It ended not with a miracle, but with a mewl: The United States men's team, hockey superpower, sent packing one game before the medal round by the Czech Republic on Wednesday.
In Sochi, it was T.J. Oshie who saved the Americans' collective bacon with a shootout performance for the ages. In Pyeongchang, it was five different U.S. skaters attempting to match the Czechs and win the game in the shootout.
They went 0-for-5. And just like that, Team USA was eliminated, having gone 1-1-1 in Group B, defeated Slovakia in the opening round of the tournament and then getting humbled the Czechs.