Olympic viewing guide: Canada-U.S. women's hockey final highlights Day 13

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After a nail-biting day at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, we turn to Day 13.

More excitement is in store on the ice as women's hockey rivals Canada and the United States square off for the gold medal, while the Canadian women's curling team plays for a spot in the playoffs and Canada's men's curlers can clinch a medal with a win in the semifinals.

Plus, the gold is up for grabs in women's figure skating, U.S. speed skating star Jordan Stolz goes for his third title, and the Winter Olympics' newest sport debuts.

Let's get into all that in our daily viewing guide.

Women's hockey: Canada vs. the United States in the gold-medal game at 1:10 p.m. ET

Historically, this matchup has been too close to call. Over the past decade and a half, 12 of the 14 Canada-U.S. clashes in an Olympic or world-championship title game have been decided by one goal, including a whopping nine in overtime or a shootout. Canada won the Olympic gold in 2022 in Beijing with a 3-2 regulation victory over the U.S., and the Americans took the world championship in Czechia last year by beating Canada 4-3 in overtime.

Since then, though, the Americans have gained the clear upper hand in this rivalry, which is one of the most intense in all of sports. They swept this season's four-game Rivalry Series by a combined score of 24-7, then thrashed Canada 5-0 in their Olympic group-stage showdown last week. As a result, Thursday's gold-medal matchup no longer looks like the coin flip we've come to expect. In fact, oddsmakers now give the U.S. a better than 80 per cent chance of winning.

Having said that,