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1. LNH : Les Hurricanes peuvent encore croire au trophée des Présidents  RDS
2. LNH : Seth Jarvis s'occupe des Blackhawks  Le Journal de Montréal
3. Un ouragan dans la ville des vents  TVA Sports

One of the best rivalries in sports didn’t disappoint on Sunday.

In the championship game at the women’s world hockey championships, Canada captured gold with an epic 6-5 overtime win courtesy of Danielle Serdachny’s winner in the extra frame.

This year’s final was the fourth straight year the two teams had met in the championship, and it added an epic chapter to the storied rivalry.

It’s the 13th time the Canadians have won gold at the event, their third in four years and a hockey game fans won’t soon forget.

Canadian hockey fans flew to social media to congratulate their team on taking back the world title from their southern neighbours. Here are some of the best reactions.

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Canada reclaimed the women's world hockey championship from the United States with a 6-5 overtime win in Sunday's final. Danielle Serdachny scored a power-play goal at 5:16 of overtime to end the showdown.

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1. Team Canada knocks off Team USA, claims gold in IIHF Women's World Championship  The Athletic
2. Serdachny scores overtime winner as Canada edges U.S. for women's hockey worlds gold  CBC Sports
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4. Canada tops U.S. in thrilling OT game to capture gold at women's worlds  TSN
5. Poulin comes up clutch again as Canada beats U.S. to win Women’s Worlds gold  Sportsnet.ca

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5. Mondial de hockey féminin | Les Canadiennes se réapproprient le titre mondial  La Presse

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UTICA, NY — Marie-Philip Poulin turned her cell phone around so she could record as she, Erin Ambrose and Danielle Serdachny all chugged beer from their Tim Hortons cups, and the Team Canada teammates drank until those cups were empty, with gold medals dangling from their necks.

Earlier on this Sunday evening, captain Poulin had a pair of goals, Ambrose opened the scoring, and then she hit Serdachny with a point shot that Serdachny put in the net to give Canada a thrilling 6-5 overtime win over their archrivals Team USA in the women’s world hockey championship final. 

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The game was one for the ages, and it ended in three-on-three overtime, with two seconds remaining on an American penalty for too many players on the ice. 

After dropping the gold medal final to Team USA last year at home, Canada regained the world title on American ice, in front of a sold-out crowd that was heavy on “U! S! A!” chants. Canadian goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens made 18 saves in the back-and-forth victory.

“Going from 1-nothing, 2-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3 and then on and on — it was surreal,” a grinning Poulin said when it was over. “My heart went through a lot during that game, but that’s why we train.”

“That was one of the craziest games to be a part of,” added defender Renata Fast, who led Canada with six points in the tournament, had an assist on Sunday, and was named best defender of the championship. “When have you seen a 6-5 game with Canada and the U.S. in a gold medal game? Just electric.”

Serdachny put it best: “I would say no lead was really safe there until the overtime goal to end it.” 

Oh, this game. It was tied five different times. On four occasions, one team scored and the other answered with a goal less than three minutes later. Hockey’s fiercest rivals delivered once again.

“In between periods I said, ‘I’d love to be a fan sitting up there having a beer, watching this one,’” said Team Canada coach, Troy Ryan. 

When it was over, the Canadian women stood with their arms around each other on the blue line, swaying, singing ‘O Canada.’ A fan wearing an American onesie with an Eagle on it even stuck around to watch the Canadians lift the trophy and celebrate. Natalie Spooner put her son Rory inside that cup and took his picture. 

There were tears in more than a few American eyes as players stood on the blueline to accept their silver medals. 

“Three-on-three is an extremely skilled game and opens up the ice a lot for different mistakes,” said USA captain Hilary Knight, who scored to give her team a short-lived lead in the third period. “And unfortunately, we made a mistake in the wrong time.”

That the Americans had four players on the ice instead of three was glaring in the extra frame.

