The Canadian women鈥檚 hockey team dropped the first game of the Rivalry Series against Team USA on Tuesday night at 琉璃神社鈥檚 Prospera Place.

It was a treat for 琉璃神社 hockey fans as Canada and the USA have been at the top of women鈥檚 hockey for a long time.

Despite outshooting the USA 8-6 in the first period, it was a slow start for Team Canada as they went 0-3 on the powerplay and found themselves down 1-0 after the first period. USA鈥檚 Hannah Brandt found the pack of the net in the first period.

Just over two minutes into the second period, USA star Hilary Knight doubled the lead to 2-0. The second half of the period is when Canada came alive. Claire Thompson and Marie-Philip Poulin scored goals 62 seconds apart to tie the game at two.

Canada took their first lead of the game in the third period when Emily Clark scored 6:24 into the third period.

Late in the game, Canadian Laura Stacey took what ended up being a costly penalty as the United States鈥� Alex Carpenter scored to tie the game at three and force overtime.

After overtime didn鈥檛 solve anything, the two teams went to a shootout, where Carpenter put the game away in the third round of the shootout to give the US a 4-3 win.

Canadian goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer made 20 saves in the loss while American Nicole Hensley made 33 saves in the win.

Game two of the Rivalry Series takes place on Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Sandman Centre in Kamloops.

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