Gold Medal Game!!!

What an Olympics we have had! And who could have guessed that we would be in for the gold medal game that we are being given in the Men's Ice Hockey tournament. Now, everybody knows that the women's hockey tournament will almost always come down to the US vs. Canada, but I don't think anybody predicted that on the men's side.

The USA seriously benefited from their underdog persona that they brought into the olympics. As far as everybody is concerned, right now, they are over achieving. Not only did they beat Finland to get into the Gold medal game, they embarrassed them. Canada was in control for all but the last 5 minutes of the game against Slovakia, when they decided to be the Colorado Avs for the last bit of the game, and allow their opponent to make it close before holding on for the win. So what kind of a gold medal game are we going to have?

I think that it is safe to say that we are going to continue to see Luongo in the net for Canada, and just as easy to say that we will see Ryan Miller for the US. Canada seems to have broken out of their goal scoring drought, after blasting Russia in the quarter finals. Canada owned the shots on goal against the US in the first round, but the US got a few early ones that just stunned Canada, and never really allowed them to get going. I think we are pretty safe in thinking that a goal 40 seconds into the game probably won't happen this time around. Canada has learned their lesson, in my opinion. They know that they have to come to play against this USA team, and I think we can all agree that if the team that embarrassed Russia comes into this Gold medal game, then the US could be in a lot of trouble.

The US has already proven that they can beat Canada, and I doubt that we will see a formula too much different than the first time. We can all count on this game to be physical, fast, and exciting.

All in all, I think that Canada is going to prevail in a close game, and the country will go absolutely nuts. I give it to Canada by a score of 6-4.