🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Cup Of Hockey Final, Game 3
Centre Molson, Montréal 🇨🇦
Saturday, 14 September 1996

By 1996, the United States had replaced the Soviet Union / Russia as Canada’s principle international rivalry. In part this was because the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 had rendered the Russians more vulnerable and not as dominant. In part, the rivalry had been as political as it was sporting, so without the cloak of the Iron Curtain, the two countries weren’t nemeses any more.

And, in part, it was because of the emergence of the U.S. as a true hockey power. Canada had defeated the Americans — not the Soviets — in the 1991 Canada Cup, and the core American players from that team were now in their prime in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
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🇺🇸 United States 5-2 Canada 🇨🇦
World Cup Of Hockey Final, Game 2
Centre Molson, Montréal 🇨🇦
Thursday, 12 September 1996

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:39 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Suter, interference
05:13 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Coffey, hooking
07:06 – 🇺🇸 PP GOAL – LeClair (Suter, Modano)
08:47 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Deadmarsh, holding
09:23 – 🇨🇦 PP GOAL – Shanahan (Lindros)
18:52 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Amonte, holding
18:52 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Shanahan, high sticking
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