Canada won the first eight women's world hockey championships, but has claimed just two of the last seven.

The United States and Canada have met in the gold-medal games of all 15 tournaments to date.

All but one of Canada's recent defeats in the final were one-goal losses, but the fact is the U.S. has become harder to finish off in the world championship finale.

The two countries open the 2015 world championship Saturday in Malmo, Sweden, against each other in a Pool A game at 11 a.m. ET. Finland and Russia round out their group, with host Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Japan featured in Pool B.

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