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Olympic women’s hockey preview: U.S. vs. Canada on NHL Network

By Helene Elliott
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The U.S. women’s national hockey team, which has revamped its program since its bronze-medal finish at the 2006 Turin Olympics, will be featured on the NHL Network on Friday facing archrival Canada as part of its 10-game, nine-city Qwest Tour leading up to the Vancouver Games.

The game, to be played at the Spokane (Wash.) Arena, will be televised at 7 p.m. Two-time Olympian and former Kings radio analyst Cammi Granato, now married to former King Ray Ferraro and mom to a nearly 3-year-old son, will provide commentary.

The NHL Network will televise three more games in the U.S. women’s pre-Olympic tour: Dec. 12 against Canada at Denver, Dec. 30 against Canada at St. Paul, Minn., and Feb. 4 against Finland at Colorado Springs, Colo.

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And congratulations to Team USA goaltender Jessie Vetter, winner of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s prestigious Sportswoman of the Year award. She’s the first hockey player to be honored.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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