This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here. After being cancelled in 2020, played in a bubble in 2021 and moved to the summer again last year, the women's world hockey championship is finally returning to a normal time and place.
The tournament is back in its traditional early spring slot and will be played in front of hockey-loving crowds in Brampton, Ont., starting Wednesday. Here are a few things to know about the tournament: Canada rules women's hockey once again.
But the balance of power has shifted back toward Canada, which reclaimed the world title in 2021 in a Calgary bubble and retained it last summer in Denmark.
A few months earlier, Canada reclaimed the Olympic gold medal by defeating the Americans in the final in Beijing. Throw in the Canadians' dramatic comeback from down three games to none to win this season's best-of-seven Rivalry Series and it's clear: they are the undisputed queens of international women's hockey right now. Expect another Canada-U.S.