USA Para ice hockey beat Canada 6-2 on Sunday morning to win its fifth consecutive Paralympic gold medal, the first time any team in Olympic or Paralympic history has won five straight in the sport. The game was played at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in front of a record crowd, with Jack Wallace scoring three goals and an assist, teenager Kayden Beasley adding a fourth, and Declan Farmer and Brody Roybal closing it out.

Goalkeeper Griffin LaMarre finished the tournament with an 85.71% save percentage, the highest of any goaltender at these Games. Defenseman Josh Pauls became the only player alive who can say he won five consecutive Paralympic hockey gold medals.

The last time Canada won Paralympic hockey gold was Turin 2006, the only other time the Winter Games were held in Italy. They came back to this country 20 years later and played USA twice for gold. USA won both.

Five Straight

Before these Games, the USA Para ice hockey team was described as the four-time defending champion going for an unprecedented fifth. The result came through across four games: USA outscored opponents 46-5 in the tournament. Farmer broke his own records for most goals (14) and most points (24) in a single Paralympic Games, adding a hat trick in each preliminary game. In the final, it was never close after the second period.

Canada's Olympic men's program won four consecutive gold medals before losing that streak. So did the Soviet Union's men's team. So did Canada's Olympic women. No program in Olympic or Paralympic hockey history had won five straight. USA Para ice hockey did.

Earlier in these Games, the USA Olympic men's program beat Canada for gold. The USA Olympic women's program beat Canada for gold. The Para team completed the sweep. Three hockey tournaments at the same venues, three finals against Canada, three gold medals for the United States in the same year.

Nine Days

28 of 55 nations didn't march in the opening ceremony parade at the Verona Arena on March 6, the largest walkout in Paralympic Games history. The competition ran alongside all of it regardless. When these Games close tonight, the United States will have finished with 12 gold medals and China with 14, and a set of individual performances that won't be easy to rank.

Laurie Stephens carried the American flag into the Verona Arena at the Opening Ceremony, her sixth and final Games, both of them held in Italy. Kendall Gretsch won biathlon gold on Day 1. Jake Adicoff went four for four in cross-country skiing, winning every event he entered across nine days. Sydney Peterson swept her events: three golds in cross-country. Oksana Masters collected five medals at her sixth Winter Games, adding to a career that started in Vancouver 2010 and has produced a podium finish at every Games since. Noah Elliott and Kate Delson won banked slalom gold on the same afternoon, both snowboarders, both American, both on the top step within hours of each other.

Beyond the USA: Austria's Veronika Aigner won four golds. China's Jiayun Cai swept all three para biathlon standing events. Brazil's Cristian Ribera won silver in cross-country sitting, the first Winter Paralympic medal in Brazilian history and the first by any tropical, Latin American, or South American country. Italy, competing at home, finished fourth in the gold medal standings with a record number of podium finishes. Kazakhstan won its first-ever Paralympic gold.

Ukraine boycotted the opening ceremony march and finished seventh in the final medal table with 17 total medals, third in silvers behind only China and the United States.

Tonight in Cortina

The Closing Ceremony begins at 3:30 PM ET at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium, a venue that hosted wheelchair curling this week and was the site of the 1956 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. The theme is "Italian Souvenir." Italian electronic act Planet Funk and singer-songwriter Arisa perform. The Paralympic cauldrons in Milan and Cortina, lit on March 6, are extinguished tonight. The Agitos flag is lowered.

The next Winter Paralympics go to the French Alps, running March 1-10, 2030, the 15th edition of the Games and the first held in France since Albertville 1992.

Watch the closing ceremony on CNBC and Peacock.