The game itself, a 3-1 snooze-fest in Game 1 of a best-of-three championship final, was brutal. Team Europe captain Anze Kopitar called it “our best game so far of the tournament.” But it might have been Canada’s ugliest. Then again, the lines are sort of blurring at this point in the World Cup. For it to be successful, you needed a compelling championship final between two teams that actually cared about beating the other. As Team Europe forward Thomas Vanek said of Canada, “We know this is the best team in the world.

Source: National Post September 28, 2016 04:41 UTC