The aftermath of an Olympic hockey tournament is invariably shot through with a sense of melancholy. From gold medal winners to gold medal losers (as everyone tells you, you win a bronze, you lose a gold), to all the teams that slowly fall by the wayside as an Olympic tournament progresses, there is a universal feeling of wishing that it didn’t have to be over. That feeling akin to the end of summer vacation, Christmas holidays and New Year’s Eve all rolled into one. “Just empty.