TAMPERE, Finland – Canada’s National Women’s Development Team came up short in the gold medal game at the 2024 Women’s Euro Hockey Tour, falling 5-3 to the United States on Sunday.
“It has been an incredible experience for our group,” said head coach Alison Domenico (Ottawa, ON/University of Ottawa, OUA). “We had a couple of new players from summer camp, we saw a lot of progress from our four games together and I’m really happy with where we ended off.”
Canada jumped out to the early lead when Anne Cherkowski (Coldstream, BC/Clarkson University, ECAC) converted a shorthanded penalty shot at 17:56 of the first period.
The Americans would strike for three goals in a span of 4:28 in the second period to take a two-goal lead into the intermission, but Jocelyn Amos (Ailsa Craig, ON/Ohio State University, WCHA) and Alex Law (Brooklin, ON/Boston University, HE) brought Canada back even at 3-3 with less than six minutes to go before the U.S. retook the lead and added insurance into an empty net.
Canadian goaltender Ève Gascon (Mascouche, QC/University of Minnesota Duluth, WCHA) was terrific, finishing the game with 33 saves.
A full game summary is available here.
“I’m super proud of the group. In the dressing room between the second and third periods, we never lost belief in each other,” said Amos. “We came out and knew we had to battle and make a push for it right away, and I’m proud we managed to tie the game up. We’re a younger team; I thought the tournament was a good opportunity to prove ourselves and it’s always an honour to represent Canada.”
Canada reached the gold medal game allowing just one goal in its first three games; it finished atop Group B in the preliminary round with wins over Sweden (2-1) and Czechia (3-0), and blanked host Finland 3-0 in the semifinals.
Amos finished as Canada’s leading scorer in the tournament with five points, including three goals, while Gascon fashioned a 1.69 goals-against average and .932 save percentage across her three appearances.
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