USA Routs Canada In Women's Olympic Hockey
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This week is a look back at how the United States earned retribution for finishing second to Canada at the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics by defeating its rival to win the 1933 IIHF World Championship. The roots of what evolved into a fierce United States-Canada hockey rivalry were planted when a 10-string motley collection of mostly New England stickhandlers stunned the favored Canadians at the 1933 IIHF World Championship in Prague,
Kelly Pannek was introduced to the USA-Canada rivalry on April 7, 2017, in Plymouth, Mich., in the gold medal game of the IIHF Women’s World Championship. Just 21 years old then, she looked over at the Canada bench and felt a surge of determination.