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Thompson achieves a golden goal for us

Days Thompson scored overtime at 2:02 to achieve a 1-0 win against Switzerland to win the gold medal. When he skated with a little space in the blue line, he tore a shot at the blocker of the tournament -MP Leonardo Genoni and threw himself into the corner boards for the celebration before he was bullied by teammates.

This is the first gold medal for the Americans since 1933. For the Swiss, more heartache. They have been in the Gold Medal game four times since 2013 and lost all four-two two to Sweden (2013, 2018), last year against the Czech Republic and tonight in the USA

The Americans exceeded Switzerland 40-25, but Genoni was sensational. In the last five games he had played, he had a shutout series of 243: 27, including three Shutouts, which improved the modern record of 238: 05 by Pekka Rinne in 2015. The game also marks the end of Andres Ambuhl's career. He leaves the game with an incredible record of 151 world championship games, which are played with 20 top levels in the course of a record tournaments.

The teams started the game with nerves and clearly felt the weight of the pressure. This was not an ordinary game for both teams. The Americans only got their first shot after more than three minutes and Switzerland until six minutes after six minutes. The game was opened a little for the Swiss when they had the game's first power game, and although they tested Swayman, he made a few nice parades to keep the game goalless.

The Swiss slowly built up as little swing and pressure, but Swayman was more than the task, and towards the end of the period the Americans who won some momentum were. Genoni made a great reaction to save a seam tip from Logan Cooley, and then the United States got an effective late power game. But this time it was Genoni who was rocky and a preliminary first period ended without a goal.

The second perhaps started with even greater caution than the first, and the pace was not helped by countless whistles, which slows down the game on a crawl and only contributed to the nervous game. But from this a huge moment. Michael Fora's point in the American blue line was blocked by Frank Nazar, who raced over the ice during a clear break. Fora hunted him, but put on him, which led to a penalty shot.

The US trainer Ryan Warsofsky chose Conor Garland to make the shot, but his dece was easy to read from Genoni and kept a 0-0 game. But the USA grew in trust. You have many pucks on the Swiss goalkeeper, not hard shots, not difficult parades, but still. Only good things can happen. The Swiss proved to be resilient in their own end, but could not test Swayman to a large extent during this period.

Andrew Peeke had a nice chance that Genoni was thrown aside, and a short time later Will Smith was denied. The only sentence of the middle 20 minutes came to the United States in the last minute, but when the time went back, they actually had the best chance to score a goal. Garland whipped a pass from the boards in front of Nazar, and its quick tip required the full speed of Genoni's reactions on the Summer.

The Americans were more aggressive on the puck to start the third, but the first good chance was a Swiss. Dean Kukan scored a quick point that Nino Niederreiter brought in front of the tip, but Swayman was there.

The United States was still the better team on the Puck and opened almost seven minutes ahead. A Zach -Werenski -Shot -Hit -Hit -Hit hit and hopped near the goal line before it was cleared to safety. The rest of the period was returned in both directions in the sense of the next target and the game ended in Garigess 60 minutes. Time for unlimited overtime, 3-to-3.

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