The even steeper irony is that the women’s team literally unequivocally clobbered their way through the tournament, playing hockey at a higher level (as a team) than any women have ever played before. Meanwhile the men’s team barely made it past the semi and was a nut hair shy of losing to Canada (who also nearly didnt make it to the gold medal game).

There was only one historic quality hockey team in this Olympics, and it was definitely not the US Men