Canada reclaimed the women’s world hockey championship with a measure of revenge.
After losing last year’s gold-medal game to the United States on home ice in Brampton, Ont., the Canadians turned the tables with Sunday’s 6-5 overtime 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 said. “We owed it to them and owed it to ourselves to win that one.”
Danielle Serdachny scored the golden goal at 5:16 of overtime on a Canadian power play. The U.S. was caught with too many players on the ice in OT of a see-saw battle between women’s hockey heavyweights.
Serdachny scored Canada’s second power-play goal of the entire tournament with two seconds left in that penalty.
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Serdachny scores golden goal in OT as Canada beats the U.S. to win women’s hockey worlds
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Danielle Serdachny scored a power-play goal in overtime as Canada reclaimed the women’s world hockey championship from the United States 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’m still a bit in shock,” Serdachny said. “I just tried to take the goalie’s eyes away there and the rebound kind of popped right to me, so bit of a lucky one I’d say but just tried to get everything into it.
“When it was in the back of the net, I couldn’t believe it still.”
Canada’s captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored her first two goals of the tournament. She tied the game in the second period and gave her team a brief 5-4 lead in the third.
The 33-year-old missed three PWHL Montreal games heading into the international break and sat out Canada’s pre-tournament win over Finland with an undisclosed injury.
As Canadian head coach Troy Ryan gradually increased his captain’s minutes in the tournament, Poulin was a feisty, physical force getting under opposing players’ skins before getting on the scoresheet Sunday.
“Pou will always find a way to be a difference maker,” Ryan said. “The end of the preliminaries and in the semifinal, she impacted with a little bit of greasy play with physicality and just finding ways to impact the game.
“Tonight was just a whole other level. I could see in her eyes every time we called her name that she was ready to go. There’s very few athletes in the world that can perform in a pressure situation like she can.”
Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin, second from right, scored her first two goals of the tournament in the final. The 33-year-old sat out Canada’s pre-tournament win over Finland with an undisclosed injury. (Adrian Kraus/The Associated Press)
Ambrose, Emily Clark and Julia Gosling also scored for Canada.
Desbiens had 19 saves in a high-scoring game that contrasted starkly with Canada’s 1-0 loss in overtime to the U.S. in a Group A game earlier in the tournament.
No one Canadian player dominated the team’s offence with 17 different women scoring at least one goal.
Renata Fast was chosen the tournament’s top defender by the IIHF and was also named to the all-star team on defence.
Only Canada’s 7-5 win over the U.S. in 2015 was a higher scoring final among the 22 games the two countries have played.
The archrivals required overtime or a shootout to decide a gold medal for an eighth time in tournament history.
Caroline Harvey, Hilary Knight, Megan Keller, Alex Carpenter and tournament MVP Laila Edwards scored for the U.S. Frankel stopped 24 shots in the loss.
‘Extremely skilled game’
“Three on three [overtime] is an extremely skilled game. It opens up the ice a lot for different mistakes and unfortunately we made a mistake in the wrong time,” Knight said.
“I know we had two seconds on the clock with the kill and hats off to our penalty killers who have been absolutely outstanding all tournament. It really stings not to be able to get over the hump for this one.”
Canada won a 13th gold medal in 23 tournaments. The 2024 world championship was the first held in the era of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League.
Canada and the U.S. carried a combined 30 PWHL players on its rosters in Utica with the rest hailing from the NCAA.
While the gap between the North Americans and the rest of the field didn’t close much in Utica, the pace and speed of games between Canada and the U.S. kicked into a higher gear with more players in midseason form.
Players on both sides said their preliminary-round game was the fastest and hardest game of their lives, and that high-octane hockey continued Sunday with a gold medal on the line in front of a pro-U. S. sellout crowd of 4,142 at the Adirondack Bank Center.
“The longer you stick around, the rivalry just continues to develop,” said U.S. defender Megan Keller. “It’s fun to be a part of. A little more fun when you’re on the winning side.”
Finland edged the Czech Republic 3-2 in a shootout for the bronze medal. The 2025 women’s world championship will be held in Ceske Budejovice, the Czech Republic.
Canada roster
Forwards: 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: Erin Ambrose, Keswick, Ont., Montreal (PWHL); Ashton Bell, Deloraine, Man., Ottawa (PWHL); Jaime Bourbonnais, Mississauga, Ont., New York (PWHL); Renata Fast, 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: 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)
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings made another investment this week in a young standout, signing Moritz Seider to a seven-year contract worth nearly $60 million.
The Red Wings announced the move with the 23-year-old German defenseman on Thursday, three days after keeping 22-year-old forward Lucas Raymond with a $64.6 million, eight-year deal.
Detroit drafted Seider with the No. 6 pick overall eight years ago and he has proven to be a great pick. He has 134 career points, the most by a defenseman drafted in 2019.
He was the NHL’s only player to have at least 200 hits and block 200-plus shots last season, when he scored a career-high nine goals and had 42 points for the second straight year.
Seider won the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie in 2022 after he had a career-high 50 points.
Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman is banking on Seider, whose contract will count $8.55 million annually against the cap, and Raymond to turn a rebuilding team into a winner.
Detroit has failed to make the playoffs in eight straight seasons, the longest postseason drought in franchise history.
The Red Wings, who won four Stanley Cups from 1997 to 2008, have been reeling since their run of 25 straight postseasons ended in 2016.
Detroit was 41-32-9 last season and finished with a winning record for the first time since its last playoff appearance.
Yzerman re-signed Patrick Kane last summer and signed some free agents, including Vladimir Tarasenko to a two-year contract worth $9.5 million after he helped the Florida Panthers hoist the Cup.
PENTICTON, B.C. – Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko says he’s been working his way back from a rare lower-body muscle injury since being sidelined in last season’s playoffs.
The 28-year-old all star says the rehabilitation process has been frustrating, but he has made good progress in recent weeks and is confident he’ll be able to return to playing.
He says he and his medical team have spent the last few months talking to specialists around the world, and have not found a single other hockey player who has dealt with the same injury.
Demko missed several weeks of the last season with a knee ailment and played just one game in Vancouver’s playoff run last spring before going down with the current injury.
He was not on the ice with his teammates as the Canucks started training camp in Penticton, B.C., on Thursday, but skated on his own before the sessions began.
Demko posted a 35-14-2 record with a .918 percentage, a 2.45 goals-against average and five shutouts for Vancouver last season.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 19, 2024.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — No. 1 Texas will start Arch Manning at quarterback Saturday against Louisiana-Monroe while regular starter Quinn Ewers continues to recover from a strained muscle in his abdomen, coach Steve Sarkisian said Thursday.
It will be the first career start for Manning, a second year freshman. He relieved Ewers in the second quarter last week against UTSA, and passed for four touchdowns and ran for another in a 56-7 Texas victory.
Manning is the son of Cooper Manning, the grandson of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning, and the nephew of Super Bowl-winning QBs Peyton and Eli Manning.
Ewers missed several games over the previous two seasons with shoulder and sternum injuries.
The Longhorns are No. 1 for the first time since 2008 and Saturday’s matchup with the Warhawks is Texas’ last game before the program starts its first SEC schedule against Mississippi State on Sept. 28.
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