Hockey, 2010 Winter Olympics | featured news

Thousands of Canadians turned the streets of Vancouver into rivers of red on Sunday in jubilant celebration of the country's Olympic gold-medal win in men's ice hockey.

Canada's game. Canada's ice. Canada's gold. Again. Marie-Philip Poulin scored two goals, Shannon Szabados made 28 saves, and Canada rolled through its American rivals, 2-0, to win the gold medal in women's hockey for the third straight Olympics Thursday night in front of a raucous Vancouver crowd ringing cowbells and frantically waving thousands of maple leaf flags.

Zach Parise scored twice in the third period as the United States survived a scare Wednesday, beating Switzerland 2-0 in their quarterfinal men's hockey game Wednesday.

The American team avenged its 2006 Olympic loss against Sweden Monday with a 9-1 victory, and reached its third gold medal game in three Olympic tournaments.

Germany joined the United States at the top of the Winter Games medals table on Monday as Canada awoke to an Olympic-size hangover following their demoralizing loss to the United States men's ice hockey team.

A sign at Canada Hockey Place read, "This is our game." But the Americans came into Canada's home and stole it Sunday by posting their first Olympic win over Canada in 50 years on a 5-3 ...