Team USA won the women’s hockey gold medal in an absolute thriller today in Milan, beating the Canadian club 2-1 in overtime after rallying to tie the game with about two minutes left. Megan Keller scored the golden goal at 4:07 in the 3-on-3 OT frame to secure the heavily-favored Americans’ third Olympic championship.
It was the eighth meeting in the Olympics final between the neighboring countries, with hockey-mad Canada winning five of the previous matchups including 2022 in Beijing. No other country has won gold since women’s hockey debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1998 Winter Olympic in Sochi, Japan.
U.S. captain Hilary Knight, in her fourth and final Games, tied the game 1-1 at 17:56 on the third period, tipping in a long shot from rookie Olympian Laila Edwards with the American goalie pulled for an extra attacker. It was Knight’s 15th goal in Olympic competition, breaking a tie for the most in U.S. history.
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During the pre-OT break, NBCUniversal showed a photo of the two together taken when Edwards was a youngster.
With the North American archrivals long expected to face off for the gold, the game was a nail-biter throughout. After a scoreless first period, Canada’s Kristin O’Neill netted a short-handed goal early in the second. The teams battled relentlessly after that before Knight’s stunning tying tally.
The game aired live on USA Network in the States and streamed on Peacock. It was the United States’ eighth gold medal of the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.