Obviously, the game wasn't the result that we wanted, but playing in that game was so much fun and I think that's what I feel coming out of that game. That was the most fun I've had in a hockey game in a very long time. Coming back, there wasn't a lot of downtime. We've gotten right back into our season, and so we've played a couple games.
I thought it was sort of a distasteful joke, and unfortunately that is overshadowing a lot of the success, the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats. We're just focusing on celebrating the women in our room, the extraordinary efforts, and continue to celebrate three gold medals in program history as well as the double gold for both men's and women's teams.
Brad Marchand, Macklin Celebrini and Thomas Wilson of Canada celebrate with fans after winning the quarterfinal match in overtime. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Canada's flag-bearer Marielle Thompson is competing in women's ski cross this morning, with the final taking place at 7:10 a.m. ET. Canada's men's hockey team plays its semifinal game against Finland at 10:40 a.m. ET but could be without captain Sidney Crosby. Canada has two more shots at gold in short-track speed skating.
Screenshot The U.S. women's hockey team beat Canada in the gold medal game Thursday, thanks to an improbable game-tying goal to keep their hopes alive. The Americans faced Canada on Thursday night for the gold medal in Italy. Canada scored the game's first goal in the second period, and Team USA struggled to find the equalizer throughout the remainder of the game.
It has all come down to this at the 2026 Olympic Games for the two most dominant countries in international women's hockey. The United States and Canada face off on Thursday for the gold medal. Women's ice hockey was first introduced at the Olympics in 1998, and these are the only two countries to have won Olympic gold since.
Canada's medal count at the 2026 Winter Games stands at 11 after a gold for Megan Oldham in freeski big air and a silver for Courtney Sarault in speed skating. Oldham, 24, and Sarault, 25, are among the few Canadian Olympians to win multiple medals at these Games: they now share five medals between them. This morning, freeski aerials qualifications have been postponed to at least 6 a.m. ET due to weather. Canadian Marion Thenault is set to compete.
In their fifth and fourth Olympic appearances, respectively, Knight and Bowe return for their Olympic finales side by side hoping to put a golden flourish on their careers. Knight, 36, and Bowe, 37, have nine combined Olympic appearances and six Olympic medals. Bowe, who races in the women's 500 meters on Sunday, has Olympic bronze medals in the team pursuit and the 1,000 meters and holds the world record in her signature distance.
MILAN -- Canada women's hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin has been ruled out of her team's preliminary-round game against the U.S. at the Olympics on Tuesday night because of injury. Just about five hours before puck drop, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced Poulin would not play after leaving a win Monday night against Czechia with an undisclosed lower-body injury. Poulin is considered day-to-day.
For decades, the roads to the highest levels of hockey were only available to men. It wasn't until the 1990s that women competed in world championships or at the Olympics, but their events often received less viewership or interest than the men's events. Fast forward to August 2023. The Professional Women's Hockey League was introduced, creating the biggest stage for the highest level of women's hockey in North America. That being said, 2023 was far from long ago.
It's a rivalry as old as time itself. More like a 250 year rivalry? Longer? I don't know. Despite winning gold in women's hockey back in the 2018 Winter Olympics, the United States would once again find themselves in Canada's shadow by the end of the 2022 tournament. To make things even more intense, the United States has had the upper hand against Canada in recent years, dominating the recent four-game Rivalry Series with multi-goal wins in all four games.
Expansion teams are usually bad because they're contingent on being bad. For narrowing the other teams' slices of the revenue pie, they can join the league only at a high cost and at some competitive disadvantage. If they do fashion something workable from everyone's leftovers, a la the Valkyries or Golden Knights, good for them, but that success wouldn't be by design.
