USA’s Hilary Knight already won her ninth gold and 13th medal at the World Championships. The USA captain, who scored a hat trick in the final, scored the 100th point of her career at the Women’s World Cup when she scored the winning goal.
Jonne Niemeläinen,
STT Sports
The United States has won the women’s ice hockey world championship. In the final match played on Finnish time the night before Monday, the team defeated the host country of the tournament, Canada, 6–3.
Canada led the match on three different occasions, but the persistent USA always rose to the level and passed in the final set.
The power player of the final was from the United States Hilary Knight, who scored three goals, two of which were scored in the final set. Knight won the goal exchange of the tournament and already celebrated the ninth World Cup gold medal of his career. In addition to nine world championships, the USA captain’s trophy cabinet also includes one Olympic gold medal.
Only a Canadian striker has previously reached nine World Cup golds Danielle Goyette57.
Knight also has four World Championship silver medals in his trophy cabinet, so he has already won a total of 13 World Championship medals during his career. Only a Canadian has won as many medals from the Women’s World Championships Hayley Wickenheiser44.
Knight broke a handsome mark in the World Cup final, as she now has 101 points from the Women’s World Cup. He broke the 100-point mark when he scored a 4–3 winning goal in 56:50.
– I’m really happy that we rallied and won. We have a really young group that won as a team, Knight expressed in the field interview in the middle of the victory celebration.
This was already the third time that Knight scored the winning goal in the World Cup final.
– It requires a whole team so that one player can succeed. I said throughout the match that you have to stay calm and pay attention to the small details.
The USA won in the third set
Canada led the match after two periods 3–2, but the United States’ power defender Caroline Harvey equalized at the beginning of the final set to make it 3–3. After that, Knight scored two goals late in the match and Cayla Barnes finished the final numbers 6–3.
– Unfortunately, our game crumbled in the third period. We lost our grip when the USA got to play five on three, Canada’s captain Marie-Philip Poulin your sum.
The loss ended Canada’s streak of three gold medals, as the team celebrated World Cup gold in 2021 and 2022 and Olympic gold in 2022.
Harvey wedged past Nieminen with chalk lines
The star striker of the Lady Lions Petra Nieminen was caught up to the chalk lines in the World Cup tournament’s point exchange victory, but the powerful defender Harvey, who recorded 1+1 performances in the final, got past the Finn at the end of the closing set of the final. First, Harvey tied the USA 3-3 in the third period in 45:40 and then scored a 5-3 power play two minutes and ten seconds before the final buzzer.
Nieminen was encouraged with 6+7=13 performances from seven matches, and the 20-year-old Yankee player totaled 4+10=14 performances.
Knight (8+4=12), who completed the hat trick in the final match, finished third in the points market.
The Czech Republic, which brought down Finland, celebrated the bronze
The bronze medals went to the Czech Republic, which won the bronze medal match with Switzerland’s goals 3–2. Czech hero was Denisa Krizova, who scored the Czech Republic’s first and third goals. In addition, Krizova passed Michaela Pejzlovan scored a goal.
Finland finished fifth in the World Cup and lost to the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals.