It may not look like it with just 4 goals over two games, but the Americans continued their dangling, sniping ways into the second round of the playoffs. The unofficial clang count was somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 for the US as they missed blowing out their opponent by half an inch on many occasions. The defending champion Czech team went home without much of a fight, managing only 1 goal over two games.
Norway, on the other hand, put up quite a fight. The only underdog to make it through the first round was also the only underdog to not get swept out of the second. They stunned the number two seeded Russia with a victory in game one, but made too many mistakes and missed too many oppurtunities in the next two games. Two missed penalty shots and the inability to get a shot off on a wide open net sunk the Norwegians in game two while going shorthanded on six different occasions lost them the chance to take game three.
So that means that the final four now consists of the four top seeded teams. Top seeded Canada will host Sweden while number two seeded Russia will have to shake off their near loss to take on the USA
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