Canada and the United States have faced each other in the gold medal game of six of seven

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s since the beginning of international play. Only a few of Canada's and the U.S.'s losses have been to teams outside their rivalry. Canada currently leads the head-to-head with 103 Canadian wins vs 78 American wins. Canada also leads in Gold medals with 31 vs 21 for the Americans.

History

After an American victory over Canada at the

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, the Canadian Olympic team won the next four gold medals over the U.S. (the exception being

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where Canada defeated Sweden for gold and U.S. defeated Finland for bronze) until

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, when the U.S. ended a 20-year gold medal drought defeating Canada in a shootout. Canada once again claimed Olympic gold over the U.S. at the 2022 Olympics. However, at the World Championships, Canada won the first 8 straight gold medals from 1990 to 2004. From 2005 to 2019 the U.S. has dominated winning 9 of the 11 World Championships, defeating Canada eight times (the exception being

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where the U.S. won gold defeating Finland, who upset Canada in their semi-final match). Since 2020, Canada has won 3 of the last 4. At the

, Canada and the U.S. have faced each other in every gold medal game (except 2001 when the U.S. withdrew due to the September 11 attacks and 2013 where Canada won gold defeating Finland and the U.S. won bronze defeating Sweden). Between 1996 and 2010, Canada won 12 of 15 and from 2011 to 2018, the U.S. won 6 of the 8. The tournament has not been played since the 2018 edition. The longest Gold medal streak is tied at 9. The Canadian streak lasting from 1998 to 2002, was broken by U.S.'s Gold at the

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. The American streak lasting from 2015 to 2019, was broken by Canada's Gold at the 2021 World Championship. The longest win streak, eight games, by the Americans was broken by Canada's win in the gold medal game of the

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Head to Head Record

Overall

''Canada''
Regulation Wins 78 + Overtime Wins 17 + Shootout Wins 8 = 103

''United States''
Regulation Wins 58 + Overtime Wins 10 + Shootout Wins 10 = 78

1 Tie

Gold Medal Games

''Canada''
Regulation Wins 21 + Overtime Wins 8 + Shootout Wins 2 = 31

''United States''
Regulation Wins 12 + Overtime Wins 4 + Shootout Wins 5 = 21

Game Results

Results of Tournaments

Medal Tables

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.'' ''IIHF World Women's Championships''
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.'' ''Four Nations Cup''
''Accurate as of 2018 4 Nations Cup.''

References

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