Canada’s women’s Olympic hockey team just won silver
We’re still processing the loss, but wow, what a game
In a riveting overtime period that had us doing diaphragmatic breathing exercises at our desks, Canada’s women’s Olympic hockey team narrowly lost the gold medal game to the United States. The final score was 2–1.
It was devastating, we can’t lie, especially after such a strong game overall.
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“The Canadian women’s team acquitted themselves exceptionally well in that final,” wrote journalist Thomas Drance of the Athletic. “Heartbreaking way for it to end, but you’ve got to be proud of how that storied group competed in the final.”
We’re proud of the whole silver medal-winning team, who were incredible to watch throughout the entire tournament, but especially Marie-Philip Poulin, who became the all-time leading goal scorer in women’s Olympic hockey history this week, in Canada’s game against Switzerland—an achievement she reached while injured.
Kristin O’Neill’s shorthanded goal will also go down in Olympic history. If Oakville had a CN Tower, it would be lighting up in her honour tonight.
As for tomorrow, our cherished national pastime of experiencing intense collective anxiety over hockey will continue during the men’s semi-final game against Finland at 10:40 a.m. ET. So we can all be screaming at our screens together before noon!
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
