The Canadian males’s hockey workforce couldn’t preserve its best-on-best dominance over the USA, falling 2-1 in time beyond regulation in Sunday’s gold-medal sport on the Milan-Cortina Video games.
New Jersey Devils ahead Jack Hughes scored 1:41 into time beyond regulation, left alone within the slot throughout 3-on-3 play as Canada scrambled after surrendering an odd-man break seconds earlier.
The Individuals final gained gold in 1980, when the “Miracle on Ice” workforce triumphed at Lake Placid, N.Y. Sunday’s win got here 46 years to the day after the U.S. upset the five-time Olympic champion Soviet Union 4-3 in that semifinal.
U.S. ahead Matt Boldy opened the sport’s scoring within the first interval, Canadian defenceman Cale Makar tied issues up 1-1 with 1:44 remaining within the second, and Hughes in the end scored the winner in three-on-three time beyond regulation.
U.S. goaltender Connor Hellebuyck stood tall for his workforce all through the competition, recording 41 saves on 42 pictures towards.
The silver medal is Canada’s sixth in Olympic historical past.
Finland claimed the bronze on Saturday with a 6-1 victory over Slovakia.
The lads’s outcome mirrored the U.S. girls, who additionally defeated Canada 2-1 in time beyond regulation to win gold on Thursday.
Canada played the final without captain Sidney Crosby, sidelined by a lower-body damage sustained when his proper leg bent awkwardly within the quarterfinal win over Czechia.
He additionally missed the 3-2 semifinal victory over Finland on Friday.
Connor McDavid, who served as captain for the second straight sport, was named event MVP.
McDavid led the event in scoring with two objectives and 11 assists. His 13 factors set the file for many factors of any participant in a single Olympic event with NHL participation. He was additionally picked because the event’s greatest ahead.
Voting for MVP was carried out on the first intermission of the gold-medal sport, per insider Frank Seravalli.
The Edmonton Oilers captain was additionally named to the event all-star workforce, together with Canadian teammates Cale Makar and Macklin Celebrini.
Celebrini, simply 19 years outdated, led the event with 5 objectives, whereas Makar scored Canada’s lone objective within the gold-medal sport.
Hellebuyck was the goaltender to make the all-star workforce, whereas American defenceman Quinn Hughes – named the event’s greatest defender – additionally made the all-star workforce.
Slovakian and Montreal Canadiens ahead Juraj Slafkovsky was the lone participant not from Canada or the U.S. to make the event all-star workforce.
Canada had beforehand crushed the USA for Olympic gold in 2002 and 2010.
The silver leaves Canada with 21 medals on the Video games, eighth within the total standings behind Norway (41), the USA (33), and host Italy (30).