Eat it, Putin  Mr. Bobrovsky, we tore down this wall!  Mr.
Bobrovsky, we tore down this wall!  So that was pretty great.
Of course, any time the US wins is pretty great, but beating
Russia, in Russia, with their shockingly-beshirted homophobe
piece of garbage president Vladimir Putin watching, in a
thrilling game that required not only overtime but eight rounds
of a shootout, is even better.  The game was played so evenly
for pretty much its entirety that it was easy to forget that
Russia’s team is bad and America’s is great, especially because
Pavel Datsyuk was doing all in his power to carve up the US
defenses at any opportunity. He ended up scoring both of
Russia’s goals, one on a partial break — in which he abused all
three of Brooks Orpik (who just got eaten up by the speed), John
Carlson (who put himself out of position and never recovered),
and Max Pacioretty (whose backcheck was so soft it was mistaken
for a Russian third-line forward) — and the other on a power
play goal facilitated by an idiotic kn