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The most painful Olympic hockey moments of your country?

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!) losing in 1998 in nagano easily number 1 as we lost in a skill competition where their shot hit the post and went in, and ours hit the post and stayed out. Even then we were missing our best 3 scorers going in, in Lemieux, kariya and sakic who got injured in qf's. if we had them, it would have been 3 out of 4 best on best gold medals.

2) world cup in 96. losing to the upstart americans was really painful in the best of 3. If felt like at the time they might really rival Canada for hockey supremacy.

3) world juniors, when we were down like 5 goals to the Russians in the semi's and we came back to make it a 1 goal game and had the tying shot on our stick and couldn't tie it up

4) world juniors. tie between losing to Carlson's ot goal in buffalo and Fleury's up the gut pass to Sullivan I think?

Turin didn't hurt as much as it was evident we sucked. How do we leave Crosby and staal at home and take bertuzzi, redden, foote, McCabe, on the big ice?

And that's it folks, Canada has won everything else of importance since 1972 basically
 
None. The last time we I think qualified for the hockey was in 1948. That is 44 years before I was born.
 
HabFanInLeafLand said:
When Steve Yzerman announced Chris Kunitz made our team.
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You think that's the worse? In 2006, my gut fell to the ground when Todd Bertuzzi was named. And that was on top of Ryan Smyth, Kris Draper and Shane Doan. Since I already hated the team, when they totally failed at the Olympics, I wasn't that sad anymore.

No, the absolute worse memory for me was in 1994 in Lillehammer. We were so close...

 
Bures Elbow said:
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This
 
For Russia a new low has been set.

Such a pathetic failure in Sochi will not be forgotten or digested for a long, long time.

The coach has failed, the team has failed, the system has failed and the country has failed.

There are no words for the way the Russian team has played during the games.

I was really sad yesterday.
 
Canuck21t said:
You think that's the worse? In 2006, my gut fell to the ground when Todd Bertuzzi was named. And that was on top of Ryan Smyth, Kris Draper and Shane Doan. Since I already hated the team, when they totally failed at the Olympics, I wasn't that sad anymore.

No, the absolute worse memory for me was in 1994 in Lillehammer. We were so close...

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It was a hell of a game! What a ride but since im Swedish i remember it a tad different than you! :yo:
 
I was born in 95' so My memories of the Olympics have been '02+.

I remember in 2006 not wanting to watch the Canada-Russia game because it was inevitable what the outcome would be. We had such a bad team, Seeing Ovechkin score and celebrate was still heart-wrenching though. It was just the cherry on top to an awful tournament, including getting stunned by Switzerland. I remember then watching Sweden-Finland alone, thinking "4 more years, 4 more years". That was tough.
Obviously 2010 was amazing, I cried when Crosby scored, it couldn't have been scripted better. On home ice, in OT, best player in the world ends it, against our biggest (or 2nd biggest) rival, having to demolish the Russians on the way there, perfect.

Other than the olympics, 2008 WC was pretty tough, watching the Russians win on our home soil, Semin scoring in overtime, when we had a chance for back to back Gold for the second time in the decade.
 
There is only one painful memory, and that was losing in the shootout vs. the Czechs in 1998. I barely remember 2006 for some reason.
 
1992 and 1994 were not easy either, because the sliver is never easy. Plus I thought Lindros in 92 and Kariya in 94 gave us a shot, which they did. But it wasn't enough obviously. Oddly, I think those teams played as hard or harder than any NHL team since 1998,
 
Easily 2010. After the Americans tied it, I thought they would have the momentum in overtime. That goal Crosby scored was heartbreaking, I haven't felt that disappointed at the end of a game ever.
 
"Sidney Crosby! The golden goal!"

I have some awful flashbacks every time I see the play/hear the call.

My heart sank like a stone.
 
As a Canadian citizen: Gretzky snub
As a Latvian citizen: Weber's pp tally yesterday (a close second is a disallowed goal against the States in Salt Lake that would have put Latvia into the quarters. It always hurts more when even the IIHF releases an apology after the game saying the wrong call was made, one which directly influenced not only the game, but the tournament rankings in general).
 
1) 1998 Semis- Really should have used Gretzky in the shootout
2) 1994 Gold Medal Game- Wish we had beaten Sweden, instead we lost in shootout
3) 2006- Really should have performed better
 
I was realty bitter at the time when Canada lost to The Czech Republic in 98. I remember thinking to myself as a young kid, Czechs have Jagr and Hasek but Canada has Pronger, Sakic, Yzerman, Gretzky, Roy, Brodeur, Blake, ect ect......My 12 year old brain couldn't comprehend how they could compete......I remember hating Hasek and Jagr and I gave them no credit and was a very sore loser in hindsight....Looking back I realize that they outplayed Canada and absolutely deserved to win....Jagr was probably the best forward at the time, and Hasek was the best goalie. I was pissed off about that until Canada won gold at the 2002 Olympics and now I don't really care too much which group of rich atheletes win.....I am still hoping for Canada though.
 
Nagano, when some members of the US Team partied for two weeks, stunk up the ice, and trashed their hotel room.

So embarrassing.
 
1994

Losing a gold medal in a shootout. I HATE THE SHOOTOUT :rant:

I don't care what countries are in it, deciding a gold medal on a shootout is insane. Play until someone scores. My Olympic dream... having the gold medal game go to a shootout and having both teams walk off the ice. I know it's a gold medal and all, but if you win in a shootout, how can you really feel proud of that?
 
MayDay said:
2010 easily.

To lose a heartbreaker like that in overtime, coming so soon after Parise's thrilling GTG right at the end of regulation.

And I already hated Crosby. As if I needed any reason to hate him more. He already put a damper on Buffalo's Winter Classic by scoring on Ryan Miller in overtime, and here he comes in Olympic gold medal game to score on Ryan Miller in overtime. Almost the exact same play too.

The fact that it was Crosby scoring on Miller just made the whole thing about 10X more obnoxious and unbearable, and it was already pretty bad.
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This, this so much.

I probably would have been more okay with it if it wasn't Crosby who scored it. Because as soon as it went in the camera's were glued to him, it was the ultimate "rubbing salt in the wound" moment for me. I treat that 2010 game like I do Game 7 (from 2009) I will never watch it again and anything related to it unless they show flashbacks during the current broadcasts.

Hopefully Team USA can finally return the favor tomorrow afternoon.
 
The 2011 World Juniors still smarts whenever I think about it.

And I think it took me about a decade to get over Nagano. Doesn't help that the Czechs went on to capture world junior and world championship gold shortly after those Olympics.
 
From a Canadian perspective, if we do not win gold, that itself is a disappointment. High standards in Canada.

Would have to go with Nagano, losing in a shootout. Didn't think we played that badly but Hasek was Hasek.

Turin was a colossal failure, didn't hurt as much.
 
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