“I think that’s a big part of the game,” Fast said. “Three on three, you’re trying to manage a bench and we don’t play three on three often, so it’s just a matter of managing the bench and getting the right people out. We wanted to make sure we took advantage of that power-play opportunity, because four on threes are hard to defend against.”

“At the end it was devastating,” said American defender Caroline Harvey, an absolute star all tournament long, with a goal and an assist in the final. 

American fans sure turned up for this one, with a sellout crowd that was chanting “U! S! A! U! S! A!” even before the puck dropped, and a couple fans banging on massive drums. Fans held signs that read things like “Knight Knight Canada” (for captain Hilary), and “All the way USA!” and “Re-peat!” There were plenty of Team USA jerseys in the crowd, and even more flags. On the walk in, American flags were hanging off light posts lit up red, white and blue. 

But for the first time at the Adirondack Bank Center on Sunday, when it was over, the smattering of Canadian fans here yelled “Can-a-da! Can-a-Da!” 

It was Canada that struck first in this final when the game was about eight minutes old. Ambrose’s point shot made its way through traffic and deflected off an American stick to beat goalie Aerin Frankel high on the blocker side, silencing most of this crowd, aside from the pockets of rowdy Canadian fans here.  

Adirondack Bank Center hit an absolute boil a little more than a minute later when American forward Laila Edwards — who had a hat-trick in the semifinal a day earlier — beat Desbiens with a rifle of a wrist shot, top corner, glove side. And that kept happening over and over: One team scores, the other answers. 

Goals from Julia Gosling for Canada and Megan Keller for Team USA tied things up in the second, and then Alex Carpenter gave the Americans their first lead of the night, late in the second. But with a minute to go in the period, captain Poulin carried the puck down the left wing in the American zone and looked to be making a pass, then instead cut toward the faceoff dot and lasered a shot into the top corner, tying the game 3-3. 

“Pou will always find a way to be a difference maker,” Ryan said. “I think without that goal late in the second period, it’s a different hockey game. After them really taking it to us for the better part of that period, for her to come up with that goal at that time, we go in the dressing room and not feeling so bad about ourselves and that’s what she does.”

Poulin, who had just two assists all tournament before Sunday’s final, scored her second of the game to make it 5-4, tipping a Fast point shot and then jumping on the rebound. 

“Yeah it’s pretty obvious that’s the most clutch player of all time,” said Fast.  “Like if they had momentum if she was on the ice, she was able to get momentum back for our team, and that’s what she did with that first goal. And then her second goal as well. And regardless, she just brings so much as a leader. We all follow her play and that’s clutch right there.”

Two minutes after Captain Clutch gave Canada the lead, with five minutes to go in the third, American forward Lacey Eden sent a beautiful pass from behind the net out to Harvey in the slot and Harvey made no mistake, tying things up for the Americans, setting things up for an OT thriller.  

With the win on Sunday, Canada has now won 13 world titles. 

“We came in on a mission for this tournament to kind of get back to the top of the podium,” Fast said, with a white champion’s ballcap on her head and a gold medal around her neck. “It feels really great to be there.”

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Scottie Scheffler had no doubts about this Masters, and neither did anyone watching. He pulled ahead with magnificent shots Sunday and poured it on along the back nine at Augusta National for a 4-under 68 to claim his second green jacket in three years.

The Anaheim Ducks are adding an NCAA star to their roster.

The Ducks signed Boston College standout forward Cutter Gauthier to a three-year, entry-level contract, the team announced Sunday.

Anaheim made the signing just one day after Gautier’s NCAA season came to an end with a Frozen Four title game loss to Denver University.

In 39 regular season games with Boston College this season, Gauthier, 20, recorded 37 goals and 27 assists.

Originally selected by the Philadelphia Flyers with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, Gauthier was traded to the Ducks in January.

Flyers general manager Danny Brière said he traded Gauthier because Gauthier wouldn’t sign, train, or even communicate with the Flyers. Gauthier refused to meet with Brière and Flyers president of hockey operations Keith Jones when they flew to Sweden last month to watch as Gauthier led the U.S. team to the gold medal at the recently completed World Junior Championship.

