2026 Olympics

[imafrshmn]

Canada women eke over the finish line to beat Switzerland 2-1 in the semis, making 2 Poulin goals in the second period stand up.

Meanwhile USA cruise into the gold medal game with a 5-0 pasting of Sweden, looking every bit as hungry, confident, and dangerous as you would expect.

So it is, once again, a Canada-USA olympic final. Team Canada will be trying to conjure up all the old magic, but may find it very difficult to impose their will on this game with their aging core who cannot keep up with USA's track meet. Their head coach seems to be lacking ways to find them a psychological edge--things looked very nervy and disjointed in the third against the Swiss.

[stereax]

Canada women eke over the finish line to beat Switzerland 2-1 in the semis, making 2 Poulin goals in the second period stand up.

Meanwhile USA cruise into the gold medal game with a 5-0 pasting of Sweden, looking every bit as hungry, confident, and dangerous as you would expect.

So it is, once again, a Canada-USA olympic final. Team Canada will be trying to conjure up all the old magic, but may find it very difficult to impose their will on this game with their aging core who cannot keep up with USA's track meet. Their head coach seems to be lacking ways to find them a psychological edge--things looked very nervy and disjointed in the third against the Swiss.

And in either case, a Cornellian gets gold!

[Chris '03]

Canada women eke over the finish line to beat Switzerland 2-1 in the semis, making 2 Poulin goals in the second period stand up.

Meanwhile USA cruise into the gold medal game with a 5-0 pasting of Sweden, looking every bit as hungry, confident, and dangerous as you would expect.

So it is, once again, a Canada-USA olympic final. Team Canada will be trying to conjure up all the old magic, but may find it very difficult to impose their will on this game with their aging core who cannot keep up with USA's track meet. Their head coach seems to be lacking ways to find them a psychological edge--things looked very nervy and disjointed in the third against the Swiss.

I've seen some online discontent about TOI on team Canada and how the players who play for Toronto in the PWHL are being overused.

It's felt like this was very much USA's gold to lose coming out of the rivalry series and nothing in the past week has suggested otherwise. MPP's injury didn't help matters.

[imafrshmn]

Canada women eke over the finish line to beat Switzerland 2-1 in the semis, making 2 Poulin goals in the second period stand up.

Meanwhile USA cruise into the gold medal game with a 5-0 pasting of Sweden, looking every bit as hungry, confident, and dangerous as you would expect.

So it is, once again, a Canada-USA olympic final. Team Canada will be trying to conjure up all the old magic, but may find it very difficult to impose their will on this game with their aging core who cannot keep up with USA's track meet. Their head coach seems to be lacking ways to find them a psychological edge--things looked very nervy and disjointed in the third against the Swiss.

I've seen some online discontent about TOI on team Canada and how the players who play for Toronto in the PWHL are being overused.

It's felt like this was very much USA's gold to lose coming out of the rivalry series and nothing in the past week has suggested otherwise. MPP's injury didn't help matters.

This is probably a fair criticism of Troy Ryan. He would have more familiarity with his Scepters players and trust in their chemistry. But it's a tough job, especially this year with no centralization to really get the team into shape. The Rivalry Series was a nightmare from a Canadian coaching perspective. Probably the biggest curse of the olympics is the heaping scrutiny of the segment of Canadian hockey fans who otherwise don't care about women's hockey at all but feel entitled (thinking about your typical Leafs fans).

[underskill]

We are not entitled. We are just bitter.

[Weder]

Canada women eke over the finish line to beat Switzerland 2-1 in the semis, making 2 Poulin goals in the second period stand up.

Meanwhile USA cruise into the gold medal game with a 5-0 pasting of Sweden, looking every bit as hungry, confident, and dangerous as you would expect.

So it is, once again, a Canada-USA olympic final. Team Canada will be trying to conjure up all the old magic, but may find it very difficult to impose their will on this game with their aging core who cannot keep up with USA's track meet. Their head coach seems to be lacking ways to find them a psychological edge--things looked very nervy and disjointed in the third against the Swiss.

I've seen some online discontent about TOI on team Canada and how the players who play for Toronto in the PWHL are being overused.

It's felt like this was very much USA's gold to lose coming out of the rivalry series and nothing in the past week has suggested otherwise. MPP's injury didn't help matters.

This is probably a fair criticism of Troy Ryan. He would have more familiarity with his Scepters players and trust in their chemistry. But it's a tough job, especially this year with no centralization to really get the team into shape. The Rivalry Series was a nightmare from a Canadian coaching perspective. Probably the biggest curse of the olympics is the heaping scrutiny of the segment of Canadian hockey fans who otherwise don't care about women's hockey at all but feel entitled (thinking about your typical Leafs fans).

And the Hockey Canada GM is also Toronto's GM. The lack of centralization might be part of it, though with the PWHL you're not going back to that model. (And I'm sure the NCAA teams were not sad to see it go, either.)