USA! USA! USA!

USA beats Switzerland in their quarter final match up by a final score of 2-0. The USA outshot their opponent 8437584715702764081764 to 19. (that might be slightly inaccurate... it might actually have been 44 to 19 with the Swiss getting 11 of those shots in the third period)

Zach Parise scored both goals for the USA with a 0-0 tiebreaker 2:08 into the third period and an empty net goal with about 12 seconds left. It should, of course, be noted that Zach's brother Jordan was a goalie for the Lowell Devils. I saw him play many many times. That doesn't actually have any bearing on the story, it just means that Robbie likes to name drop even when he doesn't know the person who's name he is dropping or it bares no relevance to... well... anything.

USA will now play the winner of tonight's Finland vs Czech Republic game which takes place at 10:00pm Eastern time. This semifinal game will take place at some point on Friday. The times are to be determined.

It should be noted (only because I do not believe it will jinx anything) that four teams advance out of the quarter finals, and three of those four teams will win a medal. Coming into the tournament I would have been thrilled to see my country earn any medal, but I really didn't think it would happen. Now, after getting the top seed out of the preliminaries and already having beaten a huge powerhouse of a Canadian team...

Is gold too much to hope for?

USA!
USA!
USA!

For future reference, I followed todays game on three sites: Twitter, an NBC auto-refreshing score board, and a live blog featuring input from a few ESPN writers.