It does come down to one thing though, you guys beat us, and to that, I say Congratulations!

But you guys did play horribly, most of the game, but were smart enough to take advantage of perfection in your own net, and failure in ours!

I do feel bad for the heat Brodeur is getting today though, he didnt put himself in net, his coach did.

Didn't put himself in the net? You think he woulda chose to sit if he was given the choice?

So the top 4 are US, Russia, Sweden and ???? There is a 2 way tie for 4th but I don't know what the tie breaker is. Finland and Czech Republic both have 6 points.

Ever play hockey dude?

You dont say no. You say 'You got it, coach'.. Kinda like the military. You can blame a player, and they often deserve it, but the coach should have pulled him after the second goal. It was obvious from the start he wasnt on his game.

When brodeur is on fire, he cant be beaten. But you can tell if he's having a good game or not within minutes of the game starting. And within 10 minutes, it was obvious it wasnt his night.

I understand what you're saying. I know he wouldn't sit. Who would? And I know how good he can be. How many times has he shut out the Pens this year?....atleast twice.

Yup, difference is, in the NHL, you get 80 games to prove yourself, not so in the olympics. Nobody really notices a a bad game so much in regular season. In the olympics, you get a couple of games, and you gotta be at your best.

Speaking of NHL...when do the playoffs officially start?

This.

Wrong.

And this!

This girl can talk hockey! :rockwoot:

April 11 is the end of the regular season.

Sweet. Thanks.

Cool.:dthumb:

Of course you can! Your a Canadian girl!

(Even if you were a figure skater instead of hockey player :barf)

Not by choice buddy. Not by choice. :(

But I can still do pretty spins and jumps when I go skating with friends! :lmao:

Because my foot is so fucked up from being burned, I cant put on a skate without it tearing the skin apart :( And its probably permanent, I might never skate again :(

Oh man. I'm sorry. :(

To a Canadian....this is like saying you may never have maple syrup again....only worse!

Its like losing your first love, but worse! Because hockey is more important than love!

It'd be like Timmy Ho's going out of business.

Oh god, there would be riots!



Thankfully its the most successful Canadian start up ever, lol.

USA won but I've definitely seen better games. I agree Apoc, had the Canadian Goalie been more on his game things would probably have turned out differently.

Truth!

Our umemployment rate would soar! :lol:

Well, Canada you asked for it and you got it...

Luongo takes over

http://sports.espn.go.com/olympics/w...ory?id=4937426

Definitely a sloppy looking game on the USA's part but a win is a win!!:pat::pat:

USA vs SUI..... at 3PM? WTF? :skep:

Thought I read it was at noon or some shit. I might try to stream it online.

Noon local time. 3PM eastern.

Just read that Bettman threatened to take NHL off of NBC if they didn't move the games to broadcast. I'm not sure if thats true, or if he can eve do that with the tv contracts. But either way, I hope all games are on the network from now on.

Too bad they are having a hard time playing together.

If Apoc thinks we looked good against USA, then the Russians are going to crush us. Canada had trouble beating the freaking Swiss fer chrissakes.

If Canada doesn't learn to play together, Russia will get gold.

Lasts nights game had a decent second period and a good third period, but if they want to beat real teams, they need to play excellent for 3 periods.

We controlled the puck most of the game, everywhere but in front of the net. I agree they played like crap against the swiss, and I expected them to have trouble getting used to playing together.

From hash mark to hash mark the game was ours, but those last 10 feet eluded us the whole game. They played with the US in their zone, everywhere but in front of the net.

There were some stupid plays stumbles throughout the game. But it was ours to lose, and its still on Brodeurs back.

watch nbc now.

go usa, good game

Miller won em another one.

come on...he had like what 10 shots on goal the whole game. I'd more likely say that the Swiss offense lost that game. The Swiss goalie had what like 30+ saves? Either way it was a really good game.

Thats how we shoulda been doing it all along. Rush hard, and complete short passes in front of the net.

We gave up 2 goals to letting Luongo get screened, and still had a couple of fumbles, but the goaltending was brilliant. The main line for both teams got shut down hard, btu thats not a bad thing. And I loved seeing Malkin lose to the Canadians on our own ice!

Nice to see them play together a little better.

Womens gold. But that was a sure thing anyway.

Some hot girlies on both teams. Some hags too though!

Grats to Canada's womens team!

3PM eastern the puck drops. Go USA.

On the network by any chance?

Cnbc afaik

Dammit. I hate NBC.

I get CNBC in HD so I'm ok with it. Just leave work early and head to a sports bar. I guarantee it will be on there.

Leave work early: Check. I'm not even going in today.

You're set then. You can always watch it online.

I just looked it up, The 3pm game will be on NBC, it's the later game that will be on CNBC.

SWEET! I'm watching that shit.

USA USA USA USA

Bring on canaduh:rockwoot:

I started a thread in off topic. They are smoking the Finns.

