A Great Final Game

    When I watch a playoff series, there is one thing I hate to see, a sweep. I enjoy a good game seven of any playoff series in any sport. I really love it, when game seven is a close game. Its even better when that last game goes overtime. The Olympic Hockey tourament does not have the contesting teams play more then one game to decide who gets the Gold and who gets the Silver. Today we go back only one year to one of the greatest Gold metal games ever played.

    On February 21, 2010 the United States and the Canadian teams met in a preliminary round game, the United States won the game by a score of 5-3. The Canadians were forced to play in the qualification playoffs in order to advance to the quaterfinals against Russia. The Americans advanced automatically into the quarterfinals. The Canadians wanted to pay the Americans back for the extra game. The only way was to met the Americans again in the gold metal game. On Sunday, Febuary 28 they got their wish.

   The Canadians scored the lone goal in the first period when Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks scored at the 12:50 mark. The two clubs traded goals in the second period. With his team down by a goal at the 18:33 mark in the third period American coach Ron Wilson pulled goalie Ryan Miller. A minute and two seconds later the move paid off when Zach Parise of the New Jersey Devils scored to tie the game with 25 seconds left in the game. The game moved into overtime!! At the 7:40 mark of sudden death overtime, Sidney "The Next One" Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored for Canada. The gold metal belonged to Canada.

   The answer to yesterdays trivia question is the Celtics lead the Lakers 196 games to 152 games for the Lakers. The Celtics have outpointed the Lakers 37,334 to 36,660 in the 248 games played, with 74 of these games in the playoffs. The Celtics have won all four game 7s the two teams have played. My source for this is SHRPsports.com. Todays trivia question is who won the bronze metal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Mens Hockey? The answer will be revealed in tomorrows daily blog about the baseballs' Canadian-American League.