Mike Machnik ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
 
: When I think of the shootout, I think about the weekend we were in
: Maine for the Merrimack-Maine series - same weekend as the gold medal
: shootout between Canada and Sweden.  What I kept hearing over and over
: in the press box and in the stands was, "What a terrible way to lose a
: game."
 
As an interesting (somewhat) side comment to this, a short while after the
Olympics, in our local paper Paul Kariya was asked his opinion of losing
the game that way. "We didn't lose the game", he said, "we lost the
shootout."  (my paraphrase).
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