Like a shock to the system, hockey at the Olympics goes from nobody getting eliminated in group play to a single-elimination knockout round until one team is left standing. It's Game 7 every time. “The anxiety just goes up a little bit,

Canada has defeated Switzerland 2-1 in the women’s hockey semifinal at the Milan Cortina Olympics to set up a gold-medal rematch with the United States on Thursday.

Team USA has asserted its dominance over Canada repeatedly in the last 12 months.