July 20, 2010
Men's Olympic team, Paralympic goalie garner ESPYs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The 2010 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team and U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team goalie Steve Cash (Overland, Mo.) were honored at the 2010 ESPY Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Team USA received its award for playing in the year's Best Game, while Cash was named the Best Male Athlete with a Disability.
In Team USA's 2010 Olympic Winter Games gold-medal showdown with Canada in Vancouver, B.C., Zach Parise (Minneapolis, Minn.) scored with just 24 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the score, 2-2, and send the game into overtime. Despite Team USA's eventual loss, the largest television audience for a hockey game in 30 years witnessed the U.S. culminate one of its most successful Olympic runs ever and capture its second silver medal in three Olympic Winter Games.
Meanwhile, Cash backstopped the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team to its second-ever Paralympic gold medal at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C. He achieved what no other sled hockey goaltender has ever done by not allowing a single goal throughout the tournament. He turned aside all 33 shots faced in the five games of the Paralympics.
Among the attendees for the U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team were head coach Ron Wilson, Patrick Kane (Buffalo, N.Y.), Ryan Miller (East Lansing, Mich.) and Parise.
"I'm extremely happy that the fans thought we had the greatest game of the year," said Wilson. "That's pretty cool."
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