New York City bars were jam-packed for the Sunday morning Olympic showdown between the US men’s hockey team and Team Canada — with local sports nuts hitting the bottle early.
The game got underway at the Milano Santaguila Arena in Milan, Italy, shortly after 8 a.m. New York time, culminating with the first US Olympic hockey gold medal for the men’s team since the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” during the Lake Placid games in upstate New York.