Canada declares war on Switzerland

[Asher]

Henrik Lunqvist: choke.
Jaroslav Halak: clutch.

If I were Montreal this tournament seals the deal. Trade Price, keep Halak.

[Asher]

Yes, sorta.
It was painfull to watch such a disaster. My congrats Canada you have your revenge now. And we have the best motivation for Sochi-2014.

It never ends this sh!t.

Russia did deserve better. It should've been Canada - Russia in the finals, with Russia getting the silver.

It's very unfortunate how the tournament played out.

Though now it's turning around for Canada. Slovakia is a much more desirable target than Sweden...

[Guynemer]

How did Russia deserve better, exactly? They played with no heart. They were outplayed by the Slovaks, and then absolutely demolished by the Canadians. They got exactly what they deserved.

[-Jrabbit]

Russia did deserve better. It should've been Canada - Russia in the finals, with Russia getting the silver.

It's very unfortunate how the tournament played out.

That's kind of funny. Wasn't it Canada that prevented a Russia-Canada final, by losing to the US?

[Asher]

That's kind of funny. Wasn't it Canada that prevented a Russia-Canada final, by losing to the US?

Russia also prevented a Russia-Canada final by losing to Slovakia.

[Asher]

How did Russia deserve better, exactly? They played with no heart. They were outplayed by the Slovaks, and then absolutely demolished by the Canadians. They got exactly what they deserved.

I meant the Russian people, mostly.

The problem with the Russian team was mostly the coach. I don't know who this guy is (probably some KHL coach), but he does NOT know how to coach a team. Nabokov should've been pulled long before he was. The matchups should've changed after the first couple goals by Canada early in the game. The coach didn't change **** all while Canada demolished the team. Their team was capable of more.

The other problem was the Russian defense. These guys just didn't care.

[MRT144]

I meant the Russian people, mostly.

The problem with the Russian team was mostly the coach. I don't know who this guy is (probably some KHL coach), but he does NOT know how to coach a team. Nabokov should've been pulled long before he was. The matchups should've changed after the first couple goals by Canada early in the game. The coach didn't change **** all while Canada demolished the team. Their team was capable of more.

The other problem was the Russian defense. These guys just didn't care.

Defense is for sissies that want to win, not powermad putinesque machohomo russian hockey players.

[Asher]

http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/771298--russia-whines-about-cowardly-canada

Russia whines about 'cowardly' Canada

The next Winter Olympics is shaping up as a Cold War-style battle between Canada and Russia after a blistering editorial in Pravda labeled us as a nation of cowardly, incompetent war criminals.

The editorial, entitled Vancouver: Mutton Dressed as Lamb, goes straight for the eyes from the outset. “Vancouver is not fit to hold the Winter Olympics,” it declares in the opening paragraph.

And that was before Canada whipped Russia in the hockey quarter finals. Today, the site was less expansive.

“The Red Machine Runs into a Maple Tree,” was Pravda’s headline. Other newspaper banners across Russia included “Nightmare in Vancouver” and “Down and Out.”

Reading back on Pravda’s screed, the schadenfreude will be thick for Canadian supporters. The website’s main athletic complaint is about a short-notice drug test issued to Russian skier Natalya Korosteleva. It neglects to mention that VANOC organizers have no input into the drug-testing regime of any particular sporting body.

It also impugns us for the decision to give the gold medal in men’s figure skating to American Evan Lysacek over Russian Evgeni Plushenko – as if we had some say in that, either.

The writer, Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, seems mainly distressed by Canada’s political aims.

“We all know Canada has problems with the future lines drawn on Arctic maps and we all know Canada lives in the shadow of its larger neighbour to the south,” he writes about something we don’t all know.

Had he left it there, we might have shrugged it off. But then it gets personal.

“The abject cruelty shown by Canadian soldiers in international conflicts is scantily referred to, as indeed is the utter incapacity of this county to host a major international event, due to its inferiority complex, born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to a beefy United States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom, whose Queen smiles happily from Canadian postage stamps.”

Wow.

“Maybe it is this which makes the Canadians so … retentive, or cowardly.”

Double-wow.

While the British press has been no fan of these games, even they were taken aback by the viciousness of Pravda’s attack.

“Even more diligent critics of Vancouver 2010 have been astonished by the editorial,” the Times of London wrote today.

Last night, Russian hockey stars were being … well … Russian about their loss.

“We wanted to play as well as we could, but things turned out … you know the rest yourselves … like always,” Alexander Ovechkin told Sport Express.

Pravda notes that Ovechkin’s queer phrasing is a takeoff on a famed political quote, the “like always” used popularly to lament Russia’s frequent sporting letdowns. In that, at least, Toronto and our Russian friends have some common ground.

Asked about rumours that his charges had been enjoying Vancouver’s nightlife a little too much, Russian coach Vyacheslav Bykov rounded on the media.

“Let's get the guillotine or the gallows out, yeah?” Bykov sneered at Sovietski Sport. “We have 35 people in the squad. Let’s cut them all up on Red Square.”

[Drake Tungsten]

Jesus, is there any better evidence of how far Russia has fallen than the fact that their new Cold War rival is Canada?

[Asher]

And just to be clear to Ben, Iginla has the most goals in the whole Olympic tournament right now (5G). Not just the most on Team Canada.

There's a few other guys with 4G, though. Including Heatley.

[Asher]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has cancelled his visit to Vancouver to attend the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics on Sunday evening, CBC News has learned.

[rah]

Talk about sour grapes. How hilarious.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Russians are terrible sports, in addition to being murderous savages and drunken wife beaters.

[Ben Kenobi]

due to its inferiority complex, born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to a beefy United States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom, whose Queen smiles happily from Canadian postage stamps

At least our Queen is alive and well, not buried in a Siberian grave.

[Drake Tungsten]

Dead monarchs.