How to watch USA vs. Canada play for women’s hockey gold medal at 2026 Olympics

Women’s hockey at the Olympics keeps flirting with chaos, then snapping back to its oldest habit: the United States and Canada in the final, again. The sport has used different formats since it debuted in 1998, but the ending has been stubborn. Thursday’s gold-medal game is the seventh Olympic title meeting between the neighbors and adversaries — their fifth straight Olympics colliding for gold. Canada is the defending champion after beating the United States 3-2 in Beijing in 2022, and the hist