Thanks, I was wondering if they had benefited from the rule earlier in the tournament.
It isn’t a question of “benefitting” from the rule. No one assumes Canada “benefitted” from anything in the earlier match, and America didn’t “benefit” from the rule yesterday. It’s just the rule. Would it have come out differently if it was 5v5 overtime? Who knows. Canada certainly was only able to play to a tie 5v5 in regulation time.