You can find lots of words to describe Thursday's gold medal game between Canada and the United States in Olympic women's hockey: a clash of the titans, perhaps, or a battle among equals.
Just about anything would have been better than what former NHL star Mike Modano tweeted as Canada advanced to the final on Monday:
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Modano, who won a silver medal with Team USA after losing 5-2 to Canada at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, was pilloried on Twitter for his comment.
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For his part, Modano recognized that the tweet offended some people, though he didn't seem particularly sorry:
Seriously though, Mike, you call THIS a cat fight? This is brutality at its height:
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