🗽 Captain America.
👸 The queen of hockey.
🐐 The G.O.A.T. 

It's dealer's choice when it comes to how you describe superhero Hilary Knight.

However, she now has TWO titles that are indisputable: all-time leading Olympic goal scorer in U.S. women's hockey history, and all-time Olympic points leader in U.S. women's hockey history.

Knight scored the historic point — her 15th career goal and 33rd career point — during the United States' gold medal matchup against Canada on Thursday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The goal came late in the third period with the U.S. trailing their rivals, 1-0.

The childlike excitement is something that has never faded for Knight. It's been part of her aura ever since she stepped onto Olympic ice for the first time at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

"I felt like a kid in the candy shop," Knight said during an interview with NBC Olympics in June 2025. "I feel like I slept with a smile on my face permanently at the Olympics. And every day I woke up, I was like 'This is the best day ever.'"

Knight scored her first Olympic goal during the Games in Vancouver and now, 16 years later, as she competes in her final Olympics, she's scored more than any other American in Olympic history.

While the captain deserves to take a bow, we all know it won't last long, as Knight is on an absolute mission to finish on her terms, at the top of her Olympic game, with a gold medal around her neck.

Canada's current captain Marie-Philip Poulin is the all-time women's Olympic goals leader with 20. Poulin broke Canadian Hall of Famer Hayley Wickenheiser's record of 18 during the Games.

Knight previously tied the record held by retired U.S. players Natalie Darwitz and Katie King in Team USA's win over Finland on Saturday. 

"I had no idea," Knight said after tying the record. "I just love scoring, and that pure elation of finding the back of the net. It’s a little-kid moment. When you score, it’s pure excitement. Those are legendary players and just to be in the same sentence as them is super special," she added.

Now, it's safe to say she's officially a legend in a class (and a sentence) all her own.