Game Recap - Four Nations Cup - Championship Game - United States vs Canada - Sunday, November 8 - USAHockey.com
Hilary Knight Overtime Goal Gives United States Four Nations Cup Win!
Sundsvall, Sweden - Hilary Knight (Sun Valley, Idaho) scored in overtime - United States Women's National Team claim its sixth Four Nations Cup Championship.
The United States trailed Canada 2-1 going into the third period but prevailed in a hard-fought final period and extra frame - winning by the score of 3-2.
Jessie Vetter (Cottage Grove, Wisconsin) stopped 30 of the 32 shots she faced to earn the victory.
After a scoreless first period, Canada took a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal that was redirected in the slot off a point shot at 1:04 of the second period.
Brianna Decker (Dousman, Wisconsin) responded at 6:36 on the power play, picking up a loose puck and putting it past Canada's goaltender to even the score.
Canada added another goal at 14:15 and went into the second intermission with a 2-1 lead.
The United States entered the third period on a power play and seconds after it expired, Decker notched her second goal of the game at 1:46 to make it 2-2.
The score remained tied to send the game into overtime.
Then just thirty-six seconds into the extra frame, Knight skated in on a partial breakaway and buried a shot over the glove hand of Canada's goalie to seal the 3-2 victory.
Notes - Brianna Decker was named United States Player Of The Game.
Kelli Stack was named the Four Nations Cup Best Forward - Tournaments Leading Scorer - 2 Goals - 6 Assists.
Monique Lamoureux was named Four Nations Cup Best Defensemen - Lead All Defenseman - 2 Goals - 4 Assists.
Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson registered the most goals with four.
United States has now captured the Four Nations Cup - six times (1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015).
Rest Of The Game Recap - http://www.usahockey.com/news_article/show/574426?referrer_id=1093254
BoxScore - United States 3 Canada 2 (OT) - http://stats.swehockey.se/Game/Events/289277