It appeared as though Team USA was going to slide into the men’s hockey semi-finals at the Winter Olympics, but Sweden had other plans — giving us a lesson in why you can never assume victory in hockey. Mika Zibanejad scored with just 1:31 left on the clock with a pulled goalie, sending the game to overtime. From there, Quinn Hughes became the Team USA hero, rocketing a wrister past Jacob Markstrom on a partial screen from Auston Matthews to give USA the win, and move on to the semi-finals.
It wasn’t a pretty win, but pretty doesn’t matter. It was a back-and-forth game that took over 60 minutes to
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