Olympics scripted a USA vs Canada gold medal game that featured a nearly identical OT result

Canadian hockey fans might've felt deja vu on Thursday, except not a good kind.

Just a day earlier, they celebrated a thrilling overtime win for their men's team to advance to the Olympic semifinals. But this time around, it was the women losing in the gold medal game to the United States in OT. Those results have more in common than they seem.

That's because they happened in nearly identical fashion.

Start near the end of regulation. Both teams that entered their games favored to win were trailing.

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Canada needed Nick Suzuki to throw himself in front of the net and deflect a long distance shot in for a game-tying goal with a couple minutes left to force overtime against Czechia.

The U.S. women were down 1-0 almost the whole game, and superstar Hilary Knight went straight to the front of the net, where she redirected a shot from Laila Edwards in with about two minutes to go to send the game to extra time.

Then the game-winning goals were quite similar, too.

For the Canadian men, Mitch Marner drove down the center of the ice, cut past a defender, and flipped in a backhand shot as a righty shooter.

The reason the Team USA women's goal looked a little different is because Megan Keller is a lefty shot. 

But he got a long pass, drove left, cut to her backhand side, then flipped it in that way.

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Two deflected goals in front of net to force OT. Two brilliant backhand goals to win in overtime.

One blissful for Canada, the other anything but.

Sports are crazy like that sometimes.

Obviously, there's no script. And that's what makes it the best, agony and ecstasy all in one.

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