Just dont expect us to chant USA like we did for the women when they were recieving their silver, when its your turn. I would actually expect a pretty loud CANADA chant throughout the ceremony.

It will be electric, and there will be more beer cosumed by 30 million canucks than there was by 300 million americans during the superbowl! :lol:

It won't be because you won a gold, it will be because you have nothing else to look forward to being in Canada and all. I know how it works, I live in rural Tennessee. We don't have much to look forward to besides good riding days either.

HA! Speak for yourself Sugartits. I live in the sprawling metropolis of Halifax..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz88kJSdT6Y

Metropolis, I am 20 minutes from NYC so I guess I am spoled :lol:

You sound jealous. :dthumb:

OMG...it's fucking puppy.

LOL that was good

Not really, my family is invading you. My parents are moving to Calgary. So it sucks to be you. You can keep them.

Please don't visit.

Afraid he may stay :lol:

Calgary has an awesome hot chick to everything else ratio.

I may even bring a piece of fine german machinery with me.

Your wife's german? :skep:

Lets go Slovakia!

Nice.:lol:

ha ha, no, considering a GS trip up to Canada to visit them.

You can send the GS to visit, but we'd prefer you didnt come yourself! redflip

:lol:

2-2 .. going into OT. Crazy game!! :tremble:

Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well you didn't make it easy on us....but we got through. True north strong and free takes the gold on home soil!!!!

Go Canada!

Was wondering why these were all getting bumped to the top. Glad this sport is dead again, now we can move on to better ones like SBK.

Take your silver, and GET THE FUCK OUT!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Fuck you with your flappy jaws and beady little eyes :nee:

WSBK started this weekend, at Phillip Island. Looked like a good race. I recorded it and will watch it later.

Ill say it again, GOLD MOTHERFUCKERS! GOLD!

Goddamn, what a game!! Congrats Canada!

Thank you! You just went up a few notches in my books. Only respectable response.

It could've gone either way and I think that game gave me an ulcer. GREAT game!

Miller kept em in it as long as he could. Not too shabby for a team that wasnt supposed to medal.

This isn't Canada. This is a USA forum. Us dirty bastard Americans can command you out. :nee:

I will say it's nice that North America now owns the gold and overall medal records. Those bastard Europeans decline is now complete for olympic reasons.

good game

And we won the gold in 4 man bobsled :rockwoot:

It was a very good game!

But, not in hockey! :p

Youre damn lucky youre bigger than me otherwise I would head up therer and kick your ass :lol:


They should make it a best of 3 now :)

You Americans are so funny. YOu can say "good game" or "we won gold in this" but very few of you can say "congratulations".

Doesn't matter though. Canada is GOLDEN!!!

You haven't said congrats on "owning the podium." It's called being human, not being American.

It was best of 3. First game, we took the medal from you in our own country... (salt lake gold!)

I agree, i wouldnt be saying congrats either, hahahaha.

LOL, well she is a woman and this is sports, so we have to let it slide.

Get out!. If I had said congrats you would've said something along the lines of losing the gold not winning the silver. You'd twist anything I said. :idk:

I'd say congrats if you won the gold (only one that counts buddy!).

Ya, women seem to think its ok to congratulate the winners, when the winners arent you....

I'm confident that this woman knows more about sports than Trip ever will. :lmao:

Well if you actually played in the game, shaking hands would be in order. But no one on this forum had any part in the game, so trash talking is in order.

Sure you do, keep telling yourself that.

:)

Great game with a shitty result. The only good thing about it is I would have heard the crying over the noncalled offsides from our first goal from here if we had won.:cry::lol:

Just remember guys, you didnt win silver, YOU LOST GOLD!

You know what? It doesn't matter. The Olympics are supposed to be the best of amateur sport, and yet the top two hockey teams were made up of pros. In my mind, the medals are worthless.

We both did a lot.

This is another bad thing about the olympics. All the work that people do for basketball/hockey/soccer/baseball golds and there is only one of them.

Those fuckers in skiing do about a minute of work (other sports too) and can get multiple of them.

My man!

Shut up, traitor! GOLD!

It not like every team doesnt send their NHL players.

What about all those years the europeans/russians were sending pros to the olympics. All the other sports send the "best athletes" so hockey should be the same IMHO

I agree. That's why the miracle on ice thing was awesome even to a Hockey Hater like me. It was amateurs against communist pros, probably cause it's USA too, but that doesn't count. :lol:

I think basketball is definitely a prime example of the suck of pros in the olympics.

However, the olympics were headed into the toilet without pros and they do get more ratings now that they have them there. I guess we won't get the amateurs ever again, which sucks.

Yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

That wasn't right either. I don't give a good goddamn about the Olympics, summer or winter, because it's about money instead of sport. The committee is corrupt, the athletes cheat, and many of them are professionals. It's a sham.

What do you expect, it's run by Europeans.

Theres nothing stating olympic athletes have to amateur. Its just something 'purists' push as fact, but theres no truth to it.

Oh, we also now hold the records for both most golds, and most golds on home soil in a single games!