Canada Defeats Their Rival USA To Take Group A off Thanks to Stellar Goaltending
In another instant classic team Canada defeats their biggest rival Team USA in women's hockey at the Olympics in Beijing.
The difference in this one was team Canada's goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens setting a Canadian Olympic record making 51 saves for Team Canada in a game what will be talked about for years to come.
Canada opened the scoring but the team USA would battle back to take a 2-1 lead. That only would fire Canada up who scored 3 unanswered goals lead by Brianna Jenner, the sister of Columbus Blue Jackets Boone Jenner, who had 2 goals. Jamie Lee Rattray was the other scorer, the game-winning goal for Canada.
With a 3-2 game the GOAT, captain Canada Marie-Philip Poulin was hooked on a breakaway causing a penalty shot. Marie-Philip is pure money you know she ain't missing that. Poulin scored and make it 4-2 Canada and that's all she wrote.
Canada will finish at the top of the standings in group A heading into the medal round but we can't give enough credit to team Canada's Ann-Renée Desbiens who if not for her this game would as been a different story. This will go down as one of the greatest goaltending performance in Olympic history.
