An overtime goal decided the outcome of the first meeting of the United States and Canada at the 2024 International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship. An overtime goal also decided the outcome of the second meeting of the event’s top two teams, but the second one ended a very different game, and it was scored by the other team.
Danielle Serdachny, who recently completed her senior season a short drive away at Colgate University, scored 5:16 into overtime and Canada claimed its 13th tournament gold medal with a 6-5 win over the United States on Sunday at Utica’s Adirondack Bank Center.
The United States, the reigning champion crowned in 2023 in Brampton, Ontario, had beaten Canada 1-0 in overtime in pool play on the same ice six days earlier.
More: Colgate University hockey teammates face off in IIHF Women’s World Championship
The decisive Serdachny goal, her second of the tournament, came with two seconds remaining on the first power play of overtime.
“She spun around, found a loose puck, and put it in the net,” Troy Ryan, Canada’s coach, said of the winning goal that gave him a record 25th victory.
Serdachny said she was screening US goaltender Aerin Frankel on the play, and teammate Erin Ambrose’s shot hit her thigh. She got a stick on the puck and backhanded it past Frankel.
“Ambrose had a good shot,” said Serdachny, twice a Patty Kazmeier Memorial Award finalist at Colgate and the leading scorer on the Raiders’ Frozen Four team this winter. “I wound up hitting on a lucky one. When (the puck) was in the back of the goal, it was unbelievable.”
Skating four-on-three for the overtime power play, Ambrose had received the puck from goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens who was credited with the other assist.
“It’s pretty special to get Canada back on top,” said Serdachny, who arrived at Colgate from Edmonton, Alberta.
The teams had traded goals throughout the game, taking turns taking one-goal leads and tying the score. The score had been tied at 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, but there would be no tie at 6 after play went to three-on-three, sudden death competition. Even the three-on-three format proved to be important; the expiring power play started when the US was penalized for having too many players on the ice, and the overtime power play procedure adds a player on the non-offending team rather than taking one away from the penalized squad.
Ambrose, who did not have a point in six previous tournament games, got the scoring started Sunday with an unassisted goal 6 1/2…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at "ice hockey" – Google News…