U.S. beats Canada in thrilling and nail-biting gold medal final at Winter Olympics

The U.S. men's hockey team beat Canada 2-1 in a thrilling and nail-biting Olympic final game exactly 46 years ago after Team USA beat the Soviet Union on the road to its last gold medal.

Jack Hughes scored 1:41 into overtime to give the U.S. its third men's title.

"We are so proud to be American," he told an NBC News correspondent. 

Unlike that ragtag group of college kids that pulled off one of the biggest upsets in sports history at the Lake Placid Games in 1980, the Americans...