Sentences with phrase «gold medal game»

Players of Team USA celebrate winning the gold medal after penalty - shot shootout following the Women's Ice Hockey Gold Medal game final between USA and Canada

Genai was a member of the United States Men's National Water Polo Team for 12 years and played in the 2004 Athens Olympics, 2003 & 2007 Pan American Gold Medal games, and multiple World Championships.

The U-20 World Junior Championship Gold Medal game will be broadcast on NHL Network at 8 am on Saturday.

If you don't think that hockey is really that big of a deal in Canada, just watch these scenes of Canadians freaking out during the women's Olympic hockey gold medal game.

But the mood around Canada's showdown with the Trump administration over trade isn't exactly like the gold medal games in hockey at the Vancouver Olympics, is it?

The husband and I got up at 3 am to go to our friend's house with other crazy, hockey lovin Canadians to watch the Men's Gold Medal Game.

The gold medal game was a civic event — hockey is the thread that sews together the patches of Canada's cultural quilt — that begged to be shared among those of the maple - leaf persuasion.

Near the end of regulation in the gold medal game on Sunday, he failed to cash in a breakaway that would have dumped the U.S. into a cavernous two - goal hole.

Abandoning that smoke screen upon reaching the gold medal game against none other than powerful Spain — and the rematch everyone had been awaiting for so long, or at least since six days earlier when the U.S. squeaked out a 101 - 68 thriller — Knight had the gall to say the Americans had come through «the toughest draw.»

It still would have been sweet redemption for an overtime loss to Canada in the gold medal game in Sochi.

Bronze medal game: Canada 6, Czech Republic 4 Gold medal game: Olympic Athletes from Russia 4, Germany 3 (OT)

Along with his jersey, he is selling his stick that he used to score the game - winning goal, and his blue USA Hockey jersey that he wore against Finland in the Gold Medal game.

I was actually quite surprised to find out while writing this that France actually made it to the gold medal game, although this dunk happened in a preliminary round.

The handball competition will begin on August 6, and the women's gold medal game will be held on Saturday, August 20 with the men's final taking place the next day.

The men's gold medal game is set for Sunday, August 21st, with the women's final taking place on Saturday, the 20th.

Russia, as a 5 - seed, will have to play an extra game if they're to get into the Gold Medal game yet they remain the second favorite ahead of both USA and Sweden.

This was about hockey, not the passport, a point Jeremy Roenick of the U.S. tried to make on the eve of the gold medal game when he noted, «My favorite player is Steve Yzerman, and he's Canadian.»

The coin was dug up after the gold medal game on Sunday and handed to Team Canada executive director Wayne Gretzky, who elevated it to artifact and will give it to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, passing the buck for the first time in his life.

However, the numbers that count, as hockey continues the battle to establish itself as something more than NASCAR of the North, will be the ones that emerge over the next 20 years, when kids who watched the gold medal game start playing and become involved in the sport.

The 32 players in the gold medal game who were facing a teammate are now answering the siren call of dollars.

The Olympic Athletes from Russia lived up to their billing as favorites in Pyeongchang with an exciting 4 - 3 overtime win over Germany in the gold medal game Saturday night.

The American women have been on the losing side of the gold medal game against Brazil twice in a row.

That changed in the gold medal game, as Canada clawed within two with five minutes left.

The last time they medaled was in Beijing during the 2008 games, when they took home silver after a 14 - 10 loss to Hungary in the gold medal game.

The U.S. faces Spain on Tuesday, a team that features the brothers Pau and Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka, in what is anticipated to be a preview of the gold medal game yet again.

Now that the U.S. got by Argentina and Spain, Coach K's team is on to the gold medal game.

The men's gold medal game is set to take place on Thursday, August 18th, while the women will play for gold the next day.

The U.S. defeated the Czech Republic 21 - 14 in the gold medal game, closing the contest on an 8 - 1 run after the teams played to a 13 - 13 tie with 3:30 left to play.

... Finally winning in the gold medal game when we were tied with Canada at halftime was relieving and really exciting.

Coyotes prospect Mike Lee had a rough time in the gold medal game at the World Junior Championships.

The USWNT's road to Gold assuming they win their group will go: Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and the Gold Medal game in Rio de Janeiro.

Now this is a different ball game and Brazil will go into the gold medal game slightly favorite.

David Wolf # 89 of Germany attempts a shot against Vasili Koshechkin # 83 of Olympic Athlete from Russia in the first period during the Men's Gold Medal Game.

U.S. curling skipper John Shuster led the Americans to a 10 - 7 victory in their gold medal game against Sweden at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.