Team Canada men's hockey team wins Olympic gold in Sochi, defeating Sweden 3-0
The Canadian men's hockey team played another disciplined defensive game, dominating Sweden in the gold-medal match at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Goals by Jonathan Toews, Sidney Crosby, and Chris Kunitz gave Team Canada a 3-0 victory.
Crosby and Kunitz each scored unassisted after stripping the puck from Swedish players.
B.C.–born Carey Price recorded his second straight shutout, and Canada only allowed three goals over the entire tournament.
He had a relatively easy final match as the Canadian team kept the pressure on throughout the game.
Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo also posted a shutout against Austria in his only appearance.
In addition to Price, there were four other B.C.–born players on the roster: Duncan Keith, Shea Weber, Jamie Benn, and Dan Hamhuis.
Price, Keith, Weber, and Benn played a central role in the tournament, with Benn scoring the only goal in the 1-0 semifinal victory against the Americans.
Remarkably, there were some empty seats in the stadium in the gold-medal match, unlike the final game in Vancouver in 2010.
It's the third time that the Canadian men's and women's hockey teams have won gold in the same Winter Games.
It was also the first time in 62 years that the Canadian men's hockey team have won gold outside of North America.
Canada won 25 medals in the 2014 Games—10 gold, 10 silver, and five bronze.
It was one shy of the 26 medals captured in Vancouver in 2010.
Comments
8 Comments
Oof Da
Feb 23, 2014 at 7:37am
Shhh...I PVRed it.
Bruce Dean
Feb 23, 2014 at 8:13am
There are so many things to be passionate about in this world; passion for life, a passion for your art/trade, passion for family and friends, and passion for those who need our help. So why choose hockey over human rights, why choose hockey over the poor who are left in the wake of the Olympics?
People seem so small, simple, and shallow when they choose such superficial things over what matters. BC holds a Canadian record for consecutives years of the highest levels of child poverty in our country, even after the promised 2010 Olympic boost to the economy, and even after Canada wins gold in Sochi.
Hazlit
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:04am
Boo, hiss! A big, big, big, thumbs down.
Charlie Smith
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:11am
Hazlit,
Your comments below our hockey posts never fail to amuse me.
Charlie Smith
DShK
Feb 23, 2014 at 11:27am
I woke up at 3:30 to get ready and by 3:50 I had fallen asleep on the couch. Woke up briefly saw it was 1-0 and back to dreamland I went. Finally woke up proper with 10 minutes to go in the 3rd...meh, an easy win as I thought. Put on golf and then fell asleep back in bed proper.
The women's victory was awesome. For some reason I just don't care about the pros anymore
Hans
Feb 23, 2014 at 3:41pm
Bruce Dean, go back to Socialist LALALand
Yeah right
Feb 23, 2014 at 5:13pm
@Bruce Dean
Are you joking? You think that people are shallow if they don't subscribe to your strict list of things that we are permitted to be passionate about? I feel so ashamed now for feeling happy about our athletes. I'm a monster.
Hazlit
Feb 23, 2014 at 9:03pm
@Charlie Smith,
Thanks Charlie. I just keeping thinking about how much money we could save if we didn't spend our fortunes on sports.
Here is just one peer reviewed paper on the subject:
"It is common for a city to use expensive incentives such as a state-of-the-art stadium or tax exemptions to induce a major professional sport team to relocate to or remain in its area. A city does so because it expects a professional sport team to enhance the local economy. In this article, the authors use an event study approach to evaluate the advisability of this strategy. Their results suggest that major league sports franchises from the four major U.S. team sports (baseball, football, basketball, and hockey) have an adverse impact on local per capita income for U.S. markets in both the short and long run."
http://jse.sagepub.com/content/8/3/244.abstract