Canada earns Para ice hockey silver at Paralympic Winter Games 

MILAN, Italy — Canada lost 6-2 to the United States in the Para ice hockey gold medal game at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games. 

Jack Wallace had a hat trick as he lifted the Americans to their fifth straight gold medal. 

It was a third straight silver for Canada.

With the win, the United States took home hockey gold three times at Milano Cortina 2026: Para ice hockey,  women’s hockey, and men’s hockey. It marks the first time a country swept the Paralympic and Olympic hockey tournaments at one Games. 

All three American  teams beat Canada in the final.

Although silver is not the result the Canadians wanted, captain Tyler McGregor is proud of the team’s work at the tournament and has pulled some key learnings from the loss.

“I’m most proud of who they are, just who my teammates are, the type of people they are, the intentions and effort and the care that everyone shows up with and for each other. It is a special honour to be a part of this team and just to get to share this process with, even though it didn’t go our way. I love everybody that’s been a part of this.”

Canada’s head coach Boris Rybalka echoed McGregor’s sentiments.

“They battled, they competed, obviously they wanted to have that gold medal for Canada and for themselves, but at the end of the day we are very proud of their effort and how they played,” he said. 

Liam Hickey scored both Canadian goals and was a key factor in how close the game stayed through the first half.

“Obviously we didn’t get it done tonight and that’s extremely frustrating,” Hickey said. “I think this is the closest team I’ve ever been a part of. The new guys that came in gelled right away and have really worked hard to get into the positions they are in today.”

Declan Farmer, the tournament’s leading scorer, went to the box at the start of the second period to create Canada’s first real offensive chance. 

After a couple high-danger shots near the crease, Liam Hickey lifted a pass from Tyler McGregor to find the back of the net and tie the game with a power-play goal for Canada. 

“We showed a lot of resilience I think, obviously it’s not ideal to go down in the first period of a gold-medal game, but we pushed back and even into the third period we showed a lot of resilience, a lot of heart, a lot of Canadian grit,” McGregor said. 

Canada’s Corbin Watson stopped 20 shots, by far the most shots he’s seen all tournament. 

Nineteen-year-old Kayden Beasley capitalized on a defensive mistake that saw the puck get lost in front of the Canadians’ net to score the game’s first even-strength goal for the Americans.

Wallace scored once in each period while Farmer added his 15th goal of the tournament in the third.

Canada’s 15 shots on goal is by far the most any of the American goalies have faced all tournament. 

Coach Rybalka says the silver result will act as fuel in the years to come. 

“I know they’ll be ready, that’s the pride and that’s the Canadian heart.”