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Team USA Wins With Canadian Style
by Paul on 02/22/10 at 08:41 AM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Against the U.S., however, Crosby and Brodeur both had games that won’t make it into their home highlight reels, leaving Canada with all kinds of tricky questions heading into the Germany match.
That’s Olympic hockey. Heroes one day, heels the next.
Still, Canada has one ironclad supporter – a surprising one.
“Canada, I personally believe, is the best team, with Russia right behind them,” U.S. head coach Ron Wilson said in his post-game assessment.
What Wilson pointed out, you see, was that Canada “probably out-chanced us two to one” and that it was a classic case of Miller stealing a win that earned the Americans first place in their pool and a very helpful extra day’s rest.
Canadians from coast to coast might be blaming Babcock for his coaching, Brodeur for his goaltending and various Canadian players for their performances, but the fact was that the Americans won a game in the style that Canada used to use repeatedly in international circumstances, riding red-hot goaltending to wins it had no business recording.
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That’s two games Canada has lost to red hot goal tending, so at some point you have to wonder if it’s as much the goal tending they’re facing, or the shots and chances they’re getting. Whether they’re making the other goalie look a lot better than they have to, I don’t know.
Also, i understand it’s Crosby so he’ll get his name written the most, but it could have been anyone out there and they’d have been a minus 3 the way Brodeur, Pronger and Neidermayer were throwing the puck away.
Posted by Greg on 02/22/10 at 09:56 AM ET