USA's Golden Goal Scorer: 'I Thought, Why Not?'

Megan Keller's overtime goal against Canada to give Team USA the gold medal in women's hockey is one for the ages, writes Jason Gay at the Wall Street Journal. "It's a shifty sequence that will outlive Keller's career and will probably get mentioned by some current unknown phenom, 12 years from now, at some other Winter Games, of the day they saw Megan Keller stun Canada," he writes. Watch it here, or from different angles here. The 29-year-old took a long pass, deked a Canadian player along the boards, then slipped it by the goalie. The thing is, nobody, not even Keller, who plays defense, can remember her making such a move before.

"I thought, 'Why not?' she recounted later. "Let's take a chance." Teammate and captain Hillary Knight—who scored a clutch goal late in regulation to send the game into overtime—quickly came up with a name for the move, per the New York Post: "The Megan Keller." Another American player, Laila Edwards, said, "I thought it was Connor McDavid out there," referring to the NHL phenom. However, she then corrected herself to say Auston Matthews—substituting an American player for a Canadian one. But it was Team USA's Abbey Murphy who might have summed it all up perfectly, per the Athletic:

• "You got a captain out there, Hilary Knight, who's destined to put a puck in the net sooner or later at big moments. She's a leader on and off the ice, and for Megan Keller to (score) in overtime, I mean, everyone just played their role perfectly and holy, holy s---."