USA tops Canada in OT thriller to win Olympic gold: Live updates
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Via: vic-eldred • 9 months ago • 4 commentsBy: Story by Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY
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MILAN — The U.S. women’s national hockey team is golden once again.
Team USA has appeared in all but one gold medal match since women’s hockey made its Olympic debut at the 1998 Nagano Games — each time facing off against the Canadians — but the Americans have only walked away with two gold medals. Make that three.
Team USA defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime at the 2026 Winter Olympics on Thursday, Feb. 19 to capture gold, marking the Americans’ first Olympic gold medal since the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, which the U.S. won in a shootout.
The Americans trailed much of the contest, before Hilary Knight scored an equalizer with less than three minutes remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime.
Megan Keller's sudden-death goal in overtime clinched the win.
The Americans shut out the Canadians 5-0 in the preliminary round on Feb. 10, but Thursday’s gold-medal match was a nail biter that seemed destined to end in a Canadian celebration until Knight's heroics.
The gold-medal victory caps off Knight’s prolific Olympic career with her second gold and fifth overall medal. Knight now holds the U.S. Olympic hockey record for the most overall medals and gold medals won. She also set the all-time points and goals record .
USA TODAY Sports is in Milan for the 2026 Winter Olympics and will provide live coverage of the gold medal match. Here's what you need to know:
Team USA receives their Olympic women's hockey gold medals
At a medal ceremony that also featured silver medalists Canada and bronze medalists Switzerland, Team USA received their gold medals on the ice at the Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan.
Watch: Megan Keller's game-winning overtime goal
Megan Keller broke several ankles of Canada's defense for a chip shot into the back of the net just over four minutes into overtime inside the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on Thursday, Feb. 19 to give the United States the 2-1 gold medal win at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.
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Btw: Megan Keller is from Boston.
USA! USA! USA!
good for them !
Watched them all their games. They dominated until the end. Great hockey up to that point. Worst they played was the gold medal match. They were lucky to win it.
Sad to watch the poor sportsmanship shown by some of the players. Kudos to the Swiss bronze medal winners. They all comported themselves with class. Others, not so much.
It was an exciting game and went right down to the wire (actually beyond the wire)
Now to wait for the mens game on Sunday, hopefully it's just as exciting