Gauthier initially told the Flyers that he wouldn’t join them last summer, a year after they drafted him. Brière said he purposely didn’t announce Gauthier’s reluctance or comment publicly on his increasingly awkward relationship with Philly’s top prospect.

With those comments fuelling a social media storm around the trade, Gauthier addressed the reaction he had received in a 30-minute phone call with Anaheim reporters, including The Athletic’s Eric Stephens.

“There’s been a lot of good and bad,” Gauthier said. “A 19-year-old kid getting a lot of death threats and a bunch of thousands and thousands of people reaching out and just saying some pretty poor things that I wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemy, it’s pretty tough to see, obviously. But it’s a business. With all the rumours spreading around that aren’t true, it’s kind of tough to go out and say one word or anything to kind of quiet those people.”

The 20-year-old forward has still not said the exact reason why he didn’t want to play for the Flyers.

“That’s the question (that) kind of everyone’s wondering, and the biggest thing I can say right now is I have to keep it to myself, my family and my agent,” Gauthier said in January. “It’s been a long process in the past handful of months of dealing with this. I don’t think it’s the right time to kind of discuss it. There might be one day where I kind of get into details on what happened. Right now, I want to keep it to a private matter.”

Gauthier was outstanding at the World Junior Championship for team USA this year, tying for the tournament lead with 12 points and scoring the game-winning goal in the third period of the semifinal match.

— With files from the Associated Press

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BALTIMORE — Jackson Holliday’s first hit was worth the wait for the Baltimore Orioles.

It was probably the turning point in the game.

Holliday singled in the seventh inning, then scored the tiebreaking run to help the Orioles beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-4 on Sunday. The 20-year-old rookie, who is the top-ranked prospect in baseball, was 0 for 13 with nine strikeouts before pulling a 99 mph pitch from Abner Uribe through the hole into right field.

“Pretty relieved,” Holliday said. “It’s very nice to finally get it out of the way and just kind of enjoy playing baseball now versus trying to fight for a hit.”

Holliday struck out in his first two at-bats before he came up with the Orioles down 4-3 in the seventh. His single put men on first and third with nobody out. Then Gunnar Henderson singled to tie it, and Holliday sped around to third, barely beating the throw.

He came home when Adley Rutschman grounded into a double play.

“I know he was pressing a lot,” Orioles ace Corbin Burnes said. “Twenty years old, I was still in college. … I can’t say I know what it feels like at 20 years old because I don’t. But just the expectations that he’s had, obviously I’ve been through a little bit of that, so I know what he’s going through.”

Holliday came up again the following inning but grounded out with two on.

The Orioles took Holliday with the No. 1 pick in the 2022 draft. He stormed through the minors last year, reaching Triple-A, and after a few games there this year he was called up to make his major league debut Wednesday night at Boston.

“It’s a lot, but it’s been fun. It’s quite an experience. I don’t think I would ever take it for granted, the experience that I’m having,” Holliday said. “If you go 0-for for three or four games, it’s going to happen in baseball. I’d prefer it not to be at the beginning of my career, but it’s going to happen. I’m glad to hopefully learn from it.”

After going hitless for three games, he got the day off Saturday. After his first two plate appearances Sunday, he’d struck out six straight times.

Against Uribe, Holliday took a slider for a ball and then got a pitch he could handle.

“I knew he only had two pitches — obviously they’re two really good pitches, and he throws really hard,” Holliday said. “When I saw the first slider, I knew that all I had to do was get him up and I was in a good spot.”

1. Ducks Sign Gauthier to Entry-Level Contract | Anaheim Ducks  NHL.com
2. Ducks sign top NCAA goal-scorer Gauthier  NHL.com
3. Ducks sign Cutter Gauthier to three-year, entry-level contract  Sportsnet.ca
4. Anaheim Ducks sign Cutter Gauthier to entry-level contract  Daily Faceoff
5. Ducks Sign Cutter Gauthier to ELC, Set to Make NHL Debut in Final Game  The Hockey News