USA and Canada go for gold
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Team USA and Team square off for gold today at 2:15 pm. It’s on NBC. Here are some links:
NHL.com looks at some of the key matchups in the game
And then there is this from Eric Duhatschek of The Globe and Mail:
The legendary American hockey coach, Bob Johnson, once made an observation about the game of hockey that is pertinent to Sunday’s gold-medal final between Canada and the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Johnson believed that the outcome of any hockey game revolved around a series of tangible factors - talent, preparation, will, fatigue, goaltending - and one intangible, luck. The problem, according to Johnson, was that nobody ever wanted to talk about how luck figured into the equation - and he also knew why.
Unlike all the other factors in the game of hockey, which can be analyzed to death, luck cannot be predicted; it cannot be quantified; and it cannot be measured. But in a contest between two closely matched teams, luck - whether the puck caroms off the inside of a goalpost, or the outside; whether a referee makes an iffy call, or doesn’t; whether an experienced goaltender whiffs on a shot or makes a great save - CAN be a factor in the result.
The rest of the article is here.
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