Team Canada defender Renata Fast remembers a time when she really didn’t look forward to playing against the Americans. And it wasn’t because the women’s hockey powerhouses make up one of the most — if not the most — intense rivalries in all of sport. Fast likes the intensity. It was the thought of what could go wrong that irked her. “It used to be scary, to be honest with you,” the 27-year-old from Hamilton, Ont., told Sportsnet in a recent interview. “The first year and a half that I was with the national team, playing against the Americans was the hardest challenge ever. It just seemed like, if we got down a goal we were never coming back.” But the tables have turned for Fast, and for her team. As Canada gets set to meet Team USA to close out Olympic round-robin play — the puck drops Monday (today) at 11:10 p.m. ET — the Canadians come into the game with some recently hard-earned confidence. It’s something you could safely assume about a team averaging nearly 10 goals per game ...