VANCOUVER, British Columbia Canada pulled out a sudden death victory in the men ice hockey Sunday, its earn a record 14 gold medals, that matters most to this hockey-mad nation of 34 million.
After a spirited US team claws back from a 2-0 deficit, scored Canada's most famous players, Sidney Crosby, the winning goal on a passport from Jarome Iginla, one of the few from Canada's last gold medal team from 2002. Mr. Crosby threw stacked his mouth guard, gloves and stick in the air and his teammates in joy to him. The end result was 3-2.
European Pressphoto Agency Sidney Crosby takes the game winning shot for goal over U.S. goaltender Ryan Miller.On the page the U.S. team was, one which surprised youngest and most of the tournament. Far better than that - predicted most two weeks ago but again not to Canada in a gold-medal game, won the silver - after to hit lost in 2002.
After the game while his cheering people screamed large Canadian flags in the waved, Mr. Crosby, said, "it even real feel." "It feels like a dream."
The victory sealed, what Canada was an emotional Olympics, are embraced over the great nation in a way that some Olympics. The games were clouded by the death of a Georgian Luge athletes at first and then Canada stumble out of the gate, casting doubts that pan would his vaunted plans to win medals from.
But the local fans remained true to and from the second week, when the Canadian medals started stacking were exuberant. Norway and the Soviet Union divided before the record for gold medals in the play, 13.
Hockey victory wild, with the streets of major cities that with cars honking their horns and screaming crowds thronged celebrated fans in quite Canada on Sunday. In Vancouver that emotional for 17 days has been converted from a sleepy chic city on the Pacific, the capital of the country, fans paralyzed the city as you from bars and restaurants on the rainy Street flowed.
In the arena, applause fans the U.S. team, especially its stars goaltender Ryan Miller, who ended the tournament with the best goals - against average of every goalkeeper and was a major reason for Americans surprisingly do to the gold medal game. The team lost only one game in the tournament - Sunday - and had Canada 5-3, in a preliminary round.
The team silver medal bore the strategy of U.S. general manager Brian Burke. He had resistance of the temptation to recruit the most talented, highest-paid player, to offer America. Instead he chose player thought would be very different form of hockey played at the Olympics embrace - a game with a simplified text often won the team, the longest skating can hardest.
"We started a new trend with USA Hockey," the goalkeeper, Mr. Miller said after the match. "We felt be merit in this position as we."
Canada took the difficult road to the finals. Several years after lashing weakling Norway, 8-0, Canada shootout required are a 3-2-win a surprisingly hard Swiss team eke.
Then it hit its biggest stumble with the loss to the United States but it gains achieved crucial Russia squad touted Germany and one, then it hung on to make final on Sunday against the Slovakia.
The US team achieved almost first Sunday. Midway through the first period, goalkeeper Roberto Luongo, where it rested on the goal line slipped the puck see Canada Americans. Later during this period, sacks to make Canada's Jonathan Toews in a recovery from Mike Richards shot 1-0. Then it made to play Corey Perry 2-0 on a defect in the U.S. area and things started to look bleak for the Americans.
But Team USA bounced back with a gate to a 2-1, then brought to silence the partisan crowd with a scrappy goal of Zach Parise within the last 30 seconds, that the game into overtime sent.
Almost eight minutes in OT, Mr. Crosby forced the puck in a U.S. corner. A team USA clearing attempt failed, and Mr Iginla one quick pass to Ralph d. Crosby, who snatched the puck between Mr. Miller's legs sent.
Canada breathed out. When Defender Duncan Keith expressed it, "it's so much easier, as it is excitement."
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