Canada won its historic fourth Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey Thursday with a 3-2 overtime win over the United States in a thrilling championship final.
The only other women’s team to win more consecutive Olympic gold is the U.S. in women’s basketball with five in a row from 1996 to 2012.
Marie-Philip Poulin scored the winner on a power play at 8:10 of overtime for her second of the game.
She had tied it up with 55 seconds remaining in regulation.
Poulin was a heroine of Canada’s gold in Vancouver four years ago. She scored twice in a 2-0 win over the Americans.
Trailing 1-0 after two periods and down two goals deep into the third, Canada scored twice in the final 3:26 of the regulation and suddenly the gold that had been slipping away was within reach again.
Canada’s Brianne Jenner halved the deficit at 16:34 of the third with a shot that deflected off of U.S. defender Kacey Bellamy’s knee and over goalie Jesse Vetter.
With Shannon Szabados pulled from Canada’s net for an extra attacker, forward Kelli Stack’s attempted empty-netter that would have sealed the gold for the Americans hit the post.
