US-Canada Gold Medal Game on

[Asher]

Don Cherry is hilarious.

[Seeker]

"And I do so look forward to Don Cherry... Canada's answer to Wiglaf"

LOL I loved when he was talking about what a genius mario is, then Mario lets that one go by....TV got a great shot of it, especially Mario's "eyyy' gesture...

[KrazyHorse]

Guynie

No, Chretien didn't really make any gaffes; he just mumbled for a few minutes. I managed to pick out the words "proud" "gold medal" and "congratulations".

[Moral Hazard]

I don't know if any one mentioned it or not but NBC really pissed me off. They would constantly cut to commercials during the 15 second breaks; meaning I kept losing parts of the game. Of course they had to run commercials so I guess, I'm more pissed about the 15 second face off rule.

[KrazyHorse]

CBC did the same thing during previous games, but I didn't seem to notice it during the final. If they'd missed a goal then we might have reinstated the death penalty specifically for them...

[Serb]

Congratulations.
Well done Canada.

[Serb]

Oops, double post, sorry.
Anyway it was cool game.
Congratulations once again.

[KrazyHorse]

This is not meant to be mean-spirited or vindictive

Hey, Serb:did you hear about this?

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/news/muehlegg020224

EDIT: congrats to the Russians for taking it to the Belorussians.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Juggernaut
Sweden was the only team to beat Canada in the tourney... So you might as well say we are olympic champions...

Canada wasn't really playing that game. Who knows what happened.

The cool thing about the tourney was each game Canada got way better, up through this very last game.

It's going to be really hard to going back to watching regular NHL after this. Especially since Iginla and Turek (supposed to be the third goalie for Czech) are the only really "good" players on the local team.

[Asher]

Originally posted by kassiopeia
Oh, that's nice. Sleigh riding was a medal machine? I can't remember any other sports. Maybe Curling.

Canada got Golds in:

• Pairs Figure Skating (Pelletier and Sale)
  
• Men's Ice Hockey
  
• Women's Ice Hockey
  
• Men's 500m Shorttrack (Marc Gagnon)
  
• Men's 5000m Shorttrack relay
  
• Ladies 500m longtrack speedskating (Catriona Le May Doan)

We probably would have gotten 500m men's longtrack speedskating as well had Jeremy Wotherspoon not have fallen on the fourth stride.

And for some really odd reason our Curling teams both screwed up bigtime in the only games that really matter.

Every sport we do well in involves skates.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Asher
It's going to be really hard to going back to watching regular NHL after this. Especially since Iginla and Turek (supposed to be the third goalie for Czech) are the only really "good" players on the local team.

So what is it about the Czech Republic that produces good goalies? Hockey isn't even close to being the most popular sport there, but they pump out way more quality goalies than Sweden, Finland... hell, maybe even Russia and the U.S.

Anyway, huge congrats to Canada on a great Olympics. I remember watching CBC early on, they were having one of those "Bell Connection" thingies, and the question was "What do you think of Canada's showing thus far?" And the vast majority thought Canada had blown it, big time. I kept thinking, "Damn, it's still early folks..."

Way to turn it around.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Guynemer


So what is it about the Czech Republic that produces good goalies? Hockey isn't even close to being the most popular sport there, but they pump out way more quality goalies than Sweden, Finland... hell, maybe even Russia and the U.S.

You could easily ask the same question about French-Canadian goalies. It's bizarre sometimes to compare the number of goalies from quebec to the total number of players from quebec.

[Flubber]

A couple of things

1. CBC played no commercials at all during the 15 second breaks-- it was one of the first things I noticed

2. The win prevents another round of examining the state of Canadian hockey by various critics and pundits as happened after the medal-less showing in Nagano. People forget how well Canada had played up until Hasek just beat them in a game Canada dominated

3. The premise that Sweden deserves some credit for beating Canada in the early round is idiotic. -- The set-up is such that to a large extent, the first 3 games were irrelevant-- To be a champion you have to win the games that matter.

4. herb Brooks derserves a lot of credit for his extended winning streak but at his after-game press conference he did say one thing that I didn't respect. Among some praise for Canada he mentioned how his players were pretty banged up after the Russia game and that " for the life of me I don't understand how they do the seedings"-- Canada had Finland- Belarus while the Us had germany -Russia- since Finland had finished ahead of Russia in the prelims, its hard to see his complaint.


5 Women's hockey-- I just can't wait for the next battles-- There is a greta rivalry there.

[General Ludd]

*WARNING* Incoming pun.

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


You could easily ask the same question about French-Canadian goalies. It's bizarre sometimes to compare the number of goalies from quebec to the total number of players from quebec.

Maybe it's because people are always taking shots at the french?

[pchang]

Seeding Correct

The seeding was correct. No one really expected Belarus to beat Sweden. That is the excitement of single elimination tournaments.