{"id":834745,"date":"2025-03-17T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/canada-beats-team-usa-on-connor-mcdavids-overtime-goal-in-4-nations-face-off-championship-thriller\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T18:12:32","slug":"canada-beats-team-usa-on-connor-mcdavids-overtime-goal-in-4-nations-face-off-championship-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/canada-beats-team-usa-on-connor-mcdavids-overtime-goal-in-4-nations-face-off-championship-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada beats Team USA on Connor McDavid\u2019s overtime goal in 4 Nations Face-Off championship thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BOSTON \u2014 The Americans said it was their time, but the Canadians reminded them it was their game.<\/p>\n

An advertisement for Team Canada circulated back in Montreal,\u201cNotre \u00e9quipe. Notre sport,\u201d which translates to \u201cOur team. Our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the Canadians played to that mantra in a 3-2 overtime win<\/a> over the United States to uphold their 15-year run as best-on-best champions by adding the first 4 Nations Face-Off trophy to an already-crowded cabinet.<\/p>\n

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\"Connor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

Connor McDavid is mobbed by teammates after scoring the game-winning overtime goal in Team USA\u2019s 3-2 loss to Canada in the 4 Nations Face-Off final on Feb. 20, 2025 in Boston. World Cup of Hockey via Getty Im<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last of the four nations standing, thanks to OT hero and Player of the Game, Connor McDavid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know, for myself personally, that\u2019s going to be on my mind for the next year,\u201d Brady Tkachuk said. \u201cBack in Ottawa, it\u2019s all about team success there. It\u2019s hard when you\u2019re playing here. It\u2019s hard to think about in year\u2019s time what we want to accomplish. I\u2019ll always remember this feeling going into next year [at the Olympics]<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team USA was looking to prove itself as a hockey powerhouse in this 4 Nations tournament, and the only team it could do it against was Canada.<\/p>\n

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Connor Hellebuyck reacting as Team Canada celebrates their game winning goal in overtime at the 4 Nations Face-Off Championship in Boston. Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite being the first team to secure its spot in the final with a 3-1 win over the Canadians in the round-robin, the United States was hindered by an ailing bench and stifled by an opposing goalie in Jordan Binnington on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Matthew Tkachuk didn\u2019t take a single shift in the third period or overtime, as the Panthers star presumably labored with the same injury that kept him out of the final 12:36 of the first Canada game and against Sweden.<\/p>\n

No one probably felt more at home than Binnington, who led the St. Louis Blues to a Stanley Cup-winning Game 7 victory inside TD Garden in 2019. <\/p>\n

He came up with 31 saves, locking down with six in overtime<\/a>, to help propel Canada to victory in a game compared to that very stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought our team competed extremely hard all night long,\u201d Team USA coach Mike Sullivan said. \u201cIt was a tremendous hockey game, fast paced. This is the fastest hockey I\u2019ve ever been a part of, the whole tournament. Tonight was no different. You look at the overtime, we had three or four grade-A looks. We don\u2019t score. They get an icing, and they score. I don\u2019t know if we can dissect it any more than that. It was a pretty even hockey game, where both teams had momentum at different times. I thought it was an incredible display of hockey, on both sides. This is the very best of the best out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the winner of five of the previous six best-on-best international hockey tournaments, as well as nine of the 13 overall involving NHL players, going back to the 1976 Canada Cup, it should come as no surprise Canada prevailed.<\/p>\n

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Connor McDavid celebrates after scoring the game-winning overtime goal in Team USA\u2019s loss to Canada. World Cup of Hockey via Getty Im<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brady Tkachuk and Auston Matthews react dejectedly after Team USA\u2019s overtime loss to Canada. Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has won many times, won many gold medals and trophies, but something else was on the line for Canada on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

As much as both sides said the political climate between the two nations had no influence on the matchup, Canadian fans watching at home were certainly pulling for their players to stick it to the country whose president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly threatened them with annexation.<\/p>\n

The message was sent on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n

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\"Sidney<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

Sidney Crosby (left) celebrates with his teammates after Canada\u2019s overtime win over Team USA. Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What else would you expect from the first time McDavid, Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon joined forces?<\/p>\n

The Americans still feel like they were right there, and it\u2019s something they\u2019ll hang on to as they prepare for a consistent schedule of international play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say it\u2019s a pretty even playing field, in my opinion,\u201d USA captain Auston Matthews said of how close they came and how far they still have to go. \u201cThat could\u2019ve gone either way, so \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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Connor Hellebuyck gives up the game winning goal to Connor McDavid (not pictured) in overtime of Team USA\u2019s loss to Canada. Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The U.S. took a lead in the second period \u2014 briefly. World Cup of Hockey via Getty Im<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a moment the United States couldn\u2019t seize, but it\u2019s one Canada has delivered on so many times before.<\/p>\n

Canada is hockey history, and this Canadian team captured the NHL\u2019s 4 Nations Face-Off title to assert it\u2019s still the best.<\/p>\n

That is, until this time next year in Milan, where NHL players will make their grand return to the Olympic Winter Games.<\/p>\n

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Sam Bennett (9) celebrates his second period goal with forward Brandon Hagel (38) during Canada\u2019s overtime win over Team USA on Feb. 20, 2025 at TD Garden. Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For now, the hope is that American hockey players have taken notice of the noise this team was able to make the past 10 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a tough time with USA Hockey getting guys to play in the world championships, and I think guys that are at home watching this, I\u2019m hoping they\u2019re wanting a piece of it,\u201d Dylan Larkin said. \u201cThey got to go to the world championships and prove themselves and play for their country. We\u2019ve got to start winning that tournament, and I think that\u2019s where Canada \u2014 those guys go and they play and that\u2019s where it starts, pride for your country, pride for the flag and that crest going out for a game is just an unbelievable feeling. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis grew the game really well, but I hope it pushes guys to want a piece of this and then the next generation that got to watch this, they\u2019re going to watch the Olympics next year and hopefully there\u2019s a different outcome from our country and that we feel we deserved.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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BOSTON \u2014 The Americans said it was their time, but the Canadians reminded them it was their game. An advertisement for Team Canada circulated back in Montreal,\u201cNotre \u00e9quipe. Notre sport,\u201d which translates to \u201cOur team. Our game.\u201d And the Canadians played to that mantra in a 3-2 overtime win over the United States to uphold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3994,3150],"tags":[6926,8233],"class_list":{"0":"post-834745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beats","8":"category-canada","9":"tag-beats","10":"tag-canada"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}