On paper, Team Europe shouldn’t have stood a chance in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey Final, but as the saying goes: this is why they play the games. Boy did they ever make the final an interesting one.
“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard,” Kevin Durant once said. Now, that’s not to say that Team Europe lacks talent, or that Canada didn’t try at all, but there is no denying which team worked harder in what threatened to be a snooze fest upset until the last five minutes of the game.