Courtney Birchard and Caroline Ouellette had beautiful goals, and the crowd inside SBP Arena was incredible, but it wasn’t enough for Canada’s National Women’s Team to overcome rival the United States, who stole the gold at women’s worlds.

Marie-Philip Poulin scored a pair of goals, while Jayna Hefford celebrated her 250th game with Canada’s National Women’s Team, during the red and white’s 8-1 win over Russia in semifinal action Monday night on SBP Arena ice at the 2013 women’s worlds.

There were many special “moments” in Canada’s win over Finland on Friday, with a record-breaking crowd of 18,013 watching Shannon Szabados earn the shutout, Bailey Bram score her first international goal and Meghan Agosta-Marciano notch a hat trick.

Canada’s National Women’s Team banked another preliminary win in women’s worlds action Wednesday, with Charline Labonté claiming the shutout and Marie-Philip Poulin putting four goals up on the scoreboard to make it 13-0 over Switzerland in Ottawa.

Rebecca Johnston and Catherine Ward scored in the third, while Jennifer Wakefield earned the game-winner in a shootout, to give Canada’s National Women’s Team the 3-2 edge over the United States on the opening day of women’s worlds in Ottawa.