For almost 58 minutes on Thursday night in Milan, Hockey Canada was getting ready to serve its doubters a big, heaping plate of told-you-so. The women’s hockey team, the one that was too old, too slow, too full of veterans who couldn’t keep up with the fresh-faced American college kids, had been doing exactly that. The pre-Olympic assurances from leaders like general manager Gina Kingsbury and head coach Troy Ryan, who insisted that they brought the best Canadians available and that all those veterans would make the difference in the light and heat of a gold-medal game, were looking...