Lemieux scored to win the tournament for Canada; the play is widely regarded as one of the most memorable plays in Canadian international competition.
Since 2002, winners from the Canadian national competition have been competing in the international challenge.
Losers include natural resource-based industries, which already face formidable Canadian competition and could face more as American import bars are cut.
Such companies did not want Canadian competition to their parent companies' product.
Top students in certain other top Canadian competitions are also given invitations.
The song went on to be featured in 2011 in the fourth season of the Canadian competition, during the third week of the competition.
But greater Canadian competition could hurt the American natural resource industries.
She began playing the game at age 5, and honed the strategic elements of her game by watching Canadian curling competitions on television.
In Washington, uranium producers want a big aid package as shelter against Canadian competition.
But resources industries anticipate more intensive Canadian competition.