Last night was the best hockey game I’ve seen in a year. To see two teams locked in a fast paced chess match to the death was something I frankly wasn’t ready for. That game was as close to a Rocky Balboa fight on ice that could have ever been. The last time I literally jumped out of my seat while watching hockey, Claude Giroux slid a no-look pass to a wide open Gagne to beat Marc-Andre Fluery in early 2009. The junior teams of Canada and the United States put on a spectacle last night, showing hockey in its most pure, happiest form. I felt like I was a part of team USA last night. I wanted to jump into that pile and give my teammates the ol’ stinky glove to the face. I felt like I belonged because I was watching people have the most fun of their lives, overcoming something that nobody really thought they could.

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