USA thru to medal round in hockey

danmc77 said

The Swiss played real well in this tournament - took Crosby 2 shots in the SO for Canada to top 'em. I wouldn't call a US 2-0 shutout win over the Swiss "nearly an upset."

You guys up north need to quit with the excuses - Miller certainly did keep us in that game, but I'd say the 5 goals we scored is what won the game. Sorry, but no team, not even mighty Canada can win a game on scoring chances.

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In the Swiss game you guys had a goal that was reviewed and disallowed re-reviewed, first time I've ever seen a review of a review. It went in your favour and then you got an empty net goal, I would call that very, very near to an upset.

I'm not making excuses, did you even watch the game? Canada flat out dominated the game but Miller was incredible and Brodeur wasn't good at all. Plain and simple Miller won it for you and Brodeur lost it for us, if Miller would have been in goal for Canada and Broduer for the US, it would have been 8-2 for Canada. I don't look at the games with rose colored glasses, I call it the way I see it. If we had been outlplayed the way you were and won I would be the first one to say how lucky we were to have our goalie steal the show. If we do meet in the final and you outplay, outshoot, outchance us and lose I'll be here saying how lucky we were to win it. I sure won't be saying how much better our team was because we had the one and most important player winning it for us.

Having said all that, it's far from a done deal that we meet in the final, both teams have a tough semi to get through.