VANCOUVER, British Columbia --- A full day later, the U.S. hockey victory over Canada was still reverberating at the Vancouver Olympics.
Monday afternoon, Canada hockey coach Mike Babcock answered the question everyone across the country was asking by declaring that he was benching goaltender Martin Brodeur and starting Roberto Luongo for today's win-or-else game against Germany.
"We're in the winning business and to win in any game, at any level, you need big saves," Babcock said. "We're looking for Lu to do that."
WOMEN'S HOCKEY: What a day to remember for U.S. coach Mark Johnson: He celebrated the anniversary of the "Miracle on Ice," in which he scored two goals, and saw his team avenge their 2006 Olympic shootout loss to Sweden with a 9-1 victory.
The Americans jumped ahead 4-0, then put the game away with four goals early in the third period, all against Kim Martin, the same goalie who stunned them in Turin. Monique Lamoureux scored three goals. Angela Ruggiero, a four-time Olympian playing in her record 250th game, also scored.
Canada advanced with a 4-0 win over Finland. Meghan Agosta set an Olympics record with her ninth goal and Canada upped its margin of victory for the tournament to 46-2.
CURLING: Skip John Shuster's team got an early lead over Canada but lost 7-2 in a shortened match. The Americans fell to 2-6 going into their finale Monday night against China.
Shuster won bronze four years ago, helping bring more attention to this sport. It was the first U.S. curling medal at the Olympics and the first in a major men's competition since 1978. They couldn't build on it, though, losing three straight matches in extra ends.
CROSS-COUNTRY: Both team sprints -- a freestyle event with two skiers taking turns going three laps -- were decided in dashes to the finish.
Norway's Petter Northug did it in the men's event, pulling away from Germany's Axel Teichmann.
Americans Torin Koos and Andy Newell were ninth.
Germany won the women's team sprint when Claudia Nystad beat Sweden's Anna Haag across the line by 0.6 seconds. Americans Caitlin Compton and Kikkan Randall were sixth. Russia took bronze in both events.
SKI JUMPING: On his final jump in the team event, 20-year-old Gregor Schlierenzauer soared farther than anyone else in these Winter Games to wrap up the gold for Austria. This was his third medal; he won bronze in both individual events.
Switzerland's Simon Ammann, who won both individual events, didn't compete because his country didn't have the four jumpers needed for a team.
BIATHLON: Magdalena Neuner of Germany won't go for a third gold medal, pulling out of the relay today because of exhaustion.
Neuner said she is "happy and satisfied" with having won gold in the pursuit and mass start races, and silver in the sprint.
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