I'm surprised there isn't more hype surrounding this. Almost exactly 20 years ago, Canada met Sweden in an Olympic Gold Medal Final. I remember watching that game, watching Sweden tie it up and then being completely deflated when Forsberg scored that iconic shoot-out goal. I remember intensely hating everything Swedish for a month afterwards.
Hopefully, tomorrow is payback!
News article from February 1994:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...94-hockfin.htm
Quote:
But somehow, rather than succumb to the pressure or wilt from desire, the two teams played a hockey game for the ages through 60 throat-constricting minutes of regulation, and the 10-minute overtime, and that heart-stopping shootout that was ended on the seventh go-round by a kid center named Peter Forsberg, who spends much of his time insisting he'd rather pass than score.
With the crowd screaming as he took the puck at center ice, Forsberg came bearing down, bearing down, bearing down on Canadian goalie Corey Hirsch until, near the goal crease, he hesitated with the puck on his stick for what felt like an interminable amount of time.
Hirsch finally flinched first when it seemed only four feet or so separated the two men. And Forsberg — stickhandling the puck right, then left, then right again now — slid an agonizingly slow backhand shot along the ice, just under Hirsch's glove just a millisecond before the glove hit ice.
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