Canada defeats U.S. to capture gold at women’s U18 hockey worlds
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It had the makings of an early blowout, however the US made changes on the fly Monday night time and turned the gold-medal closing on the under-18 girls’s world hockey championship into an actual thriller.
However Canada, which constructed a 3-0 lead on targets by Alexia Aubin, Ava Murphy and Jocelyn Amos, have been capable of maintain on and defeat the U.S. 3-2 at LaBahn Ice Area on Monday night time.
🇨🇦 <a href=”https://twitter.com/HockeyCanada?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>@HockeyCanada</a> receives their medals! 🥇 <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/U18Worlds?src=hash&ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>#U18Worlds</a> <a href=”https://t.co/SKMtKTOFiC”>pic.twitter.com/SKMtKTOFiC</a>
—@IIHFHockey
Finley McCarthy and Claire Enright scored second-period targets seven seconds aside to make the ultimate interval attention-grabbing.
The U-18 girls’s hockey championship was affected by a cancellation and a delay as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. The occasion was initially scheduled to happen in January in Linkoping and Mjolby, Sweden, earlier than being postponed and moved.
The Worldwide Ice Hockey Federation brought about a backlash on social media when it introduced the cancellation of the 2022 girls’s event two weeks out from its Jan. 8 begin. The announcement got here on the eve of the lads’s under-20 championship being again in Edmonton — which lasted simply 4 days due to COVID outbreaks.
The IIHF introduced in March that the 2022 girls’s U18 championship could be moved and rescheduled fairly than cancelled outright.
Source: CBC Sports activities
