USA hockey beat Canada — once more.
The USA secured a 6-2 win over Canada in Sunday’s Paralympics sled hockey gold medal recreation on the 2026 Winter Video games in Italy, turning into the primary nation to say 5 consecutive Paralympic titles.
The U.S. additionally turned the primary nation to drag off a clear sweep of all three Paralympic and Olympic hockey occasions at a single match.
It simply so occurs that each one three got here at Canada’s expense.
Main the cost for the Individuals was Jack Wallace, who delivered a hat-trick and an help in a exceptional efficiency.
“This workforce is so particular,” the three-time Paralympian informed NBC’s Andrea Joyce after the sport. “We love one another. This workforce grinded it out, a gritty f—ing recreation. It was unbelievable. I like these guys a lot.”
Kayden Beasley, Declan Farmer (assisted by Wallace) and Brody Roybal rounded out the scoring for the U.S., whereas Canada’s Liam Hickey netted each targets for the Nice White North.
The USA breezed by the Paralympic match, swiftly dispatching Italy, Germany, China, and at last the Czech Republic (Czechia) en path to the ultimate.
There, the Individuals met a well-known foe of their North American rival and fellow sled hockey powerhouse — towards whom they’ve met in three straight Paralympic finals and eight consecutive world championship finals.
In entrance of a fiery, record-setting attendance of 11,500, Workforce USA fended off 13 of 15 photographs on aim from the Canadians — probably the most the U.S. goalies had seen all match — and steadily pulled forward for a hard-fought victory over its heated rival.
The Paralympic triumph punctuated a clear sweep for the Individuals throughout all three hockey occasions at Italy’s video games — with the lads’s and ladies’s Olympic groups each beating Canada, 2-1, in time beyond regulation final month.
Megan Keller sunk the golden aim for the ladies’s workforce on Feb. 19 earlier than Jack Hughes lifted the lads’s squad to victory three days later.
