5-2! Fifty years wait! Canada won the gold medal!
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What an excited game!
I believe most of you have watched this historic hokey game this afternoon, in which Canada beat USA 5 to 2. Canada won its latest gold medal in Olympic in 50 years. What a magnificent victory!
I have watched several hokey games during this winter Olympic, including Canada against Finland, Russian against USA, and of course Canada against USA in woman’s hokey. But no game can compare with this game in term of excitement and the pace of game. I was so impressed with the confidence showing by Canadian team, both when they were in lead and when they were caught even. I am so proud for team Canada!
I believe most of you have watched this historic hokey game this afternoon, in which Canada beat USA 5 to 2. Canada won its latest gold medal in Olympic in 50 years. What a magnificent victory!
I have watched several hokey games during this winter Olympic, including Canada against Finland, Russian against USA, and of course Canada against USA in woman’s hokey. But no game can compare with this game in term of excitement and the pace of game. I was so impressed with the confidence showing by Canadian team, both when they were in lead and when they were caught even. I am so proud for team Canada!
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It's Canada!
Fifty years of Olympic frustration erased with 5-2 victory over USA
BILL BEACON, Canadian Press
Joe Sakic and Jarome Iginla each scored two goals as Canada ended a half-century of Olympic hockey frustration with a 5-2 victory over the United States on Sunday in the gold medal game of the 2002 Winter Games.
The victory came 50 years to the day that Canada last won Olympic gold in men’s hockey, when an amateur club, the Edmonton Mercurys, represented Canada at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo, Norway.
And it gave Canada the first-ever Olympic hockey double, as the Canadian women’s team beat the United States 3-2 to win gold on Thursday.
“The biggest game I’ve ever played in and probably the most fun,” Iginla told CBC.
Canadians watched across the country in what was expected to be a record TV audience back home. They savoured the moment, watching as Theo Fleury was the first to get a gold medal. Defenceman Scott Niedermayer was the last to get gold.
“All of Canada is cheering at this moment,” Prime Minister Jean Chretien told Wayne Gretzky, Team Canada’s executive director, in a telephone call carried live on CBC.
In the Canadian locker-room champaign poured. Back home, the drinks were also being poured liberally.
Hockey fans wasted little time celebrating. In Toronto, Yonge Street was choked with traffic and pedestrians invading the road.
The Russians, who took the bronze, were not present for the medal presentation. Gretzky beamed from the stands while wife Janet gave a thumbs up.
“I’m proud of this group,” Gretzky told CBC. “They deserve all the accolades. It’s nice to bring it home to Canada.”
It was Canada’s seventh men’s hockey gold medal overall, including a win in
@Tab0:1920, when hockey was played at the Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium, a tournament that is listed as unofficial.
Canada has also won four silver medals and two bronze in hockey.
“It’s a great feeling,” captain Mario Lemieux told CBC. “Everybody believed we could win the gold medal. It wasn’t easy but we showed a lot of character.”
Paul Kariya also scored for Canada, which outshot the United States 39-33.
Tony Amonte and Brian Rafalski scored for the Americans.
Sakic, who had two assists in the game and seven points in the tournament, was selected by the media as most valuable player of the Olympics and was the sole Canadian named to the all-star team.
“It’s unbelievable, for an international competition, this is it.” Sakic told NBC. “Everybody watches the Olympics. It’s just a great pleasure to play with these guys, we had a tough start early in the tournament, but we got better and became a team, and it’s just a great feeling.”
A feisty contingent of red-and-white clad Canadian fans partied in the E-Center stands even though they were drowned out for most of the game by chants of U-S-A from the home side supporters.
The U.S. had won hockey gold the last two times the Games were held on American soil ― in 1960 in Squaw Valley, Calif., and the Miracle On Ice triumph in 1980 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
U.S. coach Herb Brooks also coached the 1980 team.
A win this time would not have been a miracle, but Canada had the better of the play for most of the match.
Team Canada roared out of the blocks and had an early chance when Chris Pronger fired wide from the slot.
But the Americans looked to take advantage of Canadian defencemen jumping into the attack by sneaking forwards behind the defence to capitalize on two-line passes allowed in international hockey.
It worked at 8:49 when Doug Weight sent Amonte, who jumped on the ice on a line change, in on a two-on one and a shot that got under Martin Brodeur’s glove.
Canadian captain Mario Lemieux made an inspired play on the tying goal at 14:50 when he let Pronger’s pass go by to the onrushing Kariya for a shot into an open side past a stunned Mike Richter.
Sakic threaded a pass through the crease to Iginla for a goal at 18:33.
The Americans got a boost by killing off a two-man Canadian advantage early in the second period and got a break when Lemieux hit the post with the net wide open.
With Al MacInnis off for interference at 15:30, Rafalski’s point shot went off Pronger’s stick and dribbles through Brodeur’s pads to tie the game.
But Canada got a power-play goal back at 18:19 when Sakic’s shot went off Aaron Miller’s knee and through a screen in front of Richter to put Canada back in the lead.
An Iginla blast that went in off Richter’s glove at 16:01 of the third period ended the issue and Sakic got another on a breakaway at 18:40, prompting Canadian fans to begin singing O Canada in the stands.
The fifth goal sent Gretzky out of his seat, celebrating wildly.
Others voted to the tournament all-star team were Richter, U.S. defencemen Brian Leetch and Chris Chelios, American forward John LeClair and Swedish centre Mats Sundin.
