USA vs Canada Gold Medal game time
The USA vs Canada gold medal game time is set to start at 12:15 PM ET. The US hockey team has already defeated Canada in their first meeting during these winter Olympic games. Now the Canadian hockey team will try to get the win on the most important game of the two. Will the US have enough to beat Canada a second time.
Yahoo reports: Canada, the hockey superpower, was always supposed to play for the gold medal on home ice in the very country that invented hockey. The United States, the infrequent power that hasn’t won a hockey gold outside its own borders, has been the best team in the Olympics so far.
Beating Canada on Canadian ice with a pro-Canadian crowd once was difficult enough for the U.S., the surprise of the tournament and the only unbeaten team remaining.
“It’s hard to beat a team twice in a tournament like this,” U.S. coach Ron Wilson said. “But we’ve beaten Canada, and we’ll play better than we did the last time we played against them.”
The Americans have no choice unless they’re to leave the Olympics with the silver for the second time in three Olympics. Canada also defeated them in Salt Lake City eight years ago.
“We all talked, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice?’ and now we have the opportunity,” said Ryan Miller, perhaps the best goalie in the games. “We have the talent. We have some youthful excitement, we have the right kind of veteran players.”
Those U.S. youngsters—14 are 25 or younger—have won every game in regulation in Vancouver. They didn’t give 2006 silver medalist Finland a chance in the semifinals, scoring six goals in the opening 13 minutes and winning 6-1.
The Canadians have been very good since losing to the U.S., blowing out Germany 8-2 and Russia 7-3, but they’ve also shown vulnerability. The Americans’ speed bothered them, and they held on to beat Slovakia 3-2 in the semifinals Friday night as Roberto Luongo gave up two late goals.
“We’ve got to jump on them early,” American forward Ryan Kesler said Saturday. “The Russians and Slovaks sat back and we’re not going to do that, we’re going to go right after them from the puck drop. We’re going to have to get in his (Luongo’s) face.”
No lineup can match Canada’s for depth, talent and versatility. But this isn’t a seven-game series, it’s a 60-minute game, and the Americans already know they can beat Canada.
If they have few fans in the building, so what? Every crowd in Vancouver has rooted for the Americans’ opponent.
Again USA vs Canada Gold Medal game time will be at 12:15 ET. Hopefully the best wins.

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