MILAN — This was exactly what the United States women’s hockey team needed. After annihilating their first five opponents, the Americans finally played a game that was close to almost being sort of in the general ballpark of kind of semi-competitive in a really abstract way.
Thirty-two years ago, Sweden’s Peter Forsberg scored a golden goal at the Lillehammer Olympics. Swedes were so excited that they put a picture of Forsberg’s goal on a postage stamp. It is time for another stamp, to commemorate an equally amazing feat: After one period in Monday’s semifinal, Sweden only trailed the U.S., 1–0.
