NY Times · Sep 28, 2019
For Hockey’s Lamoureux Sisters, Perfect Ending Was Only a Pause
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The two biggest victories came in quick succession.
In March 2017, the twin sisters Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando helped secure better pay and benefits for themselves and their teammates on the United States women’s hockey team.
Less than a year later, at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Lamoureux sisters scored the final two goals of a comeback victory in the gold medal game against Canada. Jocelyne’s, a deceptive pullback that gave the Americans a win in a shootout, was arguably one of the most important goals in women’s hockey history.
They had crafted — on and off the ice — the perfect denouement to their careers as hockey players.