The United States Women’s Hockey Team Played In The Gold Medal Match On Thursday (Feb 19)
The USA Women’s Hockey Team and Canada met up for the seventh time in the Olympic gold medal match at the 2026 Olympics. Team USA has won gold in 1998 and 2018, while our neighbors to the North have won the tournament in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2022.
The two teams met earlier in the tournament in the group stage, with the USA winning 5-0, making it the first time in Olympic history that Canada has been shut out.
Prior to the gold medal game, the USA had only conceded one goal. See their results leading up to this game below.
Group Stage
Czechia (Won 5-1)
Finland (Won 5-0)
Switzerland (Won 5-0)
Canada (Won 5-0)
Quarterfinals
Italy (Won 6-0)
Semifinals
Sweden (Won 5-0)
Who Won The Gold Medal Match?
The women’s hockey gold medal match kicked off on Thursday, February 19, at the Milano Santaguilia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan, Italy, which seats 16,000 people.
Not only was this game historic for both countries, but it was also historic for the USA’s Hilary Knight, who tied the record for the most games played in women’s Olympic ice hockey history. Knight will also retire for USA hockey after this game.
The game was scoreless after the first period, but Canada opened up the scoring in the first few minutes of the second period. After battling the rest of the period, the USA was unable to score. The United States began the third period still trailing, until 2:04 minutes left in the game when Knight scored the tying goal.
With this goal, she became the all-time leading scorer in USA women’s Olympic history with 15 goals.
With neither side able to score in the remaining two minutes, the game went to overtime, which is a sudden-death 3-on-3 period, so the first team to score will win.
With 15:53 left in overtime, American defenseman Megan Keller beat a Canadian defenseman and slipped it past the goalkeeper to win the Americans GOLD!!!!!
Team USA is the gold medalists once again. Check back for video and photos of them receiving their medals.