Less than a month after the gold-medal game at the Beijing Olympics, Canada and the United States are facing off. Again.
Will the stakes be a little lower in Pittsburgh on Saturday (4 p.m. Eastern, TV: Sportsnet One in Canada, NHL Network in U.S., AT&T SportsNet in Pittsburgh)? Sure, but this is one of the best rivalries in sports. Every game is compelling.
The big names from each roster — Marie-Philip Poulin, Hilary Knight, Sarah Fillier, Sarah Nurse, et al — are in the lineup. An added wrinkle is the growing momentum for a pro league that has the support of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association and NHL teams alike, fueled by an Olympic final that was watched by 3.54 million people in the U.S. and Canada’s most-viewed event of on CBC.
“I think there’s such a message behind these women are coming together in a difficult time, right? Like the wounds are still fresh,” Jayna Hefford, lead consultant for the PWHPA, told The Athletic. “They’re coming together because of something so much bigger, which is what they’ve always been doing, but this is a true show of solidarity to do it three weeks out of the games.”
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