GANGNUENG, South Korea — It was a miracle — on thin ice.
A hockey game broke out the other night at the lukewarm Pyeongchang Games where for the first time in two decades the NHL stayed home.
The day special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals for allegedly interfering with the 2016 presidential election the world superpowers brought intensity to the Winter Olympics.
A relic of Cold War politics on ice injected drama into a starless tournament some predicted would have little significance while the world’s best players plowed through the late winter month of the drawn-out NHL season.