‘He is an animal’: Jack Hughes loses teeth then scores Olympic ice hockey winner for US
by Bryan Armen Graham at the Milano Santagiulia Ice H from US news | The Guardian on (#73RGK)
Center secures first men's title for US since 1980
Americans break Canadian hearts in overtime
It might not have been a shocker on the order of a bunch of scrappy college kids toppling the polished Soviet juggernaut at Lake Placid. But 46 years to the day of the Miracle on Ice, it often felt that way as another underdog United States men's hockey team ended their Olympic gold drought in a white-knuckle contest dominated by Canada until Jack Hughes' seismic overtime winner.
Call it the Marvel in Milan.
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