Four years. It's been nearly four years since Sidney Crosby took a sweet pass from Jarome Iginla and fired it between the pads of Ryan Miller to give Team Canada Olympic immortality.
The look of shock on the Americans' faces was discernible. For Miller, it was all a blur.
This wasn't how it was supposed to end, with the Canadians in a mob scene by the boards and a shell-shocked Miller kneeling between the pipes. In a flash it was all over, the prophecy unfulfilled, the mission incomplete.
Team USA had been labeled the underdogs of the tournament, yet played like a front-runner every step of the way. They never trailed once going into the gold-medal game, and a large part of that was Miller's stifling play in goal.
"We went there to win," said Miller, per Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports.
He was named the MVP, but that did little to ease the devastation of giving up the final goal of the tournament. Most Conn Smythe trophies come pre-packaged with a celebratory lap around the hockey rink, holding aloft the Stanley Cup. An MVP honor is meaningless without that gold med ...
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