On the penultimate day of the Sochi games, the US team do not medal for the first day of the Olympics. The men's hockey team lose to Finland and a American wins a medal for Russia. Team USA won its first four games, but were shut out in their next two, both losses. The American men's hockey team failed to medal in Sochi.(Photo: Winslow Townson, USA TODAY Sports) SHARE 50 CONNECT EMAILMORE SOCHI, Russia The U.S. team was one day away from history. After winning a medal on every day of the Winter Olympics, the streak ended Saturday on Day 14. Thanks to the men's hockey team, which played as if the Americans wanted to be anywhere else but in the bronze-medal game against Finland. As the NHL and players' union debate future involvement in the Olympics, the 5-0 loss made a statement. With only a bronze medal at stake, were the American stars more concerned with rejoining their NHL teams instead of showing up at the Bolshoy Ice Dome? "I'm kind of embarrass
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