Winter Olympics 2014, Day 10: USA tops Russia in dramatic shootout

United States 3, Russia 2 (USA wins shootout 4-3 in 8 rounds)

Switzerland 1, Czech Republic 0

Noora Raty has been a star for Finland during the women’s ice hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics, but her heroics were not enough to get Finland to the semifinals this year, as Sweden won 4-2 on the back of a 29-save performance from Valentina Wallner in goal.

Pernilla Winberg, who notched three assists for Sweden and played 27:21, was easily Sweden’s best player. Finnish captain Jenni Hiirikoski played 30:37, but couldn’t make the difference for Finland.

The coolest feature of the $180 million Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi is that it displays the final scores of games on its roof:

The Olympics are where heroes are made, and T.J. Oshie just became the latest.

The St. Louis Blues forward and Warroad, Minn. native has always been strong in shootouts in the NHL, but in a league where that tiebreaker is looked at as a giant gimmick, it’s not a talent that’s all too heralded. But with an IIHF shootout format that allows players to shoot over and over and over and over again, coach Dan Bylsma stuck with his big gun, and it eventually paid off in a 3-2 American victory.

Russia and the Netherlands sit tied atop the overall medal count Saturday after impressive performances on skates. Victor An and Vladimir Grigorev went 1-2 in the men’s 1,000-meter short track to briefly give Russia sole possession of first place at 14 medals. Dutchman Sjinkie Knegt took third in the event, then Koen Verwij took silver in men’s 1,500-meter speed skating to put the Netherlands in a tie with Russia.

The United States and Norway were tied atop the standings heading into Saturday. They still sit at 13 medals.

As the United States and Russia took the ice for their hockey matchup on Saturday morning, Russia took the lead for Olympic medals with its work on the speed skating track.

In the men’s 1000-meter speed skating event, Victor An won the gold medal and Vladimir Grigoerv won silver for Russia, and the Netherlands’ Sjinkie Knegt won the bronze. The highest American finisher in the event was Chris Creveling, who came in 10th.

Why not? During the shift on an earlier shot, Quick exploded to his left laterally in order to make a save on a Russian shot, and his skate hit the post and jarred it out of the moorings. You can see the that the net is off as the puck beats Quick here:

As you can see inside the green circle, the piece of the post that goes into the hole in the ice that holds the net in place is horizontal long the ice, meaning the net is off.

Russian skicross racer Maria Komissarova suffered a spine injury during training on Saturday and is currently in surgery.

Komissarova is only 23 years old and the injury is considered to be serious. The Associated Press is reporting that she has suffered a broken spine. Komissarova has been taken to a hospital which was specially built for the Olympics and the doctors decided it was necessary to operate.

All gifs courtesy of @PeteBlackburn on twitter.

• SB Nation’s Winter Olympics medal tracker | Meet Team USA

Barkov suffered the injury in yesterday’s game against Norway, a 6-1 win for Finland, during which Barkov played 15:03 and registered 3 shots on goal. Barkov will finish the tournament with 1 assist, 4 shots, and 2 PIM in 2 games played.

• SB Nation’s Winter Olympics medal tracker | Meet Team USA

You were sleeping Saturday morning? Who does that? Well, here’s what you may have missed while you were doing something other than watching the Olympics. You’re welcome.

Super-G is one of the wildest skiing events of the Olympics. During the final in Sochi, seven of the first eight riders on the course were unable to finish. Blame it on soft snow, or maybe just bad luck, but the early crashes set the stage for Austrian dominance in the event.

Austria continued its reign of dominance in Olympic super-G on Saturday. A total of 24 medals have been handed out since the event was added to the Winter Olympics in 1988, and the Austrians have now won eight of those medals after securing gold and bronze in Sochi.

Anna Fenninger took the gold with a time of 1:25.52, nosing ahead of silver medalist Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany by 0.55 seconds. Fenninger’s country-mate, Nicole Hosp, was just 0.66 seconds out of first and 0.11 seconds out of silver, earning the bronze.

Day 10 of the Winter Olympics is well underway. Although there may not be a lot of marquee sports taking place on Saturday, there are still plenty of interesting events going on, with seven medal events set to take place. In addition, there are a bunch of ice hockey and curling matches on the schedule, and the American hockey team gets back in action after having Friday off.

Here are the top events to watch for on Saturday.

What in the world has happened to the Slovakian hockey program?

After finishing in fourth place just four years ago at the Vancouver Olympics, Slovakia has been perhaps the worst team through two games of the 2014 tournament. As if their blowout loss to the United States on Thursday wasn’t bad enough, they were completely dominated by Slovenia on Saturday in a 3-1 loss.

It’s the United States. It’s Russia. It’s hockey. Twice. OK, they don’t play twice in one day -- that would be dumb -- but the NBC Sports Network is airing the game live at 7 a.m. ET, then again for all the people who can’t, y’know, wake up that early and watch a full hockey game at 6 p.m. Set your alarms or your DVRs, whatever it takes. If we play our cards right, Mike Eruzione is going to charge out of the stands onto the ice without his shirt on during the second period and try to steal Alex Ovechkin’s stick. DO IT, MIKE.

On the women’s side of the ice -- not that we advocate segregating the ice by gender into sides, it’s just an expression -- you can also watch two quarterfinal games live on Saturday, with Scandinavian rivals Sweden and Finland locking horns (what horns?) at 3 a.m. and Russia facing Switzerland at 7:30 a.m. Both of those games are on MSNBC. Winner of Sweden-Finland gets control of the Gulf of Bothnia for a year.

Here’s all the things on skis for Saturday. All times Eastern.

2 a.m.: Women’s Super-G