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Originally Posted by dammage79
I can only look back at today's game and understand that Nathan MacKinnon had the game on his stick and couldn't put it away.
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I understand the disappointment but I still think Mackinnon is taking far too much of the blame for that. He had just one of many chances Canada had to end the game.
And you can't really blame him for rushing the shot after the paddle save Helly makes on Toews who in hindsight obviously should have bore down more on his chance. Both players score more often than not in those situations, but MacKinnon doesn't deserve to be seen as the reason they lost that game.
He scored some clutch goals in other games including the game winner in the semi against Finland. Without him they don't even make it to the show. You know he is the type of player who will blame no one but himself and you hate to see it.
He doesn't deserve to be haunted by that missed opportunity forever even though he will be for at least another four years. I feel bad for him in particular about that. I think he was arguably the best player on the team both on paper and in practice.
So Canada, we are all disappointed to not win gold but please don't put this one on MacK. We should all be proud of his efforts. It's a game of inches that could have gone either way as most of us expected. Give credit to the Americans who hung in there and found a way to get it done in the goofy 3 on 3 dice roll.
By all means do feel free to throw that stinky Oiler "captain" under the bus, however.
