The game is a wrap... and the US won by 2... by a score of 25-23. We're off to a team meeting, and more info will follow in 15 minutes.

Thus far at the Worlds, the US has beaten their opponents by comfortable margins, ranging from 8 in the New Zealand game to 36 in their game against Denmark.  In fact, their average margin of victory has been over 16 points coming in to this crossover game against Canada, who they beat my a mere two goals.

A win is a win though, and the Americans will be in their fourth consecutive World Championship gold medal match tomorrow against the winner of the Great Britain / New Zealand game.

The game was marked with an unusual amount of unforced errors by both teams, and the game was there for the taking by either side.

Q1   6 - 7
Q2   4 - 5
Q3   6 - 5
Q4   7 - 8

The NZL - GB game is in the 4th quarter, and still close with New Zealand leading 19-17 with less than six minutes left in the game ... GB is running with their 2.5 - 2.5 - 2.5 - 0.5 lineup of Collins-Ash-Morrison-Coggan. The Kiwis are running with 3-2-2-1 with Buckingham-Johnson-Tinker-Oughton.