VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The United States won only one medal at the Vancouver Olympics on Monday, a silver in ice dancing. Yet there was some significance to it.

With 25 medals, Americans have won as many as they have at any Winter Games not held in the United States, matching their haul from Turin in 2006.

The record is all-but-broken, too, because the women's hockey team has advanced to the gold-medal game, meaning they can get no worse than silver. They will face Canada Thursday.

The next big number for the Americans: 34, their record for medals won at any Winter Olympics, set at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

There are six days and 35 events left to try piling them up.

Otherwise, the big news Monday was the fallout from the U.S. men's hockey victory over Canada the day before, including Canada deciding to change goaltenders.

Roberto Luongo will be in goal Tuesday against Germany, with Martin Brodeur watching from the bench.

The ongoing reverberations started with the head of Canada's Olympic committee conceding that his country wasn't going to win the medals race, a huge proclamation considering they spent $117 million over five years to "Own the Podium." The white flag wasn't raised directly because of the hockey game, but the timing makes you wonder.

"We'd be living in a fool's paradise if we said we were going to catch the Americans and win," COC head Chris Rudge said.

In the afternoon, TV ratings were released, and the game was the most-watched sporting event in Canadian television history and it tied the 2008 elections for the most-watched event on MSNBC.

Other events fed off the U.S.-Canada hockey game. For instance, Canada's men's curling team beat the Americans 5-3, eliminating them from the tournament, then one of the Canadian curlers called it "some redemption for the hockey team."

Oh, don't forget the other connection Monday: Happy 30th anniversary to Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and the "Miracle on Ice" club.

"It was more than a hockey game to a lot of people," Craig said. "As you get older ... it becomes more and more important to us."

Also Monday, Germany made a big move to try catching the United States in the medals race, tying the Americans for the most gold (seven) and getting to 21 overall.

The Germans won the women's cross-country team sprint and got silver in the men's team sprint and in ski jumping.

Skip John Shuster's team got an early lead over Canada, but wound up losing 7-2 in a shortened match. Then the Americans fell 11-5 to China, ending their Olympics with a 2-7 record.Shuster won bronze four years ago, helping bring more attention to this sport. It was the first U.S. curling medal at the Olympics and the first in a major men's competition since 1978. They couldn't build on it, though, losing three straight matches in extra ends (which are like innings in baseball).

On his final jump in the team event, 20-year-old Gregor Schlierenzauer soared farther than anyone else in these Winter Games to wrap up the gold for Austria. This was his third medal; he won bronze in both individual events.

More changes are coming to the Whistler Sliding Center, this time to shave the ice in several tricky curves in hopes of making the track easier for bobsledders to navigate.Changes came after a two sleds crashed during supplemental training.The women's event is today and Wednesday, with the men's four-man event Friday and Saturday.