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# PPP After Lunch: Gold Medal GDT
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/ppp-after-lunch-gold-medal-gdt/
- Published: 2026-02-19T17:30:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-19T17:30:27.000Z
- Description: It's Canada vs. USA time.
- Author: Species
- Tags: Game Coverage

*"Here we are, now and forever, we're the princesses of the Universe."*

It's that time again. Canada vs. USA for hockey gold. 

> “I would just stand super strong and I wouldn’t talk,” said U.S. Olympic gold medalist and Hockey Hall of Fame defender Angela Ruggiero. “You’re always trying to intimidate a little.”

> Canada and the U.S. played each other over a dozen times before the Nagano Games. More often than not, they stayed in the same hotels.

> Back then, the relationship between the players was so unfriendly that some Americans, like captain Cammi Granato, wouldn’t even step foot in an elevator with a Canadian.

Things are very different now that we have the PWHL, and before that more than a decade of a sort of women's pro-hockey, but I expect all that camaraderie to be forgotten for this gold medal game. This is what they signed up for. To win.

Here we go! Bring it on Sailor MPP!

GO CANADA GO!