Canadian fans should be very disappointed. Before the game, when one US player was having dinner with friends, a Canadian fan came over and gave a piece of paper to this player: "You are going down on Sunday. Go Canada!"
"I'm not cheering when we score because I don't want to draw attention to myself," said Emily Hanken of Portland, Ore., who watched the game outside in downtown Vancouver, clad in a vivid white U.S.A. hockey jersey.
"If the U.S. wins, I'm going to take the jersey off," she announced during the second period.