Re: Canada VS USA Womens Hockey
I agree Art it was a bad call, but like I said it never should have gotten out of regulation, they have no one to blame but themselves, sure throw the coaching staff in there who ever decided to sit back made a horrible decision and it cost them, you cannot expect a team like Canada to say ok were done.
I had a couple of conversations around this exact situation today both during and after the game. When you are up a couple of goals...its a dangerous thing because you aren't sure whether to protect your lead (go defensive) or keep pushing (go offensive). This situation goes way worse when you go down to being 1 goal up because your opponent senses 'being close and having nothing to lose'...and its tough to keep being offensive and aggressive when you just want to run the clock down and finish up with a simple lead.
Very tough to control the mind and to coach a bench of players wrestling with that with a minute, two or three left in a game.....glad it wasn't me!! LOL
As for the penalty I think she clipped Hayley with her skate...probably not on purpose, but it doesn't matter under those breakaway conditions. She (U.S girl) had enough speed she probably could have completely overtaken her in about 2 more strides and simply stick checked her. Under those conditions tho' your mind is racing and you are ready to do just about anything to stop a player from scoring.
They are playing the game later again....so I'll try to catch the replays of that play.
What time is the game on tomorrow EST/PST? I saw a posting of it being at 21:00 Sochi time...but is that 11:00 EST?
BP
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