Last week the U.S. Women’s hockey team took on the Canadians women’s hockey team for the Gold. Canada entered last weeks matchup with 5 Gold Medals while the U.S. Women’s entered the game with two under their belts.
The U.S. Women’s team had beaten Canada seven times dating back to the World Championships. Neither team scored in the first period, however; Canada scored first with a goal just a minute into the second period.
U.S. didn’t tie things up until late in the third with a goal from team Captain Hillary Knight (making her the top goal scorer in Women’s Olympic history) with two minutes to play and an empty net, adding another pair of skates in the zone. The late goal sent the game into overtime with Canada leading shots on goal 29-28.
U.S. Women’s defensemen Megan Keller (of the Boston Fleet, PWHL) made an incredible move alone with two defenders on the left wing pulling the puck across the front of the defender and shooting it through the five-hole trickling into the net for the win and the gold with four minutes and seven seconds into overtime.
The Men’s game was just as exciting as the U.S. headed into the Gold game with Canada hoping to bring home their first gold since the 1980 U.S. Men’s Miracle on Ice Hockey team.
The U.S. scored first six minutes into the first period on a goal from Matt Boldy. Colorado Avalanche defensemen Cale Makar and Canada responded late in the second with a goal to tie the game (Canada led 24 shots on goal to U.S.’s 15 until Makar’s Goal).
The game went into overtime with Canada leading the shots on goal 41-26 in what many believed to be a dominating game by the Canadians but an even more impressive game by U.S. Men’s goalie, Connor Hellebuyck who was phenomenal in regulation.
On a chaotic series of passes with less than two minutes into overtime a pass made its way across ice to center, Jack Hughes who shot the puck to the weak side scoring the game winning goal, winning gold for the first time since 1980.
In other sports the Denver Nuggets are two for two in their last four games with losses to the L.A. Clippers and the Golden State Warriors and wins over the Portland Trail Blazers and the Memphis Grizzlies.
This week the Nuggets are at home to face the Celtics (game results not available at the time of this writing) before heading to Oklahoma to face the Thunder on Friday at 7:30 p.m. MST.
