Actually Amateur, the way the teams can achieve home-team advantage is not by goal differential. It goes by the world rankings, which canada is number one so they pretty much have home ice locked up. So there is no need to run up the score the way they did against a very young and inexperienced team like the Italians.
posted by btheat17 at 09:21 PM on February 14, 2006
Ruggiero: Canadian women should tone it down
Actually Amateur, the way the teams can achieve home-team advantage is not by goal differential. It goes by the world rankings, which canada is number one so they pretty much have home ice locked up. So there is no need to run up the score the way they did against a very young and inexperienced team like the Italians.