Canada edges U.S. with OT goal for women’s world hockey title

CALGARY, Alberta — Marie-Philip Poulin scored successful overtime and Canada bushed the five-time defending champion United States, 3-2, connected Tuesday nighttime for its archetypal golden medal astatine the women’s hockey satellite title since 2012.

Poulin, the Canadian captain, skated down the near side, took a walk from Brianne Jenner and sent it disconnected the crossbar and station earlier going in. The extremity was initially waived disconnected and play continued successful the abrupt decease 3-on-3 overtime until the buzzer sounded aft a video review.

The Canadians rushed the crystal and piled connected apical of each different successful solemnisation of their 11th rubric astatine worlds.

“It’s truthful weird however it happened,” Canadian guardant Sarah Fillier said. “We were each sitting connected the bench, reasoning we person to spell decorativeness this adjacent 11 minutes off. But the buzzer went and we each jumped on. It’s truthful crazy, but it’s truthful cool.”

Canada fell down 2-0 successful the archetypal play – for conscionable its 2nd shortage successful the tournament. But the Canadians scored 2 goals, 2:29 apart, successful the 2nd to necktie it.

Jenner scored connected a powerfulness play erstwhile she corralled the puck successful beforehand of the nett and brought it from backhand to forehand to get astir the near pad of Nicole Hensley.

Jamie Lee Rattray tied it by redirecting Jocelyne Larocque’s changeable from the point. Rattray astir won it with 90 seconds to spell successful regularisation but her breakaway changeable went disconnected Hensley and deflected disconnected the post.

“I deliberation our squad stuck with it from the commencement ‘til the end. We showed a batch of character,” Canadian guardant Melodie Daoust said. “Just to beryllium capable to observe from here, connected location ungraded with our household and friends, I deliberation it’s amazing.”

Five of the past 7 satellite finals betwixt Canada and the U.S. person gone to other time, including 2011, ’12, ’16, and ’17.

“That’s wherefore it’s the top rivalry successful sports,” U.S. guardant Amanda Kessel said.

Alex Carpenter opened the scoring for the United States for a 3rd consecutive game. She batted her ain rebound betwixt the legs of goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens.

Carpenter scored her 5th extremity of the tournament, each successful the past 3 games, connected a powerfulness play conscionable 12:35 into the game.

The U.S had won 8 of the erstwhile 9 titles, including 2019 erstwhile Canada didn’t scope the last for the archetypal clip successful the past of the tourney that began successful 1990.

In the third-place game, Petra Nieminen scored her sixth extremity of the lawsuit and Finland bushed Switzerland, 3-1.

Finland claimed its 13th bronze medal astatine the event. Switzerland was going for its 2nd bronze – the archetypal coming successful 2012 against the Finns.

Tanja Niskanen needed conscionable 99 seconds to enactment Finland connected the board. Niskanen was near unmarked and skated to an unfastened precocious to nonstop it implicit the mitt of Saskia Maurer for her archetypal extremity of the tournament. Finland started the 2nd play successful a akin manner arsenic Ella Viitasuo scored 54 seconds successful connected a changeable disconnected the station for a 2-0 advantage.

Nieminen gave Finland a 3-1 lead, 3 seconds into a powerfulness play precocious successful the 2nd period, by redirecting Michelle Karvinen’s changeable from the point.

Lara Stalder pulled Switzerland wrong 2-1 3 minutes later, finishing a 2-on-2 accidental aft a cardinal prevention by goalie Saskia Maurer astatine the different end.