FOG BLOG SPORTS LOG: IIHF WOMEN'S HOCKEY FINAL, CANADIAN WOMEN'S HOCKEY BRINGS HOME THE GOLD:

Canada outlasts U.S. in overtime to strike gold at women's hockey world championship...Canada wins 3-2 in overtime with goal from Marie-Philip Poulin.....Canada claimed its first women's world hockey championship in almost a decade Tuesday when Marie-Philip Poulin scored the overtime winner in a 3-2 victory over the United States.

The Canadians won gold nine years after their last time atop the podium in 2012, and after not reaching the final for the first time in the history of the tournament in 2019.

The U.S had won five world titles in a row and eight of the previous nine.

Poulin scored at 7:22 of 3-on-3 overtime. Brianne Jenner passed the puck up to the captain whose shot went off the crossbar and into the net..