The United States prevailed 2-1 in overtime over top favourites Canada at the Milan/Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday to claim a third women's ice hockey gold.
Record five time champions Canadians took the lead through Kristin O'Neill's short-handed goal early in the second period but the US dominated the match after conceding.
They kept threatening a leveller but struggled to find a breakthrough. The dramatic equalizer, however, came with some two minutes left to the end of the third period.
The US pulled out their goalie for an extra attacker and the move paid off when Hilary Knight was on target to force overtime.
The first team to score would take gold and this time around the US didn't need too long: less than five minutes into overtime, Megan Keller slipped the puck through Ann-Renee Desbiens to secure their first gold medal since 2018 and third overall.
Since the women's event was introduced in 1998, either the US or Canada have won gold, and they have met in seven of the eight finals.
The US took the highest place on the podium in 1998 and 2018, while the Canadians had only lost the 2018 final since winning their first gold in 2002.
Only the gold medal match at Turin 2006 had a different team involved with Sweden claiming silver.
Earlier, Switzerland took bronze from Alina Müller's 2-1 overtime winner against Sweden.
Müller also scored the goal that gave Switzerland their first bronze in 2014 as they defeated Sweden 4-3. Back then, she was 15 years old.
The Scandinavians went ahead through Mira Jungaker in the second period but Sinja Leemann hit back four minutes later to ultimately force overtime.
