US Women's Hockey Team Clubbed the Canadians Like Baby Seals Yesterday. Oh, and They Made History.
They’re like the Huns sweeping
through the Western Roman Empire. Okay, maybe not the best example, but
the US women’s hockey team is dominating thus far at the Winter
Olympics in Milan, simply steamrolling its competition, including
arch-rival Canada. Yesterday, for the first time in the Olympics, we
shut them out 5-0. Still, the team and its coach, John Wroblewski, know
they’re still a long way away from getting the gold (via ESPN):
The Canadians Women’s hockey team had NEVER been shutout at the Olympics… before today 😳
The
U.S. women's hockey team so thoroughly overwhelmed rival Canada that
coach John Wroblewski issued a reminder that the 5-0 victory still left
the Americans a long way from Olympic gold.
"What's the hardest part of climbing the mountain?" the fourth-year coach asked.
"Getting
home," he said, answering his own question. "If you ever feel good
about climbing Mount Everest, it's the way down. Oh, you think you've
done something, that's when the mountain eats you up."
[…]
Team
USA swept all four preliminary-round games by a combined score of 20-1
and brought back memories of how a Canadian team in its prime rolled to
winning gold at the 2022 Beijing Games.
The tables have since turned, and it was evident on the score sheet from a roster featuring seven players still in college.
[…]
Canada
opened tentatively, and then ran into penalty problems minus its
longtime leader, Marie-Philip Poulin, who suffered a lower-body injury
in a 5-1 win over Czechia a day earlier.
Not having their so-called "Captain Clutch" in the lineup was still no excuse for coach Troy Ryan.
"We
just didn't play very well at all. Irresponsible with the puck, like
just poor puck management," Ryan said. "And it's not that there's not
confidence, but we played like we didn't have confidence with the
puck."
[…]
Aerin Frankel stopped 20 shots for her third
win and second shutout in her first Olympic tournament. And 36-year-old
captain Hilary Knight added an assist -- the 32nd Olympic point of her
career to tie Jenny Potter for most by a U.S. women's hockey player.
Aerin Frankel stopped 20 shots for her third win and second shutout in her first Olympic tournament
It was the first time any goaltender had ever ever shut out the Canadian women's team in the Olympicshttps://t.co/Wx7jErY3He
CNN’s Scott Jennings once again took liberals to the cleaners on the Abrego Garcia case, the ‘Maryland man...
No comments:
Post a Comment