Olympics / Sports  Russia celebrates a goal by forward Pavel
Datsyuk (13) against USA goalie Jonathan Quick (32) in the third
period of a men's hockey game at Bolshoy Ice Dome during the
Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. USA
defeated Russia, 3-2. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
Oshie's shootout goals lead US past Russia in men's hockey
thriller  SOCHI, Russia -- They were supposed to be the team
with more skill, more creativity, and a state-sanctioned amount
of Russian flamboyance. Here in the country of Tchaikovsky,
Dostoyevsky and Baryshnikov, they couldn't have fashioned a
finer formula for victory.  Their graceful masters, Evgeni
Malkin, Pavel Datsyuk and Ilya Kovalchuk, against whomever Team
USA coach Dan Bylsma would pick from his bench, in the ultimate
test of individual hockey craftsmanship.  Back in America, they
likely were lamenting that this game would end in a shootout. In
Sochi, and throughout this beautiful, bulging nation that spans
nine time zones, they were pre