Olympic Hockey Semifinal: USA vs Canada

I think all hockey fans knew that it would come to this this year. On Friday the 21st the United States hockey team will take on the always strong Canadian team. The US has been invincible this Olympic season. They have defeated solvakia (7-1), Russia (3-2 in the shoot out), Slovenia (5-1), and then the Check Republic (5-2 in the quarter finals). The US team has had vey strong goaltending this year, with Johnathan Quick ( Los Angeles) and Ryan Miller (Buffalo) combining to allow 6 goals in 4 games. The Canadian team has not breezed through the previous rounds like the US. They defeated Norway (3-1), Austria (6-0), Finland (2-1 in overtime), then escaping Latvia (2-1) in the quarter finals by the hairs on their chinney chin chins. Anyone who followed the 2010 Vancouver Olympic hockey would now about the meeting of the two teams in the gold medal game. The Canadians emerged victorious, winning 2-3 in sudden death overtime. This season, however, the Canadians have barely squeezed by two teams who should have been easy pickings. The US only had one remotely close game which they won 3-2 in the shootout against Russia and their home crowd. No matter the way these two teams have been playing, sometimes these things don't matter in a great rivalry such as this one. It will absolutely be an aggressive, ferocious game. Both teams will be fighting as hard as they possibly can. Though this year the teams don't meet in the medal round, the teams will no doubt treat it like one.