This tournament was amazing because the best in the world showed up.The next two winter Olympics should be something look forward to with players like Patrick Kane (USA), Sindey Crobsy (Canada), Alexander Ovechkin( Russia) showing their world class talent. I watched a lot of games that were on at 11:55 PM going into the morning that were unforgettable. The biggest surprise was USA beating Canada in the preliminary round 5-3. Ryan Kessler scored an amazing empty net goal with one hand, really displayed Americas hard nose style of play.
The real irony is in the gold medal game Canada beat USA. The gold medal game was extremely intense going to overtime after Zach Parise tied it in the closing seconds. The Gold medal game got huge ratings (27.6 million) ahead of NCAA basketball final, most watched 2009 World Series game, the top game from last year 2009 NBA Finals. Hopefully this gets society to realize what an amazing game hockey is. Since the lockout hockey has lost some of its fans and hasn’t full recovered. NHL is the only sport to stop mid-season for the Olympics and that definitely says a lot about the NHL right now. How does a league just stop, every team lose momentum, and there is a two week break for non-participants. On the other hand hopefully this tournament brings back people to NHL. I think the tournament will give people names to follow like Crosby.The talent was spread fairly evenly and teams who had no NHL players like Switzerland still found ways to compete with Canada taking them into overtime.
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