Canadian women strike Olympic hockey gold
Posted Feb 20, 2014 07:15:14 PM.
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The Canadian Press
SOCHI, Russia – Canada has won its fourth straight Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey and it happened in dramatic fashion.
Marie-Philip Poulin scored in overtime to beat the Americans 3-2 in a thrilling championship final. Poulin also scored with 55 seconds left in the third period to send the game to overtime. Brianne Jenner scored Canada’s first goal at 16:34 of the third.
U.S. captain Meghan Duggan scored in the second period and Alex Carpenter added a power-play goal in the third at the Bolshoy Ice Dome.
Shannon Szabados made 27 saves in the Canadian net while Jessie Vetter stopped 28 shots for the U.S.