Leila Rahimi

blanking graves and he types another letter in there but that's the point is if this were on the other side for the u.s to get as close as it had gotten to a gold medal since 2010 and then arguably even closer when you consider what happened that year you know that was sydney crosby's team taking him down you don't want to win silver

You know, you want to win either the bronze or the gold because at least at that point you're winning the game.

But in this case, to be so close and to have just an incredible performance from Connor Hellebuck as well.

I mean, that's one of those performances that'll stand out, you know, for the ages.

Like, to have 41 saves in the game.

Oh, yeah.

Like, how do you even put that into discussion?

Because that's something where even when Laz was tweeting where he's like, he has 40 saves and we're going into overtime.

And then what do you see?

But one of those performances where you really have a goalie stand on his head and

And, you know, that's the other point about this is in the Olympics, we talk about the well, they Canada feels like they were the better team.

You know, there's the Nathan McKinnon quote of of you tell me you tell me who the judge was of who is the better team today.

That's the nature of this.

Team USA lost in a shootout in 2022 to a Slovakia team who ended up winning the bronze medal.

That's the perilous nature of knowing that that is your fate in this tournament.

And it's not a best-of-seven like the NHL playoffs, but for Team USA to come out and really be resilient the entire tournament tells you a lot about who this team really was.

Silver sucks.

No, bronze at least wins their game though.

That's the difference.

It's like winning the NIT championship in basketball.