Weekend recap: Canadian women's hockey team reunifies the titles

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Another women's hockey thriller, two more victories for Canada's best swimmer and a season-ending trophy for the national men's curling champion highlighted a winning weekend for Canadian Olympic athletes. Here's a recap:

Canada took back the women's hockey world title.

Danielle Serdachny's power-play goal five minutes into overtime gave Canada a dramatic 6-5 victory over the United States in yesterday's world championship final in Utica, N.Y. Serdachny, a 22-year-old forward from Edmonton who starred at Colgate University this season, backhanded home a rebound for her second goal of the tournament in the dying seconds of Canada's 4-on-3 advantage resulting from a U.S. penalty for having too many players on the ice.

Serdachny's goal gave Canada its third world championship in four years — all via one-goal wins over the U.S. in the gold-medal game. Last year, the Americans defeated Canada 6-3 in the final in Brampton, Ont., to capture their first title since 2019.

The Canadians returned the favour on their archrivals' home ice with help from — of course — Marie-Philip Poulin. The 33-year-old captain, whose uncanny knack for clutch goals has propelled Canada to numerous titles over the last decade and a half, came into the tournament banged up and had not scored heading into the final. But Poulin came through again with two goals — a bar-down beauty that tied it 3-3 in the second period before she put Canada up 5-4 in the third. "There's very few athletes in the world that can perform in a pressure situation like she can," said coach Troy Ryan.

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