Friday, February 21, 2014

Breaking down the madness of the US/Canada women's gold medal game

That was one of the greatest hockey games I’ve ever seen. Let’s start there.

Thursday’s gold-medal showdown between Team Canada and Team USA delivered the game we all knew was coming: close, vicious, and almost impossibly tense. Two decades into one of the best rivalries in sports, we couldn’t have expected anything else.

The only open questions were who would win, how it would end, and just how crazy things could get in between. The answers: Canada; in overtime; and “beyond anything you could imagine.”

Is that hyperbole? I’m really not sure it is. But just to be sure, let’s break out the Madness Scale and take a walk back through the entire game.

>> Read the full post on Grantland




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