BRAMPTON, Ontario — Hilary Knight scored 3 times, together with the go-ahead purpose with 3:10 left in regulation, and the Americans received their tenth girls’s world hockey championships gold medal and first in 4 years with a 6-3 win over cross-border rival Canada on Sunday night time.

Caroline Harvey had a purpose and help, and Abbey Murphy and Cayla Barnes, with an empty-net purpose, additionally scored. The Americans scored 4 unanswered targets within the third interval. Aerin Frankel stopped 24 photographs. Knight upped her tournament-record profession purpose whole to 61, whereas additionally extending her document level whole to 101.

The Americans overcame three one-goal deficits earlier than Knight scored twice within the span of 27 seconds to capitalize on a two-player benefit with the sport tied at 3.

With Brianne Jenner off for tripping and Claire Thompson penalized 1:11 later for delay of sport, Knight snapped in a shot from the mid-slot to beat Ann-Renee Desbiens excessive on the glove facet. Knight made it 5-3 by deflecting in Harvey’s shot from the left level.

Jenner scored twice and added an help, and Marie-Philip Poulin had a purpose and help for Canada, which was in search of its thirteenth match title. Desbiens stopped 16 photographs in dropping her first match sport in 17 profession begins.

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