Canada's best players in women's hockey get one last chance to forge chemistry, and beat the archrival United States, before the Olympic Games.

Canada and the U.S. clash Wednesday and Saturday at Edmonton's Rogers Place to complete a four-game Rivalry Series.

The Americans took the first two games 4-1 in Cleveland and 6-1 in Buffalo, N.Y.

Those were gaudy scores considering one of the most storied rivalries in women's sport usually produces games decided by one goal, often in overtime.

Winning in Edmonton is important, says head coach Troy Ryan, but there are other considerations with February's Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy, on the horizon, and the Professional Women's Hockey League that didn't exist four years ago.

"You don't want to have results like that, but there's p

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