Canadian hockey player refuses to wear silver medal after loss to US

Defenseman Jocelyne Larocque pulled the medal from her neck just seconds after it was placed there on Thursday.

This year’s Team USA consists of Shuster, George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner and alternate Joe Polo.

It would have been devastating if the US had lost again this year and watched Canada accept their fifth gold medal in a row, but this team refused to let it happen. “It’s my second family and I’m so proud of all of them”, said team captain Marie-Philip Poulin. “We’re definitely not happy with the end result”. The Germans scored on the powerplay to make it 4-1 after two periods.

John Shuster, Matt Hamilton and the US men’s curling team are going where the Americans have never gone before: the Olympic gold medal game.

The women’s 3-2 victory also, however, solidified stardom for one of the top Americans on ice in South Korea – Hilary Knight.

“It’s obviously easier for me to say now”, US women’s coach Robb Stauber said, breaking into a smile.

“And my first response was: unless you’re on the other end”.

The U.S. women’s hockey team, on the biggest stage, ended a 20-year drought winning the gold medal in a “you have to see it believe it” shoot-out against Canada.

Without their National Hockey League stars, the nine-time champions were outplayed by Germany, who will face the Olympic Athletes from Russian Federation in Sunday’s final, while Canada will play the Czech Republic for bronze on Saturday.

“I know she has ice in her veins”, Stauber said. Jocelyne Lamoureax-Davidson had the definitive goal of the gold-medal game during the shootout.

It sure looked like it. Rooney made 29 saves through overtime, then turned away shots from four Canadians in the six-round shootout, smiling along the way at her jubilant teammates on the bench.

“It was the first thing a lot of my players said to me… coach, did you see that game?”, Lovett said. She shot the puck into Rooney’s pad, and it skittered toward the crease, inching toward the goal line.

She was fighting every minute just like the rest of her teammates.

“That is how it works”, Canada forward Blayre Turnbull said.

The first shootout in an Olympic women’s final.

A recap of the men’s and women’s hockey tournaments at the Pyeongchang Olympics. “No one likes losing“, she said. With its intense sweeping action, stones that looks like a Pokeball-hockey puck hybrid, a Mario look-a-like and Norwegian fancy trousers, what’s not to love about the Winter Olympics’ longest sport (with 18 consecutive days of play)? With a day to think about it, she has expressed regret. She has since released a statement saying she wishes she could take it back.

“I don’t think it ever goes away”, she said.