Goal summary of the gold medal final for men's ice hockey of the 2002 Winter Olympics between Canada and the United States of America. **Due to an error when editing, the Iginla goal is missing. My apologies...**
Iginla did not get nearly enough credit for this game. He scored twice and was involved in both of Sakic's goals. But he was always humble. What a player.
Don't really ever post comments but honestly the Mario 'non-assist' on the Kariya goal is my favourite moment ever from my favourite player ever. Not sure anyone else in the world makes that play in that spot.
you can really tell Richter froze for a second when he thought Lemieux was the recipient of the pass; but by the time he realized it wasn't Kariya already shot the puck and dove too late. What instincts Mario Lemieiux had........ amazing player. I always thought he was the best player in hockey not Gretzky.....
Yes... he had great calls for pretty much all the canadian teams, called the Cup Final in Canada for 28 years, but he did not had an iconic moment with the national team yet. After calling the heartbreak of the shootout in Nagano, he deserved that moment.
The team with 13 Hall of Fame players with 2 that are borderline, plus very good players like Smyth, Foote, Jovo, etc... Probably best team if they are all in their prime
You also had Brodeur in net and Pronger, MacInnis, Blake, Niedermayer, and Foote on the back end along with Nieuwendyk, Shanahan, Peca, Owen Nolan, and Eric Lindros as some of the great forwards too!
@@skullcandy005 we would have won gold in 1998 if Canada would have let the greatest of all time take a shootout shot. Lindross hit the crossbar and Gretzky would have buried it.
Probably the greatest hockey team ever assembled. lemieux, sakic, yzerman, pronger, mcinnis, iginla and the list goes on. What a game, still gives me chills!
Team Canada Roster: Ed Belfour Rob Blake Eric Brewer Martin Brodeur Theoren Fleury Adam Foote Simon Gagné Jarome Iginla Curtis Joseph Ed Jovanovski Paul Kariya Mario Lemieux Eric Lindros Al MacInnis Scott Niedermayer Joe Nieuwendyk Owen Nolan Michael Peca Chris Pronger Joe Sakic Brendan Shanahan Ryan Smyth Steve Yzerman
... Thank-you ... Iggy was always there so apologies are unnecessary ... truly a incredible game !!! ... crazy day for me ... was to be a day off - no, had to work in the retail pharmacy ... was a clinical pharmacist (hospital) but always on-call in the community ... but that day all the retail pharmacists were "sick" - so I am #1 - RATS - there goes the game !!! ... got to the pharmacy & found a very old clock radio in the stock room - amazingly it worked - even more amazingly I found the pre-game only in FRENCH !!! ... a true MIRACLE because I am French fluent ... was not very busy because everyone was at home watching the game ... the few customers who came joined me as I translated the play ... again, an incredible scene ... but I did not know who the commentators were ... does anyone know ??? ... of-course the commentary was brilliant ... wonderful memories !!! .... likely the best hockey team ever !!!
Lol Smyth just bawling at the end of the video! Gotta love him! I cant believe the last time the best on best tourney was in 2016! Bettman robbing us of watching McDavid and Crosby together on Team Canada. What a tournament this was hilited by Waynes press conference and of course finally winning the Gold medal. Beating the US on their own ice was a nice added bonus! :)
man, I really hope Crosby can hang on for two more years... We can still get him and McDavid. I know he might be not in his best, but still... Crosby is Crosby. We all know his greatness. And McDavid will be there too, God forbidding anything serious.
Coming back to watch this before our fellas start thier quest in Bejing. I feel like we're never gonna capture the magic of Salt Lake City, or Vancouver again, I hope I'm wrong....
.... Mario's brilliance - does not need to touch the puck to influence the game (were you watching Wayne) ... would have enjoyed seeing what Mario would have accomplished with Mark, Yari, Glenn, Paul, etc ... he did not have or need a bodyguard - did not YAP then RUN AWAY ... played like a Super Star & won Stanley Cups wearing a huge "bullseye" ... saw him play 5 times - the "moves" in confined space while slashed/hooked/grabbed was something to behold !!!
Joe Sakic is the only member of the "octuple gold" club. He's the only player in hockey history to win all of: 1) World Junior Championship 2) World Championship 3) Summit Series/Canada Cup/World Cup 4) Stanley Cup 5) Olympic Gold 6) President's Trophy (NHL Regular Season Champion) 7) Conn Smythe Trophy (NHL Playoff MVP) 8) Hart Trophy (NHL MVP) The closest is Jonathan Toews; who is only missing the Hart Trophy. Viacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, and Patrice Bergeron have 6; all missing Conn Smythe and Hart trophies. Alexander Ovechkin also has 6, missing Olympic Gold and SS/CC/WC.
I'll say what about it: two captains, two leaders, two men that led their teams through intense years of rivalry and were, for that moment, united for y'all in Canada. And of course, two techinically great players. In the final especially, Sakic was the uncovered energy wire regarding impact.
The 2 players with the most 100 pt seasons are Gretzky and Lemieux, not surprisingly, next in the list is Dionne with 8 and he did that playing his entire career on mediocre teams, the most Iginla ever got was 98, true, Dionne played in a higher scoring era but Thornton scored over 100 three times while playing in the same era as Iginla.
On that day; Canadian and American troops were fighting side by side. Nothing can separate the greatest allies the world has ever seen, except hockey. Go Canada Go.
