambrose shot for the winner.
The hosts beat Canada 1-0 in additional time in a Group A recreation earlier within the match.
The U.S. outshot the guests 11-3 in Sunday’s second interval, however they have been deadlocked 3-3 heading into the third.
They have been additionally tied 5-5 with 5 minutes remaining. Solely Canada’s 7-5 win over the U.S. in 2012 was a better scoring closing among the many 22 video games the 2 nations have performed.
The archrivals wanted additional time or a shootout to determine a gold medal for an eighth time in match historical past.
Poulin was penalized for an unlawful hit on U.S. ahead Britta Curl at 7:14 of the third. Knight backhanded Caroline Harvey’s shot off the backboards below Desbiens’ pad for a power-play objective and a 4-3 lead at 8:56.
However Canada pulled even when Clark’s shot from behind the objective line deflected off Harvey and into the U.S. web at 10:46.
Poulin scored her second of the sport at 12:19 for a 5-4 lead. On the aspect the web, she dug on the puck and shovelled it over Frankel’s pad.
The 33-year-old missed PWHL Montreal’s final three video games heading into the worldwide break and likewise sat out Canada’s pre-tournament win over Finland with an undisclosed damage.
Harvey produced one other equalizer for the U.S. at 14:58 of the third in one other see-saw battle between the 2 sides for girls’s worldwide hockey supremacy.
Canada led 2-1 by 3:08 of the second when Gosling elected to shoot low between Frankel’s pads throughout an odd-man rush with Serdachny.
However the U.S. tied it at 10:10 scoring off the frenzy, and led by 16:32 on Carpenter’s sixth objective of the match.
Poulin notched her first of the match for a 3-3 tie at 18:58 with a wrist shot far aspect from the faceoff circle.
Kendall Coyne Schofield fed Carpenter within the slot from the behind the web for the latter to beat Desbiens stick aspect. Desbiens received a bit of Keller’s shot, however not sufficient to maintain it out of her web.
Canada outshot the U.S. 13-6 after a primary interval that ended 1-1.
Inside seconds of Canada’s Jocelyne Larocque whistled for tripping Taylor Heiser within the impartial zone, Edwards collected the puck alongside the boards and roofed it on Desbiens at 8:12.
Canada scored first at 6:32. With Poulin offering a display, Ambrose from the wall beside Canada’s bench lofted a shot that appeared to deflect off a physique and alter speeds on Frankel.
Finland edged Czechia 3-2 in a shootout for the bronze medal. The 2025 girls’s world championship might be held in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia.