And In Today’s Important News

If constitutional monarchy is good for anything, surely Marie-Philip Poulin will have been declared the Prime Minister of Canada before the end of the evening.

Also, for Americans inclined to ride the waaaaaambulance, well, it’s certainly true that warning or no warning to call the slashing penalty in overtime “tickey-tack” would be an insult to ticks and tacks, and it also seemed to be a make-up call based on the always-idiotic theory that if officials make some effort to enforce the rules they’re “deciding the game.” However, nonetheless let us not forget 1)the hip-check by the lineseman that nearly gave the U.S. an empty-net goal, 2)the failure by the comprehensively inept referee to call a penalty shot in overtime on what was a clean breakaway from the defensive blueline, and 3)the call only happened because American team (which in general played superbly) blew a 2-0 lead with less than 4 minutes left in regulation.

I also note that despite the outcome “momentum” is completely meaningless — the U.S. came out on fire in overtime, and without several huge saves by Szabados the game would have ended quickly.