Can You Believe That?

How totally deflating!  I did not see that coming!
There was a nice set-up by Schenn to Ellis for the opening PP goal, and a huge goal by Ashton late in the period to close out the first period up 2-0.
Schenn with a rocket in the second, chases the Russian starter, and gives us a 3-0 lead that we take to the second intermission.  Nothing could possibly go wrong... famous last words.
During the first two minutes of the third, I was already considering what I was going to say about the game.  I was saying out loud that while it's nice to win, the game had been pretty boring.  No flow, no momentum swings, no sustained pressure, and no lead changes.  Obviously I spoke too soon.  When the Russians scored two goals only 11 seconds apart, I was thinking - OK, now we've got a game.  Then, Tarasenko (who not too much earlier looked like they were dragging his dead corpse off of the ice) scores a mirror image goal to Schenn's (same pass across the ice, same one timer, same number, and same celebration), and it's all tied up.  At this point I was thinking - suddenly their beating us to all of the loose pucks.  The Russians go ahead with 5 minutes left, and then they score their fifth unanswered goal of the period with only a minute and a half left.  It's all over but the crying.
They brought this goalie for the sole purpose of beating the Canadians.  He started the tournament against Canada, lost, and never played again - until Canada went up by three.  He stopped all 20 shots, and won the player of the game.  Only played half the game, and won the player of the game.  Good call!
I'm a gracious looser.  Way to go Russia!  Loosing the first two games of the tournament, being down by two late in the quarter final and still coming back to win, being down late in the semis and coming back to win, and being down by three in the third period of the gold medal game.  If Canada had done anything like that, I would have said that it was destiny.  Congratulations!
It's too bad that the silver medal is never any consolation to a Canadian hockey fan.
Considering how much I just said... I feel speechless.

The End.