The women’s ice hockey gold medal game at the Milan Cortina Olympics will, unsurprisingly, be between the U.S. and Canada, the two teams who were projected as favorites to reach this stage of the Games.
This is no unfamiliar matchup, either. Since 1998, when women’s ice hockey was first introduced as an Olympic sport, the U.S. and Canada have faced off in the gold medal game six times, with Thursday’s game set to be the seventh. It’s the biggest rivalry in international women’s hockey, and these two sides are plenty familiar with one another.
