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O'REILLY PLAYED MAJOR ROLE FOR CANADA ON AND OFF THE ICE


lined up at center ice to take one last faceoff in Moscow, Russia on Sunday. He and Team Canada had just extended their lead to 2-0 over Finland with an empty-net goal in the Gold Medal Game, and only one second remained on the clock. This last draw was merely a formality.

Once that second ticked off the clock, O'Reilly, for the second year in a row, was a gold medalist at the IIHF World Championship.

"It's an amazing feeling," O'Reilly said on Tuesday. "To win two years in a row is pretty special and it's different because we had almost a completely different group of guys.