Canada five-time Olympic women’s ice hockey champion!

Unlike PyeongChang 2018, where the Americans won, this time it was the Canadians who took the top step of the podium. A 3-2 victory, with a focus on captain Marie-Philip Poulin (CAN), in her fourth consecutive Olympic final, scoring two of her country’s three goals.

For the sixth time in seven editions, the neighboring United States and Canada hosted the Olympic women’s ice hockey Grand Final in Beijing 2022. Up to the final, both teams have completed the following campaigns:

• Canada: 12×1 Switzerland, 11×1 Finland, 6×1 ROC, 4×2 United States; 11 x 0 Sweden; 10 x 3 Switzerland.
• United States: 5×2 Finland, 5×0 ROC, 8×0 Switzerland, 2×4 Canada; 4×1 Czech Republic; 4×1 Finland.

Canada, a major global force in sport, is the current women’s world champion and is now also an Olympic champion. He was looking to reclaim that top spot, as recent years have seen the United States grow, such as in the 2019 World Cup, in which the Canadians were left behind, won by the Americans 2-1 over the Finns .

There’s nothing more symbolic than the fact that one of sport’s greatest rivalries is represented in a Games final, and that Olympics.com provides a summary of it.

Victory for Canada and fifth championship

Worthy of a grand final, the match was quite busy. After being disallowed a goal at 7:15, Sarah Nurse (CAN) opened the scoring at 7:50. Captain Marie-Philip Poulin (CAN) added in the 15th minute, becoming the only athlete to score in four Olympic decisions. End of the first period, score in favor of Canada by two to zero.

In the second period, the game was more balanced, with the teams depending on the mistakes of the opposition. So that was it. In a recovered drive in the defensive half, Canada had a numerical superiority attack and once again Marie-Philip Poulin took the opportunity to extend the score with nearly thirty minutes of play: three to zero for the Canadians. With the unfavorable score, the United States had to go up, they started to have more control over the disc and the number of submissions. At 36min39s, Hilary Knight (USA) finished with the puck, herself taking advantage of the rebound and closing the gap. Three to one and end of the second period.

electrifying ending

In the third and final third, both teams created few chances. The score seemed to be on the way, but foul play left Canada with one less in the rink. With that, the United States pressed and, with 13 seconds left, Amanda Kessel (USA) reduced the lead to just one point, three to two.

With no time for a draw, let alone a comeback, the score remained at three-to-two and, with that, the Canadians became five-time Olympic champions in the women’s ice hockey tournament.

“It means the world. It means the world to me. Honestly, leading this group with so many changes in recent years, with rookies, a joint effort by everyone and this title shows that it has paid off,” said Marie-Philip Poulin, captain of the Canadian team. .

“I have no words right now. It was the longest ice hockey game I have ever played. I had in my mind that we were going to win and it’s a dream come true,” commented Sarah Nurse (CAN), author of one of the goals. When asked what it would be like to see the gold hanging around her neck, she added: “A relief. Winning the gold at 27, having been the silver, is like taking off a weight off your shoulders.”

data sheet

Canada 3 (2-0, 1-1, 0-1): Ann-Renée Desbiens; Emerance Maschmeyer; Jocelyne Larocque, Renata Fast, Brianne Jenner, Sarah Nurse, Marie-Philip Poulin (C); Erin Ambrose, Claire Thompson, Sarah Fillier, Natalie Spooner, Jamie Lee Rattray; Ashton Bell, Micah Zandee-Hart, Rebecca Johnston, Emily Clark, Blaire Turnbull; Ella Shelton, Laura Stacey, Jill Saulnier and Emma Maltais. Coach: Troy Ryan.

USA 2 (0-2, 1-1, 1-0): Alex Cavallini, Maddie Rooney; Lee Stecklein, Cayla Barnes, Hannah Brandt, Hilary Knight, Kendall Coyne Schofeld (C); Megan Keller, Savannah Harmon, Abby Roque, Alex Carpenter, Amanda Kessel; Megan Bozek, Jincy Dunne, Kelly Pannek, Grance Zumwinkle, Dani Cameranesi; Caroline Harvey, Hayley Scamurra, Jesse Cimpher, Abbey Murphy. Coach: Joel Johnson.

Arbitration: Kelly Cooke (USA), Anna Wiegand (SUI), Anna Hammar (SWE) and Kendall Hanley (USA).

Here is the women’s ice hockey podium at Beijing 2022:

• Gold: Canada 5 Olympic achievements
• Silver: United States 2 Olympic achievements
• Bronze: Finland

Beijing 2022 Ice Hockey

O ice Hockey continue us Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics with the realization of first men’s tournament semi-finals this Friday, February 18 from 12:10 p.m. Beijing time (1:10 a.m. Brasilia time):

The other semi-final will also take place on Friday (21:10 Beijing time/10:10 GMT):

You can follow the emotions of ice hockey at Beijing 2022 with broadcasts from the Olympics.com and Globo/Sportv channels for the Brazilian territory.

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