With one last flash of skill, the United States won gold on Thursday in the women’s hockey final at the 2026 Winter Games. But the Canadians put in a performance that surely won hearts.
On balance, the gold medal might have gone to the better team – the team that had, after all, won the previous five games against Canada by a combined total of 29-7. But on this night in Milan, the gold medalists were mostly second best to their greatest rivals.
Canadian pride in hockey is not something to be trifled with. And certainly not the pride of a Canadian team like this, brimming with gold medalists and world champions.
Why We Wrote This
In the Olympic women’s ice hockey final, Canada’s team, stacked with gold medalists…