Team USA and Team Canada Continue Women's Ice Hockey Rivalry This Sunday on NBCSN

Team USA and Team Canada continue their rivalry in women's ice hockey with a pair of exhibition games on NBCSN, beginning this Sunday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. ET at Xcel Energy Center from St. Paul, Minn. The two teams will meet again on NBCSN on Friday, Dec. 15, at 10 p.m. ET at SAP Center from San Jose, Calif.

This marks the fifth of eight pre-Olympic meetings between the U.S. and Canada this fall. Team Canada recently defeated Team USA, 5-1, on Oct. 25, at Agganis Arena in Boston, Mass. Team USA responded with a pair of victories against Team Canada in the Four Nations Cup in November in Florida.

The U.S. women's national team is highlighted by two-time Olympic silver medalist Hilary Knight, Brianna DECKER and Amanda Kessel, and returns 12 members from the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team. Team USA won the first-ever gold medal in women's ice hockey in Nagano in 1998, and has won silver in three of the last four Games. The United States and Canada have faced each other in four of the five Olympic gold-medal games, including in Sochi, when Canada defeated the U.S., 3-2, in overtime.

Since the introduction of the IIHF women's world championship in 1990 and the inclusion of women's ice hockey on the Olympic program in 1998, Canada and the United States have played for gold at every major tournament except the Torino Olympics, when the U.S. was upset by Sweden in the semifinal. Canada has won 13 of the gold-medal meetings and the U.S. has won nine times.

Gord Miller (play-by-play), Olympic gold medalist A.J. Mleczko (analyst) and Leila Rahimi (reporter), co-host of NBC Sports Chicago's "In The Loop," will call both matchups in St. Paul and San Jose.

Date	Coverage	Network	Time (ET)
Sun., Dec. 3	Team USA vs. Team Canada	NBCSN	4 p.m. (LIVE)
Fri., Dec. 15	Team USA vs. Team Canada	NBCSN	10 p.m. (LIVE)

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