The Maccabiah website, true to its shaky performance throughout the tournament, provides next to no details for the game, even erroneously posting the wrong score; the 5-3 listed tally represents the round robin match between the USA/Ukraine, the smallest goal differential of any of the eight games in the tournament so far.
What we do know of the game comes mostly from Facebook and twitter thanks to Josh Richelew, the USA team manager. After a scoreless first period, the USA jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second period. The floodgates opened in the third and the US squad ended up with six goals, three of them on the power play.
Greenwald had an assist somewhere in there while Chwick did not figure in the scoring sextet. According to Chwick, "All in our best effort of the tournament. We used our speed extremely well." (h/t Benet Pols)
Greenwald had an assist somewhere in there while Chwick did not figure in the scoring sextet. According to Chwick, "All in our best effort of the tournament. We used our speed extremely well." (h/t Benet Pols)
The US now faces off against a Canada team that beat the red, white and blue 6-1 in the final game of round robin play yesterday. Despite the lopsided score, the US did pepper the Canadian goaltender with 44 shots. The gold medal game will take place on Friday afternoon in Israel.
In lieu of details of the semis, here are some fun tweets. The first comes to us form Stan Fischler, Emmy award winning broadcaster for the MSG Network (Rangers, Islanders, Devils). He tweeted out the finals matchup before either semifinal game was played. If Israel and Ukraine used it as bulletin board material, it didn't work.
Who's that tweeting at USA coach Billy Jaffe in the tweet below? None other than Mike Eruzione, captain of the famous 1980 USA "Miracle on Ice" Team.
So in the Jewish Olympics -- otherwise known as the Maccabiah Games -- it's Canada vs. USA in the Final on Friday at 1 p.m. Israel time.The next comes to us from Ben Rosen, USA team member, former Boston University Terrier and current property of the New York Islanders organization. Rosen discovered that the Canada Centre had a shooting range and decided to blow off some steam pre-game.
— Stan Fischler (@StanFischler) July 24, 2013
Shooting range in a hockey rink...only in Israel #headshot #firsttimer pic.twitter.com/IQ32FG3vOO
— Ben Rosen (@BRosen8) July 24, 2013
Who's that tweeting at USA coach Billy Jaffe in the tweet below? None other than Mike Eruzione, captain of the famous 1980 USA "Miracle on Ice" Team.
Team USA #Maccabiah2013 wins 6-0. Best effort by the boys so far “@MERUZIONE: one game at a time. Good luck on your quest for Gold.”
— Billy Jaffe (@BJaffe) July 24, 2013
Enjoy the rest of the tweets below and don't forget to vote for who you think will win the gold medal matchup between the Canucks and Yanks. (poll is on upper right hand corner sidebar)
6-0 win. Gold Medal game vs Canada on Friday
— Josh Richelew (@jrichelew) July 24, 2013
Gold medal game againt the US on Friday
— Jesse Feldman (@JesseFeldmanTV) July 24, 2013
Next stop gold medal game #canada #dumbcanucks #usa #maccabiah2013 http://t.co/wC8MX3s6dP
— Max Motew (@FattyLip1) July 24, 2013
Good luck to @BRosen8 in his gold medal game #favoritejew @ColbyCohen36 is a close second though #mazeltov
— Vinny Saponari (@VinnySap) July 25, 2013
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