U.S. Hockey

The U.S. came into the quarterfinals as the #1 seed in the Hockey tournament after beating Canada 5-3 in a great game that rounded out the preliminaries. Not sure whether it was tightness or overconfidence but the U.S. looked tight during their quarterfinal match against Switzerland.But Zach Parise put all that frustration aside, deflecting a wrist shot from Brian Rafalski early in the third period. He then scored into an empty net to seal a 2-0 quarterfinal win that sends the U.S. to Friday's semifinals against Finland, which beat the Czech Republic 2-0.

"The goalie was great and we did a good job of sticking with it. We were pretty confident and said just keep putting pucks at him," said Parise, who failed to score on his first 13 shots of the tournament.

Ryan Miller made 19 saves to backstop the victory and move the Americans within two wins of their first men's hockey gold medal in 30 years.