O say can you see America catching up to Canadian ice hockey supremacy?

Whether it's on the ice or in the trophy cabinet, American hockey players have been rapidly melting Canada's long-time dominance of the sport.

When Team USA and Canada meet on the TD Garden rink in Boston Thursday night in the championship game of the inaugural 4 Nations Face-off (8 p.m. ET on ESPN), it'll mark one more instance of the neighbors appearing to be near-equals in the sport invented north of the border.