USA Beats Canada

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson helped give the United States its first women's hockey Olympic gold medal since 1998 and bragging rights over archrival Canada for four years with the winning goal in a dramatic sudden-death shootout at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, after regulation and overtime ended in a 2-2 tie. The final shot occurred overnight, our time (Pyeongchang is fourteen hours ahead). Except for the 2006 Games, the United States and Canada have played for gold in every major tournament since the start of women's hockey in the Olympics in 1998. The United States has won three straight world titles and eight of the last 10 while Canada took home the gold in each of the last four Olympics.

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