The Vancouver Winter Olympics’ rolling snowball is now in the stage of reducing its momentum as it nears its closing ceremony. That speaks for the other sports played in this quadrecentennial sporting affair.The same cannot be said with the Men’s hockey tournament. Barely a week after the “minor miracle” win over hockey nation and host Canada, Team USA is now in the finals after causing Finland major headaches in the semifinals that Finnish Goaltender Mika Kipsussoff played no different than an aspiring limbless net minder from Chernobyl. The score was 6-1 with Patrick Kane scoring two goals-to which he said: “Would’ve been nice to get a couple more”.
In a perfect world, it should have been a Cold War affair between US and Russia exactly 30 years after Lake Placid. In the great world of spoilers, it’s going to be US-Canada. Looking at it at the marquee, it’s a not that bad either as it brings sentiments almost 5 decades after Squaw Valley.
The rivalry even made a story of its own in this very tournament. With the loss to the US during the preliminaries, team Canada Lego-locked its cojones together (benching Brodeur for Luongo the next game) and made the Russians collectively resemble Jaromir Jagr during that isolated cross-check fate by Alexander Ovechkin.
If the US wins, I’ll go call it an upset. It doesn’t matter to me if they’ve beaten them before, doesn’t matter if you’re country is mostly the home of the NHL , when you’re up against a proud superpower hockey nation in their home ice, a win is an upset.
Even video games will tell you the same.
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