XXI Olympic Winter Games

[Cujo]

Why do I have a feeling Sid the Kid is going to eclipse Eric Staal's mark as youngest member of Triple Gold this year?

Triple gold?...

Stanley Cup

Olympic Gold

World Championship

Would Crosby play in a WC?

The Stanley Cup is gold?

[Lee.]

So uhm how does it feel to be dominated? Just so we're clear.

Where was the domination? It was a 3-2 game.

[TrueYankee26]

Canada just wrapped up the men's curling gold.

Watched the game for a week, still don't understand how it works. It's boring anyways.

[charger77]

So on Detroit TV here they are calling the Gold Medal Game the biggest hockey game ever.

I am guessing...

USA/USSR 1980

All are "bigger games" than today's game.

-Dan

For the 329347th time, that was a semifinal game.

I didn't say it was the Gold Medal game... Just a "bigger game"

[Cujo]

So on Detroit TV here they are calling the Gold Medal Game the biggest hockey game ever.

I am guessing...

USA/USSR 1980

All are "bigger games" than today's game.

-Dan

For the 329347th time, that was a semifinal game.

I didn't say it was the Gold Medal game... Just a "bigger game"

Oh. Right. I knew that.

[TrueYankee26]

So uhm how does it feel to be dominated? Just so we're clear.

Where was the domination? It was a 3-2 game.

In OVERTIME no less.

[Epiphanic]

So on Detroit TV here they are calling the Gold Medal Game the biggest hockey game ever.

I am guessing...

USA/USSR 1980

All are "bigger games" than today's game.

-Dan

For the 329347th time, that was a semifinal game.

Not in the truest sense though. Regardless of the result of that game, the United States was playing Finland in the second game. Besides, "biggest games" do not need to be for a championship.

[charger77]

So uhm how does it feel to be dominated? Just so we're clear.

Where was the domination? It was a 3-2 game.

In overtime too.

[Cujo]

So uhm how does it feel to be dominated? Just so we're clear.

Where was the domination? It was a 3-2 game.

In OVERTIME no less.

On home ice.

[charger77]

So on Detroit TV here they are calling the Gold Medal Game the biggest hockey game ever.

I am guessing...

USA/USSR 1980

All are "bigger games" than today's game.

-Dan

For the 329347th time, that was a semifinal game.

Not in the truest sense though. Regardless of the result of that game, the United States was playing Finland in the second game. Besides, "biggest games" do not need to be for a championship.

Thats why I included it on my list.

[Shane Does Art]

So uhm how does it feel to be dominated? Just so we're clear.

Where was the domination? It was a 3-2 game.

I know. I was responding to that sig that was made, when the States beat Canada. "The one that said how does it feel to be dominated."

In all seriousness though, the Americans played Great, and could have taken it easily. That Parise is something else.

[Lee.]

Then you should have made your own sig in kind. Then people would know whiskey tango foxtrot you're going on about.

Except me, because I turn sigs off.

[TrueYankee26]

Ohno got ROBBED last night. ROBBED!

Please learn something about Short Track and not just buy in the the hype NBC is feeding you. When you do then you can come back and realize that you had no clue what you were talking about when you made that statement.

Didn't look like a blatant push to me....

[Still MIGHTY]

Well at least we have a golden hat...

And of all the people to score that goal, why the hell did it have to be Sidney freaking Crosby?

That Canada's hero junk got real old early in the Olympics, and now that he actually is, it might just become insufferable. Crosby was advertised and hyped up enough. This is going to make it all the worse. Ugh

And just as a side note, the Anaheim Ducks lead the NHL medal count with 7 players taking home medals. Getzlaf, Perry, Niedermayer with Gold. Whitney, Bobby Ryan with Silver. Selanne, Koivu with Bronze. That's pretty cool, I guess. And then along with Hiller having a tremendous Olympics.

[Braden]

Fantastic game. The American fans have nothing to be ashamed from.

This is just the beginning of the US being a huuuuge threat in Hockey for years to come.

I can't believe that Canada's won a whopping 14 gold.

[raysox]

And of all the people to score that goal, why the hell did it have to be Sidney freaking Crosby?

Not 10 seconds before I said "I hope that Ryan Malone scores the game winner. Just aslong as Crosby doesn't."

Sorry guys, I jinxed us....

[Sodboy13]

Good for Canada. Those poor hayseeds really have no lives outside hockey anyway, so it meant more to them, lol.

rolleyes

Oh get over yourselves. Every year is a triumph for Canadian hockey because you're the only country on the face of the earth that genuinely gives a damn about the game. You don't need some corruption-drenched phony-baloney all-star game to validate Canada's hockey supremacy.

rolleyes

[Saintsfan]

I don't get to see too much top level Ice Hockey, but that gold medal game seemed like a really good match! Competitive, spirited, hard tough Ice Hockey, but with some great moments of skill. I thought that overall Canada deserved to win, not sure that 'dominated' seems quite right for it, mind.

And Crosby really seems to have a great players sense of the moment as well. Invisible for 60 minutes, then BANG, gets the game winner.

Today we are all Canadians!

[STL FANATIC]

So on Detroit TV here they are calling the Gold Medal Game the biggest hockey game ever.

I am guessing...

USA/USSR 1980

All are "bigger games" than today's game.

-Dan

For the 329347th time, that was a semifinal game.

So what?

Using just games that relate specifically to me, Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS was the best baseball game I ever witnessed and trumped any of the World Series games that year. But it was just for the pennant, not the World Championship.

The 2005 Elite 8 game of Arizona vs. Illinois with the huge late comeback by the Illini is consistently ranked one of the top 5 college basketball games ever. It was just to get to the Final Four.

It's unscientific, but it's always been my feeling that the best games always seem to be in the "game before the game". Doesn't make them any less big or awesome. (Okay, it kinda does as in they could have been even bigger, but it doesn't put a damper on what they were.)

Additionally, everybody knows that the Miracle On Ice game was not just big because of what it meant in the tournament. You can try to remove all the other aspects from that game, but I don't think it's fair to do so. That game meant a lot more.

[STL FANATIC]

So on Detroit TV here they are calling the Gold Medal Game the biggest hockey game ever.

I am guessing...

USA/USSR 1980

All are "bigger games" than today's game.

-Dan

For the 329347th time, that was a semifinal game.

I didn't say it was the Gold Medal game... Just a "bigger game"

Oh. Right. I knew that.

If you just interpreted what he was stating when you pointed that out, then please disregard any negative tones that might come toward you from my post above.