The most intense and storied rivalry in hockey returns to the ice during tonight’s Winter Olympics action (11:10 p.m. ET) when Team USA and Canada face off in their final women’s tournament preliminary round game.
Both teams are 3-0 in group play. They have combined to outscore their opponents 47-5. They’re on another plane of existence from the rest of international women’s hockey, and that’s been the case for decades.
Since 1998, when the Olympics began its women’s hockey tournament, Canada has won gold four times (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) while the U.S. has won twice, in 1998 and in 2018, when its 3-2 shootout victory ended a run of two straight gold-medal game losses to Canada.
The dominance of these teams extends past the Olympics. Since 1990, when the International Ice Hockey Federation held its first official women’s world championship, either the U.S. or Canada has won that tournament. In fact, there have only been two championship games since 1990 — the 2006 Olympic final in…
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