MILAN — A 46-year wait will end in two seconds, but nobody knows that, least of all Zach Werenski. He has the puck on his stick—“kind of a broken play,” he’ll say later, but it’s not what he is thinking at the moment, and why should he? For this United States men’s hockey team, nothing really breaks. Canada should have broken this game open by now, but hasn’t. A series of brutal high-stakes losses should have broken American spirits by now, but didn’t.
Werenski sees a flash of white on the far ice.
