This was a Olympic gold-medal ice hockey match that won’t be soon forgotten to say the least. The Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) needed a powerplay goal in overtime to beat Germany 4-3 to win gold. Germany were left with the silver medal, disappointing on the night, but the country’s best-ever finish in men’s ice hockey. It was a truly heroic effort from the German underdogs against the highly favored Russians, who were competing under a neutral flag due to the ban imposed on their country over allegations of a state-sponsored doping system. Comebacks from two deficits Twice Germany bounced back from setback, the first coming with less than a second left to play in the first period, when Russian defenseman Vyacheslav Voinov drew first blood. Read more: German hockey team’s strong Olympics comes as no big surprise The Germans, though, came back with the equalizer in the first minute of the second, Felix Schütz being awarded the goal, a soft one for the Russian netminder to concede. The Russians went into the lead again early in the third, when Nikita Gusev threaded the needle over Gemany goalie Danny Aus den Birken’s shoulder from a bad angle, to make it…