‘So much hope’ as Team Canada goes for Olympic gold in women’s hockey
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In seven Canada/U.S. Olympic gold medal games, Canada has won five of those games. On the other hand, the U.S. has won seven straight games against their neighbours in the north.
Canada and the U.S. are set to battle on Thursday for the Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey for the first time since the launch of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL).
The high-profile showdown is one that experts say will mark a new chapter for women’s hockey, as fans get the chance to watch the sport on a global scale.
Cheri Bradish, a sport business professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, said that while “the PWHL has a global footprint, (it) really is a North American property.”
“What will be really interesting to track now is this global stage, where the Olympics will take the PWHL global in a different way.”
Thursday’s gold medal game will mark the seventh time in eight Olympic gold medal matchups that Canada and the U.S. battle each other for the top medal.
Since 1987, the U.S. and Canadian women’s hockey teams have played each other 194 times between the Winter Olympics, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) championships, the Four Nations Cup and the Rivalry Series.
The matchups are often labelled as one of the biggest and fiercest rivalries in sports, with the margin of defeat often only by one goal between each country.
In those seven Olympic gold medal games, Canada’s women’s team has won five of them.
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