Sakic, Kariya and Rob Blake became the first Canadians to join the exclusive Triple Gold Club of players who have won a world championship, a Stanley Cups and Olympic gold. All three were members of Canada’s 1994 world championship team.
The United States has won the world championship only once, in 1933.
The Americans had four wins and a tie to reach the final, outscoring opponents 24-5, although it had to hold off a furious third-period barrage to beat Russia 3-2 in the semifinals.
Canada lost its tournament opener 5-2 to Sweden, but got better as the tournament went on, defeating Finland 2-1 in the quarter-finals and blowing out Belarus 7-1 in the semis.
Fifty years of Olympic frustration erased with 5-2 victory over USA
BILL BEACON, Canadian Press
Joe Sakic and Jarome Iginla each scored two goals as Canada ended a half-century of Olympic hockey frustration with a 5-2 victory over the United States on Sunday in the gold medal game of the 2002 Winter Games.
The victory came 50 years to the day that Canada last won Olympic gold in men’s hockey, when an amateur club, the Edmonton Mercurys, represented Canada at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo, Norway.
And it gave Canada the first-ever Olympic hockey double, as the Canadian women’s team beat the United States 3-2 to win gold on Thursday.
“The biggest game I’ve ever played in and probably the most fun,” Iginla told CBC.
Canadians watched across the country in what was expected to be a record TV audience back home. They savoured the moment, watching as Theo Fleury was the first to get a gold medal. Defenceman Scott Niedermayer was the last to get gold.
“All of Canada is cheering at this moment,” Prime Minister Jean Chretien told Wayne Gretzky, Team Canada’s executive director, in a telephone call carried live on CBC.
In the Canadian locker-room champaign poured. Back home, the drinks were also being poured liberally.
Hockey fans wasted little time celebrating. In Toronto, Yonge Street was choked with traffic and pedestrians invading the road.
The Russians, who took the bronze, were not present for the medal presentation. Gretzky beamed from the stands while wife Janet gave a thumbs up.
“I’m proud of this group,” Gretzky told CBC. “They deserve all the accolades. It’s nice to bring it home to Canada.”
It was Canada’s seventh men’s hockey gold medal overall, including a win in
@Tab0:1920, when hockey was played at the Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium, a tournament that is listed as unofficial.
Canada has also won four silver medals and two bronze in hockey.
“It’s a great feeling,” captain Mario Lemieux told CBC. “Everybody believed we could win the gold medal. It wasn’t easy but we showed a lot of character.”
Paul Kariya also scored for Canada, which outshot the United States 39-33.
Tony Amonte and Brian Rafalski scored for the Americans.
Sakic, who had two assists in the game and seven points in the tournament, was selected by the media as most valuable player of the Olympics and was the sole Canadian named to the all-star team.
“It’s unbelievable, for an international competition, this is it.” Sakic told NBC. “Everybody watches the Olympics. It’s just a great pleasure to play with these guys, we had a tough start early in the tournament, but we got better and became a team, and it’s just a great feeling.”
A feisty contingent of red-and-white clad Canadian fans partied in the E-Center stands even though they were drowned out for most of the game by chants of U-S-A from the home side supporters.
The U.S. had won hockey gold the last two times the Games were held on American soil ― in 1960 in Squaw Valley, Calif., and the Miracle On Ice triumph in 1980 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
U.S. coach Herb Brooks also coached the 1980 team.
A win this time would not have been a miracle, but Canada had the better of the play for most of the match.
Team Canada roared out of the blocks and had an early chance when Chris Pronger fired wide from the slot.
But the Americans looked to take advantage of Canadian defencemen jumping into the attack by sneaking forwards behind the defence to capitalize on two-line passes allowed in international hockey.
It worked at 8:49 when Doug Weight sent Amonte, who jumped on the ice on a line change, in on a two-on one and a shot that got under Martin Brodeur’s glove.
Canadian captain Mario Lemieux made an inspired play on the tying goal at 14:50 when he let Pronger’s pass go by to the onrushing Kariya for a shot into an open side past a stunned Mike Richter.
Sakic threaded a pass through the crease to Iginla for a goal at 18:33.
The Americans got a boost by killing off a two-man Canadian advantage early in the second period and got a break when Lemieux hit the post with the net wide open.
With Al MacInnis off for interference at 15:30, Rafalski’s point shot went off Pronger’s stick and dribbles through Brodeur’s pads to tie the game.
But Canada got a power-play goal back at 18:19 when Sakic’s shot went off Aaron Miller’s knee and through a screen in front of Richter to put Canada back in the lead.
An Iginla blast that went in off Richter’s glove at 16:01 of the third period ended the issue and Sakic got another on a breakaway at 18:40, prompting Canadian fans to begin singing O Canada in the stands.
The fifth goal sent Gretzky out of his seat, celebrating wildly.
Others voted to the tournament all-star team were Richter, U.S. defencemen Brian Leetch and Chris Chelios, American forward John LeClair and Swedish centre Mats Sundin.
Sakic, Kariya and Rob Blake became the first Canadians to join the exclusive Triple Gold Club of players who have won a world championship, a Stanley Cups and Olympic gold. All three were members of Canada’s 1994 world championship team.
The United States has won the world championship only once, in 1933.
The Americans had four wins and a tie to reach the final, outscoring opponents 24-5, although it had to hold off a furious third-period barrage to beat Russia 3-2 in the semifinals.
Canada lost its tournament opener 5-2 to Sweden, but got better as the tournament went on, defeating Finland 2-1 in the quarter-finals and blowing out Belarus 7-1 in the semis.
