What's next for the Canadian women's soccer and hockey teams?

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Canada's two highest-profile women's national teams each played an important game last night, with mixed results. Here's a recap of those and a look at what's ahead for the Canadian women's soccer and hockey teams:

Soccer: Is the labour dispute derailing Canada's World Cup hopes?

The Canadian women's tumultuous trip to the SheBelieves Cup ended in disappointment last night with a 3-0 loss to Japan near Dallas. Playing under protest amid a bitter labour dispute with Canada Soccer, the reigning Olympic champions still had an outside shot to win the four-team round-robin tournament when they took the field. But the world's sixth-ranked team turned in a listless performance vs. No. 11 Japan, looking "emotionally, physically exhausted" and "very flat" in the words of coach Bev Priestman.

The result ended up not mattering after the top-ranked U.S. defeated No. 9 Brazil a few hours later to finish 3-0-0 and win the Cup for the fourth straight year. But, perhaps more importantly, the Canadians let slip a rare opportunity to sharpen themselves for this summer's Women's World Cup.

As the players have noted in their public campaign for parity with the men's national team — which at the SheBelieves Cup included wearing t-shirts with the words "Enough is Enough" and turning their warmups inside-out to hide the Canada Soccer logo — the Canadian women are not afforded many opportunities to face quality opponents. Canada Soccer has not even scheduled them a home friendly ahead of the World Cup.

The SheBelieves Cup was a chance for Canada to test itself against three highly ranked,