Hilary Knight makes history for Team USA while winning gold medal
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Bruce Raymond
Feb 19, 2026 (4:09 PM)
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Photo credit: Amber Searls-Imagn Images
Hilary Knight just rewrote Team USA women’s hockey history in the gold medal game, then watched a gold medal follow the record.
She didn’t pick a quiet moment, either. She did it against Canada, with everything tight and tense.
Down 1-0 late, the Americans kept leaning on their captain.
Knight stayed planted around the crease, hunting the next bounce.
With just over two minutes left in regulation, the puck finally found her.
Laila Edwards put a shot through traffic and Knight tipped it home to tie it.
That goal wasn’t just a lifeline. It was the record.
It gave Knight her 15th Olympic goal and 33rd Olympic point, the most ever by a U.S. women’s player at the Winter Games.
She moved past Jenny Potter’s 32-point mark, and also cleared the previous U.S. Olympic goals standard of 14 shared by Natalie Darwitz and Katie King.
Then the game went where this rivalry loves to live, overtime.
The building got louder, the shifts got shorter, and every touch felt like it could end it.
Hilary Knight drags Team USA to gold
If you’re a Team USA fan, you know the feeling, relief mixed with a little disbelief that she keeps doing this in the biggest moments.
In overtime, the Americans stayed aggressive instead of sitting back. They kept pushing pace, forcing Canada to defend while tired.
Megan Keller ended it 4:07 into 3-on-3 overtime, sealing a 2-1 win and sending the bench into a full-on sprint to the pile.
Knight finished the tournament with six points, and that late tip-in will be the clip that lives forever.
Records are great, but gold is the point, and Thursday in Milan she got both, with Canada staring right back at her.
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