That was amazing and much more dramatic than my single fist pump from laying on my couch. I'm a little ashamed now
GDT: Feb. 20 • Women's Gold Medal Game • Canada vs. United States • Pt IV
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That was amazing and much more dramatic than my single fist pump from laying on my couch. I'm a little ashamed now
Lebanese Leaf
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It depends in the state. I'm very familiar with Detroit and Michigan in general. Over there, you have your die hard Wings/Tigers/Pistons fans, but people generally will watch and talk about the Lions no matter what.
When it comes to the Wings/Tigers/Pistons, the most popular is simply who is most successful. The Pistons were HUGE from 2003-2006, but now very few people seem to care. The Wings are HUGE when its playoff time, but little attention is given when they're not on a crazy winning streak during the regular season. And everyone loves the Tigers in October, but little attention is given from April-September.
And that mentality very much applies to international hockey and soccer and other major olympic sports like track/swimming/speed skating. When they don't win, it's "who cares, we don't care about that anyways." When they do win, it's "OMG we're the best, look at us!"
Is "accidental" skate on skate contact really a penalty in internation rules? Serious question, someone on twitter said it isn't and i can't prove it either way.
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Lady Scarlet
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There's a pretty good chance nobody is complaining about the penalties in overtime if the American goalie doesn't pass it to Team Canada player........just cover the puck, wow.
LeetchisGod
This is a bad hockey team.
I don't know why so many people are saying the U.S. men should beat Canada. I have zero confidence in any meaningful game against Canada no matter how much better the American team looks. It's obvious God does not want the U.S. beating Canada in hockey.
I think most people would agree that the U.S. has caught up to Canada to the point that it's basically a toss up every time the teams meet now. But no matter how many times we flip the coin, it keeps landing on the Canadian side.
This x 1000. 1996 was the last time we beat Canada in a meaningful game.
That's the story and you're sticking to it despite the facts that point elsewhere? Okaaaaay.....
Robbed, OMG, the US team was robbed (robbed, I tell you) of the gold medal........
Can't be robbed when you choke first.
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I don't know why so many people are saying the U.S. men should beat Canada. I have zero confidence in any meaningful game against Canada no matter how much better the American team looks. It's obvious God does not want the U.S. beating Canada in hockey.
I think most people would agree that the U.S. has caught up to Canada to the point that it's basically a toss up every time the teams meet now. But no matter how many times we flip the coin, it keeps landing on the Canadian side.
Well...when God flips the coin for hockey He does use a Lucky Loonie...
17Kurri
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The hilarity is when they pretend to be underdogs.
The USA men has dominated this hockey tourney, while Canada has struggled pretty much across the board. You guys are the well deserving favourites.
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That's the story and you're sticking to it despite the facts that point elsewhere? Okaaaaay.....
Robbed, OMG, the US team was robbed (robbed, I tell you) of the gold medal........
Sorry that it cheapens the win for you, but I know you saw it as clearly as everyone else in the world did. You saw the US dominating Canada in the zone. You weren't surprised Canada took a penalty there.
And then you saw the ref make a completely ridiculous, completely phantom even-up call.
I know it sucks to admit that that is what turned the game in your favor, but that doesn't mean it didn't.
People try to say the US choked in the 3rd, but no. Canada just came on strong and, like nearly every hockey game ever between two teams fairly close in talent, Canada got the better of the play being down 2 goals. The fact is, the US had broken that momentum in OT and was dominating when the awful call was made that turned the game for the last time.
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Lebanese Leaf
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I admit I'm generalizing, but the American attitude towards sports (especially international sports) is to give them major media and public attention only when the USA is winning. You see it especially with hockey and soccer. Or look at baseball... the only major international tournament is the World Baseball Classic and all the American media does is bad mouth it. If they were to win one, suddenly they would celebrate how great America is at baseball. Or even basketball... sure they care about the olympics, but where's the passion when it comes to FIBA world championships? I don't hear a peep from major American sports media outlets like SI or ESPN. Where is the passion for the game?
haha
I was watching it at work with a girl in her mid-twenties, and two older ladies. When Canada scored, me and the younger girl were the only ones that jumped up and screamed "YEAH!!!" while fist pumping. We scared the **** out of the older ladies
Yet it happens. In every league. All the time. The way you guard against it is by putting yourself in the position to not be victimized by a bad bounce or bad call or all world performance from one player. Elements that are out of your control. The US didn't do that and while they maybe got the short end of the stick they put themselves in the position to get that short end. It's also worht pointing out that a bad call at the end of a game is really no different than one at the start of the game. Teams have to rise above these things to win and especially in these types of tourneys. It is 100% part of the sport.
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Canada has played fine. It's funny seeing people fight over who can play the underdog card.
It's so close between the U.S./Canada it's literally impossible to predict.
I'm pretty sure that if you are behind a player and you clip their skate so they fall it's a penalty. It's the same in soccer. Intention has really nothing to do with it just like if you accidentally high stick someone.
The one exception I've seen is if you dive and touch the puck first and then make contact.
The job of a media outlet is to report on what their viewers care about. Americans will obviously have more interest in something if their team is winning. It's about ratings, not being sore losers.
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Yes, much better than most would've expected, I suspect. It could've gone another way.
Tomorrow's a new day and another game. Hopefully, it's the same end result. If not, I fully expect American fans to show up here in droves and rub it in!
The Expert
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Seeing all of the comments on here, I really wish I could get as excited as you guys for this gold medal. I really do wish I could get into women's hockey, but every year I just cant get into it. Yeah, i'm really happy Canada won another gold medal, but during the comeback, overtime, and the GWG, I just wasn't as excited as I wanted to be.
Really glad we won (), but man, I wish I would have been more excited
Are you sure you watched the game? I honestly couldn't agree more with you... until today, this was the best hockey game at these Olympics so far, with Russia-USA the only one even close to it.
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we are just lucky that this was the ending to the women's game; if it were the mens, HF would have a legit 40/40 forum war right now, with the 20% europeans laughing their ass off
we are just lucky that this was the ending to the women's game; if it were the mens, HF would have a legit 40/40 forum war right now, with the 20% europeans laughing their ass off
LOL! You are bang on with that one!
The site would have crashed for sure!
