US women's hockey once again led by a shining Knight
FILE - Cammi Granato stands on center ice after being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame before an NHL game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Buffalo Sabres in Toronto, Nov. 6, 2010. Granato had never forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was not until years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Hilary Knight. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young, File)

FILE - Cammi Granato stands on center ice after being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame before an NHL game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Buffalo Sabres in Toronto, Nov. 6, 2010. Granato had never forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was not until years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Hilary Knight. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young, File)

Jan. 22, 2022 01:00 AM EST
FILE - United States' Hilary Knight looks on before a women's hockey game against the Canada, Oct. 22, 2021, in Allentown, Pa. Cammi Granato had never forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was not until years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Knight. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File)

FILE - United States' Hilary Knight looks on before a women's hockey game against the Canada, Oct. 22, 2021, in Allentown, Pa. Cammi Granato had never forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was not until years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Knight. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File)

Jan. 22, 2022 01:00 AM EST
Cammi Granato, a scout for the Seattle Kraken NHL Hockey team, speaks during the team's expansion draft event on July 21, 2021 in Seattle. Granato, who captained the 1998 United States team that beat Canada in Nagano to win the Winter Olympics' first women's hockey gold medal, once lent her stick and gloves to Hilary Knight at a hockey camp in the 1990s when Knight was 8 years old. Now Knight is preparing to compete in her fourth Winter Games and help the U.S. women's hockey team defend its Olympic title. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Cammi Granato, a scout for the Seattle Kraken NHL Hockey team, speaks during the team's expansion draft event on July 21, 2021 in Seattle. Granato, who captained the 1998 United States team that beat Canada in Nagano to win the Winter Olympics' first women's hockey gold medal, once lent her stick and gloves to Hilary Knight at a hockey camp in the 1990s when Knight was 8 years old. Now Knight is preparing to compete in her fourth Winter Games and help the U.S. women's hockey team defend its Olympic title. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Jan. 22, 2022 12:22 PM EST
Cammi Granato, second from left, a scout for the Seattle Kraken NHL Hockey team, speaks during the team's expansion draft event on July 21, 2021 in Seattle as Kraken general manager Ron Francis, right, and event hosts Dominic Moore, left, and Chris Fowler, second from right, look on. Granato, who captained the 1998 United States team that beat Canada in Nagano to win the Winter Olympics' first women's hockey gold medal, once lent her stick and gloves to Hilary Knight at a hockey camp in the 1990s when Knight was 8 years old. Now Knight is preparing to compete in her fourth Winter Games and help the U.S. women's hockey team defend its Olympic title. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Cammi Granato, second from left, a scout for the Seattle Kraken NHL Hockey team, speaks during the team's expansion draft event on July 21, 2021 in Seattle as Kraken general manager Ron Francis, right, and event hosts Dominic Moore, left, and Chris Fowler, second from right, look on. Granato, who captained the 1998 United States team that beat Canada in Nagano to win the Winter Olympics' first women's hockey gold medal, once lent her stick and gloves to Hilary Knight at a hockey camp in the 1990s when Knight was 8 years old. Now Knight is preparing to compete in her fourth Winter Games and help the U.S. women's hockey team defend its Olympic title. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Jan. 22, 2022 12:23 PM EST