The Canadian women's hockey team had a bad change in the 3rd period to allow the tying goal. The team struggled to put together any decent offence setup in the 3rd period and overtime. And while the shootout might have been Canada's best hope, their effort wasn't enough.
For the first time since 1998, Canada wins silver in women's hockey, not gold. The U.S. win was 3-2 in the shootout.
That brings the Canada medal count to 22 medals: 9 gold, 6 silver, and 7 bronze.
Cassie Sharpe won gold in the Freestyle Skiing Ladies' Halfpipe with a best score of 95.80. Brady Leman took gold in the Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross.
Kaillie Humphries and Phylicia George won bronze in the Women's Bobsleigh with a time of 3:22.89. The difference between 1st and 4th place was .52 seconds.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir gave their fans and Olympic watchers something to behold in the free skate portion of the ice dance as the Canadian duo won the gold medal with an overall score of 206.07.
The 122.40 point total in the free skate set to Moulin Rouge topped their previous best of 118.33 set at December's Grand Prix final.
Virtue and Moir needed to do as well as they did because the French duo of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron scored 123.35 in the free skate to Moonlight Sonata.
Virtue and Moir scored 83.67 in the short dance. Papadakis and Cizeron scored 81.93 in the short dance, which was affected by Papadakis experiencing a wardrobe malfunction. The overall French score of 205.28 temporarily set a world record.
Virtue and Moir are now the most decorated Olympic figure skaters. They took gold in this category in 2010 in Vancouver and now in 2018. They have 3 gold medals in total, with the team gold medal in figure skating earlier in this Olympics. The duo won silver medals in the ice dance and team event in 2014 in Sochi.
Sweden's Gillis Grafstrom, Soviet skater Irina Rodnina, and Norway's Sonja Henie each won 3 gold medals.
Virtue and Moir will pay tribute to Gord Downie, skating to the Tragically Hip's Long Time Running at the gala skate airing in North America on Saturday night at 7:30 pm Eastern.
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Defenseman Maxim Noreau fired an intense shot off a clean face-off for Canada's lone goal against Finland in the quarterfinals in men's hockey. Ben Scrivens and later Kevin Poulin combined for the shutout in the 1-0 win over Finland.
Germany will be the semifinal opponent after knocking off #1 seed Sweden 4-3 in overtime. The Germans were up 2-0 and 3-1 before the Swedes tied the game forcing the extra period. Germany needed 90 seconds of extra time for the 4-3 winner.
Finland had advanced to the quarterfinals getting past South Korea with a 5-2 win.
The Olympic Athletes from Russia and Czech Republic are in the other semifinal. The Czechs only scored 1 goal in the shootout with the United States in the quarterfinals, but 1 was enough.
Ben Scrivens is the top Canadian goalie but suffered an injury as Veli-Matti Savinainen of Finland was propelled into the crease by Canadian Eric O'Dell. Scrivens tried to stay in the game but gave way to Poulin at 4:17 of the 2nd period. Scrivens had 6 saves while Poulin had 15 saves. Poulin did shutout South Korea in his only Olympics start.
Germany has won 3 straight games in extra time since going 0-2 to start the preliminary round. The Canada-Germany game will be Friday morning in North American at 7 am Eastern.
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The 2018 Winter Olympics Canada women's curling team became the first Canadian curling team to not reach the semifinals. The comeback after the 0-3 start looked strong, but the women's team needed to win the last 2 matches and hope for help. Rachel Homan and her squad were up 5-4 after the 9th end. But Great Britain picked off 2 in the 10th end for the 6-5 win.
The Canadian women's team finished 4-5.
In men's curling, Canada faces the United States in a semifinal match this morning. Switzerland and Sweden play in the other semifinal. Canada will play for gold with a win.
photo credit: CBC Sports
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