The holidays, the World Juniors, which always begin in December, and other events make this the most lovely time of the year. Young, talented athletes are given the privilege to compete and represent their country in the chase of a gold medal.
As the clock was running down, the Americans' frustrations began to boil up. Chaos would erupt in the last seconds. An American player was brutally cross-checked in the face by a Slovakian player, who was afterwards ejected from the match.
When the American fan grabbed the Slovakian player's stick as he was being ejected from the game, the Slovakian player appeared to have offered it to him on the way out before ripping it out of his hands and yelling something before running off to his own locker room.