SOCHI, Russia -- The United States and Canada staged another dramatic chapter of their heated rivalry in the gold-medal game of the Winter Games in Sochi.
The U.S. was 55 seconds from claiming gold when Canada stunned it to tie the game and went on to capture its fourth consecutive gold medal with a stunning 3-2 victory in overtime over the Americans on Thursday at the Bolshoy Ice Dome.
Marie-Philip Poulin scored the winner for Canada, which erased a two-goal deficit late in the third to deny the U.S. gold for the second Olympics in a row.
Brianne Decker and Poulin scored in regulation for Canada while Meghan Duggan and Alex Carpenter found the back of the net for the Americans. Canada extended its Olympic winning streak to 19 games.
Duggan scored in the second period when she picked her spot and fired a wrist shot through traffic into the upper-right-hand corner of the goal.
In the third, the U.S. took a two-goal lead while on the power play. Hilary Knight took advantage of the open ice, fired a puck across it to Carpenter who converted on a one-timer from in front.
Decker cut the deficit in half when she chipped in a shot from the left dot and with :55 remaining, Poulin shoveled in a shot from near the left post to tie it.
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