BEIJING — Hope you enjoyed that gold while you had it, Team USA.
Canada’s women’s hockey team lost the gold medal game in 2018 in a shootout. Team Maple Leaf made sure that wasn’t going to happen again this time around, thoroughly dominating the Americans in a 3-2 game that demonstrated that while these are by far the best two teams in the world, they’re not equals.
Team USA has reached the gold medal game in six of the last seven Olympics. Canada has reached that mark in all seven. The U.S. has won two of those gold medal games, the Canadians the other four (plus one more in 2006, when the U.