SOCHI, Russia – It happened in a flash near the end of Team Sweden practice; and in a flash, their gold medal hopes were nearly dashed, as goalie Henrik Lundqvist appeared to be injured.

Teammate Erik Karlsson wrecked into Lundqvist after chasing Loui Eriksson on a breakaway. He barreled into the goalie, sending Lundqvist on his back and silencing the training rink at Bolshoy Ice Dome. According to the Detroit Free Press’ Helene St. James, he skated over to the boards and watched the rest of practice, declining to speak with reporters after it.

"That's a tough thing," Daniel Alfredsson told the Freep, "because he really wanted to catch Loui on the breakaway and threw himself down, and Henrik was trying to make the save, and they just pummeled eachOn Friday's Real Time show on HBO, liberal comedian Bill Maher demonized newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch as a "right-wing asshole," a "Scalia clone," and someone who "has never shown any empathy toward a human being" before suggesting that "back alley abortions" might return.

He also accused Republicans of "cheating" to get him onto the Court, and of being motivated by racism in refusing to support former President Barack Obama's call for military action in Syria in 2013.

Maher took aim at Justice Gorsuch early in his monologue:

I don't know why you'd be happy today. Today is a day Republicans are happy. They got their two favorite things -- a right-wing asshole on the Supreme Court and Trump finally blowing some shit up.

A bit later, he made his