The Video Of Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson's Olympics Shootout Goal Is So Sick

On Thursday, Feb. 22, the U.S. women's hockey team won the gold medal in the sport at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, facing down their rivals, the Canadian team, and it was an incredible moment to behold. This was no "miracle on ice" — this was the culmination of a ton of hard work, practice, and dedication from the athletes on both teams. The final game ended in, literally, the most dramatic fashion possible for hockey, and you have to see the video of Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson's Olympics shootout goal.

A shootout happens in hockey when the game is tied after both regulation play and overtime. During regulation play, the U.S. was down 2-1 to Canada, their rival. With seven minutes left in the gold medal game, Monique Lamoureux-Morando scored to tie the game, sending it into overtime. During overtime, the score remained 2-2, so it came down to the shootout.

As the name indicates, a shootout is ridiculously high-pressure and intense. One by one, a player from each team faces down the opposing team's goalie and tries to score. It's a one-on-one battle until one team scores more than the other. The initial round of the shootout was five shots for each team — and both the U.S. and Canada scored two shots each, per The New York Times.

So then, under Olympic rules, it went to a sudden death round, meaning that whoever scored one more shootout goal than the other side won. That's when Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson took her place on center ice to make her shot.

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