Californians hit the bars before breakfast to cheer on US Olympic hockey team: ‘Freaking out’

Source: New York Post

While most of Los Angeles was still tucked under their duvets Sunday morning, O’Brien’s Irish Pub was already rocking. The Santa Monica staple threw its doors open at 5 am to host a rowdy, bleary-eyed crowd of hockey die-hards for the Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey gold medal match. In a heart-stopping game that capped off the Milan-Cortina Games, the US edged out the Canadians with a 2-1 overtime victory, securing the gold and sending a shockwave of “U.