Team Canada men’s hockey star Nathan MacKinnon and head coach Jon Cooper are trying really, really hard to cope with losing out on Gold at theWinter Olympics.
46 years to the day after defeating the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice" game,Team USAmen’s hockey defeated arch nemesis Canada in overtime to win gold, thanks to an absolutely torqued wrister from Jack Hughes (who will need dental work).
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Connor Hellebuyck made 41 saves. Matt Boldy chipped in a key goal in the first period. The Americans killed off three penalties, including a lengthy 5-on-3 situation. Everything that was required of a team to win an epic game is exactly what the Americans did.
And MacKinnon and Cooper just can’t handle it.
MacKinnon is one of the best players in the NHL and is a surefire Hall of Famer. He is also a deadly shooter, but somehow he missed a wide open net in the third period that would’ve been guaranteed gold for Canada.
It’s been four hours since this game ended, and I still can’t process that a player of his quality missed an opportunity like that. That's like Steph Curry missing a wide-open three. It almost never happens.
That will haunt him for the rest of his life, in addition to being the guy that failed to dislodge the puck from Zach Werenski before feeding it to Hughes.
After the game, reporters talked briefly to MacKinnon about how he was processing the loss. Instead of accepting the defeat with a level of sportsmanship, he complained that the wrong team won it all.
I mean, seriously? How hard is it to say you lost to a team that, despite not getting as many shots on goal as Canada did, played like champions? Sure, the loss stings, but this dude needs to get it together.
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