Canada declares war on Switzerland

[Guynemer]

I suspect Canada's army has superior training, equipment, morale, and sobriety.

Fixed.

Eh. I could absolutely be wrong, but given the state of Russia, I'd imagine they'd still be playing with rusting, less-than-perfectly-maintained Cold War relics.

[Guynemer]

My take on this is that Canada, widely acknowledged as the most talented team (with Russia gone, certainly) in the tournament, has finally found their game and are clicking. With home support, momentum and confidence, I expect them to roll through their final two games.

The US will need a lights-out game from Miller in goal to survive. And their semi is no walk in the park. So I guess I agree with pchang.

But I freely admit to being a hockey idiot - certainly compared to you lot.

Actually, this sounds 100% correct.

[Guynemer]

The Canadian Lesbians are up 2-0 on the American Lesbians with 9 mins to go in the Gold Medal Game.

Sounds as if the Canadian Lesbians have the Americans licked.

Americans are going down.

The U.S. goalie tried her best to stem the Canadian tide, but her finger in the dike simply wasn't enough.

Well played, gentlemen. That's what I get for not reading the whole thread before replying to earlier posts. Please continue your cunning linguistics.

[Drake Tungsten]

Eh. I could absolutely be wrong, but given the state of Russia, I'd imagine they'd still be playing with rusting, less-than-perfectly-maintained Cold War relics.

So are the Canadians. At least the Russians have a lot of their junk.

[Berzerker]

Chekov's son is the 3rd victim of the olympic curse

[Ben Kenobi]

2. In a short tourney it is highly relevent to analyze trends in play and how the team looked in their last game-- your method doesn't look at that at all

Out past a game or so the trend doesn't benefit Canada.

[Flubber]

Out past a game or so the trend doesn't benefit Canada.

Ben do you understand what a "trend' is?

How has Canada's offence looked in the past two games compared to the two prior?

How has canada's goaltending looked in the past two games compared to the two games prior?

Those are trends

[Drake Tungsten]

Those are trends

Actually, they aren't.

[Ben Kenobi]

Yes, and it's not fair to compare team USA who did not play the same day as Canada. Yes, Canada outplayed them yesterday, for the first time all tournament.

[Asher]

Yes, and it's not fair to compare team USA who did not play the same day as Canada. Yes, Canada outplayed them yesterday, for the first time all tournament.

My head just exploded.

It's quite a statement to say Canada just outplayed the USA yesterday.

[Ben Kenobi]

Canada gets a little home-ice advantage for a bronze. Up to 17, with medals in curling to come. So at least 19 now for Canada.

[Ben Kenobi]

My head just exploded.

There's pills for that you know!

[Asher]

http://www.nj.com/olympics/index.ssf/2010/02/canadian_womens_hockey_celebra.html

Canadian women's hockey celebration with cigars and beer draws scrutiny from International Olympic Committee

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Canadian women’s hockey team is in hot water after its impromptu on-ice celebration Thursday night. The gold-medal party has drawn the ire of the International Olympic Committee.
Nearly an hour after the Canadians won their third consecutive Olympic gold medal with a 2-0 win over the Americans, the players came back out on the ice in the near-empty arena, smoking cigars and swigging champagne and beer. (Rebecca Johnston even tried to drive the zamboni.)
Star-Ledger photographer Andy Mills captured 18-year-old Marie-Philip Poulin, who scored both goals in the gold-medal game, drinking Molson Canadian beer. Poulin doesn't turn 19 – the legal drinking age in British Columbia – until next month. The Canadian team trains in Alberta, where the legal drinking age is 18.
The IOC said it would look into the matter.
"I don't think it's a good promotion of sport values," Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director of the Olympics, told the Associated Press after learning about the celebration. "If they celebrate in the changing room, that's one thing, but not in public. We will investigate what happened."
Hockey Canada apologized for the team’s behavior in the following statement:
''The members of Team Canada apologize if their on-ice celebrations, after fans had left the building, have offended anyone. In the excitement of the moment, the celebration left the confines of our dressing room and shouldn't have. The team regrets that its gold medal celebration may have caused the IOC or COC any embarrassment.”
Canadian Olympic Committee spokesman Steve Keough said the COC didn’t provide the alcohol.
"In terms of the actual celebration, it's not exactly something uncommon in Canada," Keough told the AP. "I think Canadians understand it's quite an emotional moment for our team. It was not our intention to go against any IOC protocols."
The women’s hockey players aren’t the first Canadians to celebrate with alcohol during these Games. Skeleton athlete Jon Montgomery took to the streets of Whistler with a pitcher of beer earlier in the week after he won gold.

[rah]

'The members of Team Canada apologize if their on-ice celebrations, after fans had left the building, have offended anyone

If the fans were still there, I'd have a problem with it, but the building had emptied out so what the heck. But again it's not that they did it but that someone got a picture and posted it.

[Flubber]

tempest in a teapot if you ask me-- I would be shocked if the players hadn't had some drinks. Why do they publish such photos?

I mean whats the newsflash here-- 'athletes party after big win"????


Wow thats NEWS to me !!