Canada Golden In Women’s Hockey; Poulin’s Two Goals Beat USA, 2-0

Led by an unbelievable performance by their goaltender, Canada defeated the United States in the gold medal game at the 2010 Winter Olympics on Thursday night. The final score was 2-0, and both goals were scored by 18-year-old Dawson College student Marie-Phillip Poulin, who no doubt is having the best night of her young life tonight.

From start to finish, the United States just couldn’t generate quality scoring chances. Szabados made several key saves, many of them extremely impressive, but in the end they didn’t get enough traffic in front of the red hot goaltender to successfully disrupt her ability to make saves.

Marie-Phillip Poulin is having the game of her life, and it’s only the first period. At 18 years old, it’s her first Olympics. She’s in her home country. And now, she’s put Team Canada up 2-0 on two first period goals over their biggest rival, the United States.

The Americans haven’t played poorly, but Canadian goaltender Shannon Szabados has thwarted each US chance. They’ll have to find some way to get one by her, and it’ll have to come sooner rather than later.

Canadian goaltender Shannon Szabados stood on her head at one end as a relentless American attack bombarded her with the power play. They say that a flawlessly executed power play and a few key saves can shift the momentum in one direction, and that’s exactly what happened as the time ticked off the penalty clock.

The Canadians took the puck the other way, and 18-year-old Marie-Phillip Poulin blasted a shot over the shoulder of American goaltender Jessie Vetter to give the home team the 1-0 lead. Let’s see how the USA responds.