USA women's hockey team wins gold over Canada
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Keller, from North Farmington, set up the game-tying goal and scored the game-winner in overtime for USA's 2-1 win over Canada in the women's hockey gold-medal game.
U.S. hockey star Hilary Knight became the all-time leading scorer in U.S. women's hockey history at the Olympics in the most dramatic way possible when she scored her 15th career goal late in the gold-medal game of the Milan Cortina Olympics.
After playing at Clarkson University in New York, Haley Winn was the second overall pick in last year’s Professional Women’s Hockey League draft and currently plays for the Boston Fleet. Milan Cortina marks her Olympic debut, and she scored one goal and had three assists over the six games leading up to Thursday.
Alina Muller scored the game-winning goal when Switzerland won their first women's ice hockey Olympic bronze medal in 2014, and 12 years later the now 27-year-old did it again against Sweden in even more dramatic fashion on Thursday with a shootout beckoning.
The semifinals in women’s hockey takes place on Monday. The United States face Sweden and Canada face Switzerland. The two North American countries are heavy favourites. However, history is actually on Sweden’s side.