Team Canada hockey showdowns in numbers: A look back at milestone moments
Global News
Canada has a chance to make history with another gold medal game, while the men have their eyes on making it to another gold medal game on Sunday, potentially meeting the U.S.
For Canadians, watching a hockey showdown against the U.S. can feel like a tale as old as time.
Preparing to turn off the work laptops — or at least, turning on another screen, too. Or maybe watching the game in another time zone means staying up late and knowing you’ll pay for it at work the next day.
Cuing up the gold medal hockey matchup between Canada and the U.S.
Pretending to … cough … work.
Canada and the U.S. are the only countries to win Olympic gold medals since women’s hockey was first introduced in the Olympics in 1998. The men’s tournament is still being written, as Canada looks to take on Finland on Friday in hopes of making it to the gold medal game on Sunday, potentially meeting the U.S. there.
But historically, the margin of defeat among both countries has been small, and the games are virtually guaranteed to be nail-biters as bigger geopolitical tensions sharpen the already intense rivalries between Team Canada and Team USA.
Here is a look back at some of the biggest milestone moments in past hockey showdowns between the two nations.
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