USA vs. Canada Gold Medal Game (SPOILERS)

[melissa]

holy shit!!! i am in love with joe sakic!!!

[Al DeFlorio]

And brother Bob, too.

[tml5]

What a game!

I think Richter actually got his stick on the Lemieux missed opportunity and deflected it wide and high.  At least that's the way the replay of the goal looked, although it wasn't the best angle.

It didn't matter anyway, Canada still won.  Kudos to Canada on a game well played.  It was nice to see all the emotion on the Canadian team when time expired.  I thought Brodeur was going to jump up on the crossbar and start dancing.

[Al DeFlorio]

I thought the same thing, Tom, on the Lemieux "miss."  Otherwise, he'd have had to shoot it sideways.

Nice to see Joe and his little guy getting the gold medal together.

[melissa]

want to apologize for my overexcessive use of a certain profane word. chalk it up to excitement and an overemotional state. was very impressed with the way both teams played and was happy to see Joe out there sharing his gold medal moment with his child.

[melissa]

In this article about Gretzky Nieuwy with his child gets a mention. kinda nice that he was singled out near the beginning of the article. gotta love the cornell connection. hope he returns to the alumni game this year!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/715312.asp

[melissa]

ok. one last find. thought that this was funny ( tho it might possibly be true!)

       Before the opening faceoff, Brendan Shanahan, a Canadian by birth and a Detroit Red Wing by trade, said there wouldn't be a single car on a road anywhere back home.
       "And if there was," he added, "it will probably have a satellite dish attached to the roof."

[CUlater \'89]

Didn't you know that Bill Cleary was regarded as the best US hockey player ever for a long, long, long, long, long, long, long time?  And that it was an anti-American bias within the NHL that kept him out of the league (plus some personal reasons on his part)?  He was so good, even the Soviet players were impressed.

[cbuckser]

A CP photographer took a great photo of Joe and Tyra Nieuwendyk admiring the gold medal.

http://www.faceoff.com/photos/fullview.html?pic=200202243087652-F.jpg

[Al DeFlorio]

The Cleary brothers, along with John Mayasich, were added to the roster just days before the tournament started.  The rest of the team threatened not to play if the new guys were added, but Jack Riley just faced them down.  He knew they had no chance without the scoring punch the three would add.  (Bill Cleary finished with six goals and six assists--figuring in 12 of the team's 29 goals.)

Mayasich had played at Minnesota in the '50s, scoring 144 goals and 154 assists in 111 games.  His number was retired at UMinn four years ago.  Ned's 1954 RPI team beat Mayasich's Minnesota team in OT for the NCAA championship.

The last player cut from that 1960 team was, curiously enough, Herb Brooks.

[Greg Berge]

Oh man, that pic of Joe and Tyra is CUTE!