Canada reclaimed the ladies’s world hockey championship with a measure of revenge.
After dropping final 12 months’s gold-medal recreation to the USA on residence ice in Brampton, Ont., the Canadians turned the tables with Sunday’s 6-5 additional time victory over the U.S. in Utica, N.Y.
“Oh man, that feels good to win it on U.S. soil,” Canadian goaltender Ann-Renee Desbiens stated. “We owed it to them and owed it to ourselves to win that one.”
Danielle Serdachny scored the golden aim at 5:16 of additional time on a Canadian energy play. The U.S. was caught with too many gamers on the ice in OT of a see-saw battle between ladies’s hockey heavyweights.
Serdachny scored Canada’s second power-play aim of the complete match with two seconds left in that penalty.
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Danielle Serdachny scored a power-play aim in additional time as Canada reclaimed the ladies’s world hockey championship from the USA with a 6-5 victory.
The 22-year-old from Edmonton backhanded a rebound off an Erin Ambrose shot by the pad of U.S. goalie Aerin Frankel.
“I am nonetheless a bit in shock,” Serdachny stated. “I simply tried to take the goalie’s eyes away there and the rebound form of popped proper to me, so little bit of a fortunate one I might say however simply tried to get every little thing into it.
“When it was behind the online, I could not consider it nonetheless.”
Canada’s captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored her first two objectives of the match. She tied the sport within the second interval and gave her group a short 5-4 lead within the third.
As Canadian head coach Troy Ryan steadily elevated his captain’s minutes within the match, Poulin was a feisty, bodily pressure getting underneath opposing gamers’ skins earlier than getting on the scoresheet Sunday.
“Pou will all the time discover a solution to be a distinction maker,” Ryan stated. “The tip of the preliminaries and within the semifinal, she impacted with somewhat little bit of greasy play with physicality and simply discovering methods to impression the sport.
“Tonight was only a entire different stage. I may see in her eyes each time we known as her title that she was able to go. There’s only a few athletes on this planet that may carry out in a stress state of affairs like she will be able to.”
Ambrose, Emily Clark and Julia Gosling additionally scored for Canada.
Desbiens had 19 saves in a high-scoring recreation that contrasted starkly with Canada’s 1-0 loss in additional time to the U.S. in a Group A recreation earlier within the match.
Nobody Canadian participant dominated the group’s offence with 17 completely different ladies scoring no less than one aim.
Renata Quick was chosen the match’s prime defender by the IIHF and was additionally named to the all-star group on defence.
Solely Canada’s 7-5 win over the U.S. in 2015 was the next scoring closing among the many 22 video games the 2 international locations have performed.
The archrivals required additional time or a shootout to resolve a gold medal for an eighth time in match historical past.
Caroline Harvey, Hilary Knight, Megan Keller, Alex Carpenter and match MVP Laila Edwards scored for the U.S. Frankel stopped 24 photographs within the loss.
‘Extraordinarily expert recreation’
“Three on three [overtime]Â is an especially expert recreation. It opens up the ice quite a bit for various errors and sadly we made a mistake within the incorrect time,” Knight stated.
“I do know we had two seconds on the clock with the kill and hats off to our penalty killers who’ve been completely excellent all match. It actually stings not to have the ability to recover from the hump for this one.”
Canada and the U.S. carried a mixed 30 PWHL gamers on its rosters in Utica with the remainder hailing from the NCAA.
Whereas the hole between the North People and the remainder of the sphere did not shut a lot in Utica, the tempo and velocity of video games between Canada and the U.S. kicked into the next gear with extra gamers in midseason kind.
Gamers on either side stated their preliminary-round recreation was the quickest and hardest recreation of their lives, and that high-octane hockey continued Sunday with a gold medal on the road in entrance of a pro-U. S. sellout crowd of 4,142 on the Adirondack Financial institution Heart.
“The longer you stick round, the rivalry simply continues to develop,” stated U.S. defender Megan Keller. “It is enjoyable to be part of. A bit of extra enjoyable whenever you’re on the profitable aspect.”
Finland edged the Czech Republic 3-2 in a shootout for the bronze medal. The 2025 ladies’s world championship shall be held in Ceske Budejovice, the Czech Republic.
Canada roster
Forwards:Â Emily Clark, Saskatoon, Ottawa (PWHL); Sarah Fillier, Georgetown, Ont., Princeton (NCAA); Julia Gosling, London, Ont., St. Lawrence (NCAA); Brianne Jenner, Oakville, Ont., Ottawa (PWHL); Emma Maltais, Burlington, Ont., Toronto (PWHL); Sarah Nurse, Hamilton, Toronto (PWHL); Kristin O’Neill, Oakville, Montreal (PWHL); Marie-Philip Poulin, Beauceville, Que., Montreal (PWHL); Jamie Lee Rattray, Ottawa, Boston (PWHL); Danielle Serdachny, Edmonton, Colgate (NCAA); Natalie Spooner, Toronto, PWHPA; Laura Stacey, Kleinburg, Ont., Montreal (PWHL); Blayre Turnbull, Stellarton, N.S., Toronto (PWHL)
Defenders:Â Erin Ambrose, Keswick, Ont., Montreal (PWHL); Ashton Bell, Deloraine, Man., Ottawa (PWHL); Jaime Bourbonnais, Mississauga, Ont., New York (PWHL); Renata Quick, Burlington, Ont., Toronto (PWHL); Nicole Gosling, London, Ont., Clarkson (NCAA); Jocelyne Larocque, Ste. Anne, Man., Toronto (PWHL); Ella Shelton, Ingersoll, Ont., New York (PWHL)
Goaltenders:Â Kristen Campbell, Brandon, Man., Toronto (PWHL); Ann-Renee Desbiens, Clermont, Que., Montreal (PWHL); Emerance Maschmeyer, Bruderheim, Alta., Ottawa (PWHL); Corinne Schroeder, Elm Creek, Man., New York (PWHL)
