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North Hills Student Catches Puck During Team USA's Women's Hockey Olympic Gold Medal Game
Team USA ended a streak of Olympic final losses to Canada by winning 2-1 in overtime with Megan Keller scoring the decisive breakaway goal, finishing 7-0 in the tournament.
- On Thursday at the Milano‑Cortina Games, Team USA defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime, with Megan Keller scoring about four minutes into extra time to win the women's hockey gold.
- After Canada took a second-period lead with a shorthanded tally by Kristin O'Neill, Team USA pulled goalie Aerin Frankel late and Hilary Knight deflected a Laila Edwards shot with 2:04 left to tie.
- The U.S. defence and Frankel's goaltending kept the team in contention, with Frankel making 30 saves and ending with a.980 save percentage, the first goalie with three shutouts in Olympics.
- Hilary Knight's late goal also made her the U.S. program's all-time leading scorer, and the victory hands Team USA its third Olympic women's hockey gold since 2018.
- Against the backdrop of a long USA‑Canada finals rivalry, Boston Fleet standouts Megan Keller, Aerin Frankel and Haley Winn were central to Team USA's gold-medal run.
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Upset in Montreal as Canada’s women’s hockey team loses to U.S. in Olympic final
Hundreds of Team Canada fans gathered to watch the women’s ice hockey final at Le Nadia, a Montreal bar dedicated to broadcasting women’s sports. The disappointment after the U.S. clinched the gold medal in overtime was palpable.
The women's ice hockey tournament at the Milan Cortina Olympic Games was won by the United States team, which defeated Canada 2:1 in overtime in the final (0:0, 0:1, 1:0, 1:0).
Megan Keller’s ‘why not’ attitude helps etch her name into US Olympic lore
Megan Keller wouldn’t say she’s consistently practiced the jaw-dropping move she pulled off for the overtime golden goal of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics on Thursday night at Santagiulia Arena. After collecting a long pass from Taylor Heise, Keller poked the puck around Canadian defenseman Claire Thompson before backhanding it past goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens to secure a 2-1 OT victory and the Americans’ spot at the top of the podium.
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