{"id":478670,"date":"2026-02-19T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478670\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:23:11","slug":"united-states-rallies-late-tops-canada-in-ot-for-womens-olympic-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478670\/","title":{"rendered":"United States rallies late, tops Canada in OT for women\u2019s Olympic gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Keller scored on a backhand 4:07 into overtime, giving the United States a 2-1 victory against Canada in the gold medal game of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 women&#8217;s ice hockey tournament at Santagiulia Arena in Milan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The United States won its third Olympic gold medal and first since a 3-2 shootout victory against Canada at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. Canada won gold by defeating the U.S. 3-2 at the 2022 Beijing Games.<\/p>\n<p>Keller, playing in her third Olympics, took a pass above the Canada blue line during the 3-on-3 period, skated by a defender on the left side and cut to the net before scoring her third goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. captain Hilary Knight forced overtime by tying the game 1-1 with 2:04 remaining in the third period with goalie Aerin Frankel pulled for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Knight was standing in the slot when she deflected a shot from the point by Laila Edwards. It was Knight&#8217;s 15th career goal in her fifth Olympic Games. The 36-year-old has scored the most goals of any U.S. player (men or women).<\/p>\n<p>Knight has 33 points (15 goals, 18 assists) in 29 career Olympic games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Keller scored on a backhand 4:07 into overtime, giving the United States a 2-1 victory against Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-478670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}