If you had told me before the tournament that Team USA would get the silver, I would have called you a filthy liar. We should all be thrilled. It’s an incredible boon for the program — especially winning the World Juniors in the same year.

Getting that close sucks, but Canada played a hell of a game. They deserved to win today, and I couldn’t be happier for Steve Yzerman, Ken Holland, Mike Babcock and MOST of those players. It is an extra special kick in the balls that Sidney Crosby scored the overtime winner, but what can you do? Sometimes the main dude is the main dude…

All of those guys should be thrilled with their silver medal. Maybe not tonight, but pretty soon they’ll be able to look back and take great pride in what they accomplished in hostile territory.

What a wonderful day for USA Hockey.

As a Red Wing fan in Toronto and a Canadian, i was happy to see the Canadian team win, but i felt the same as the rest of you when “Sniveling Sid” scored the winner, was hoping it wold have been someone else.
Oh well, congrats to everyone and now lets concentrate on the business at hand and cheer the Wings into the playoffs!

This has actually killed off my interest in the NHL for at least a few days, maybe a couple weeks – or longer.

Thinking back to the games of the last couple weeks, and the NHL games played before that, the Olympic hockey was so much more interesting that it will take me some time to get back to the regular boring hockey.

And I’m actually making a big assumption that I will be interested – right now the idea of watching another hockey game makes me want to puke. I just can’t stomach it right now (even on mute, which is the only way I’ll be able to watch any hockey for a very, very long time).

Sure, silver is nice and all, and the US should be proud – but dammit, I didn’t want this team to be first losers.

//sigh

At least the Sharks have something.

In his postgame interview, Ryan Miller looked like he was going to cry. I would like him to know that as a fellow American and Spartan, we are all so proud of him. He played one hell of an Olympics and if it wasn’t for him, I don’t think that Team USA would have gotten so far.

During the medal ceremony, as the camera panned down while Team USA was receiving their silver medals, every guy looked like Bettman had killed their new puppies. They all looked so dejected and sad. They should be so proud of themselves. I think they were all thinking, dammit, why did it have to be Cindy who won the game?

Hey NBC, there were other players on the Canadian team BESIDES Cindy, you could have given them some love, not kept the camera on him the ENTIRE time.

And like Baroque said, at least the Sharks have something. But more importantly and seriously, at least Jerome Iginla and Rick Nash won the gold. Because we all know that there isn’t a snowballs chance in hell that Rick Nash will ever hold the Cup ;).

like i said before the game, win or lose this team should be proud of what they accomplished. we werent even medal favorites, let alone supposed to win possibly the gold. But this team came out to prove something, minus maybe the first two games this team played with heart. You really cant say that about most of the teams these olympics, i.e. russia seemed like they just deserved to get a medal. I am proud of this team, they exceeded far greater than what MOST americans thought they would, at least the ones who knew hockey was even in the olympics.

i really hope this puts hockey back on the map, it really deserves it. Mr. Bettman should take a couple notes, though i dont think he can create what the olympics just did, because it was basically all all-star teams.

If someone told me before the games that USA would finish for Silver to Canada in OT, ahead of Russia, Sweden and, Finland, I would have been ecstatic. The loss stings but I’m trying to not let it mar the rest of what’s been the best Winter Olympics I’ve ever seen.

this game had the most thrill compared to the last two olympics i saw.
when parise scored the tying goal, my frends and i jumped up and down screaming
in the dorms. people thought there was someone who got hurt and we were all screaming in sadness :P.
i loved this game, and its inspiring! USA was the underdog team coming into this tournament. they deserved the medal although it wasnt the color that they wanted

It’s too bad the pace early did not continue throughout the game, but it was definitely entertaining.

…it forced the game to overtime, something neither team was hoping for.

But I was hoping for it and I imagine many other hockey fans were as well.

I especially liked that the crowd was about as loud for Miller as for Kesler, while the rest of the American team only got polite applause.