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Canada pumped to face U.S. rival

Members of Team Canada don't want things any easier than usual at the women's World Hockey Championship.

So they'll be happy to hear the American women's team appears on the verge of settling its financial dispute with USA Hockey.

The U.S. team had threatened to boycott it's own World Championship, set to begin in Plymouth, Mich., Friday, in a dispute that's dragged on for months.

“We don't play the game for an easy path, an easy win,” Team Canada's Bailey Bram of St. Anne, Man., said, Tuesday. “It's always fun to play the USA, especially. All year we train for those games.