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The most painful Olympic hockey moments of your country?

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hitmen19 said:
!) 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
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Came here to post this exact same thing.

Well done good sir.
 
For Slovakia:

Olympics
2006 - losing to the Czechs in the QF after having a perfect record in the early stages of the tourney.

2010 - the way the team lost the bronze medal to Finland in the last period.

And the last two games at the 2004 IHWC, ugh.
 
Astoria said:
I can't speak for everyone, but for me, it's this...


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Without a doubt:nod:
 
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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I was about to look that one up...but you pulled the tragedy yourself.

So brutal.

I can't help it...whenever i think of Kariya, I always think of Lillehammer.
 
Only old enough to remember 2006. I was 8 during Nagano and I only remember my parents being livid about Gretzky on the bench.

2002 and 2010 were amazing.
 
I walked out of '10 very proud of Team USA. I'd say the same about '92 (scrappy college kids that came closest to replicating '80) and '02 (not a great GMG performance though).

Frankly- it's the years that Team USA didn't show-up that really bother me- like '94 (highly regarded amateur squad that woefully under-achieved), '98 (terrible on and off the ice) and '06 (mediocre team, VERY flat). The Olympics is such a special/rare opportunity- and it drives you nuts to see your country seemingly mail it in IMHO....
 
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2006 Turin final. Finland played perfect and beat everybody. Scored the most goals in the tournament and allowed the least. Selänne chosen as the best forward, Niittymäki as the best goaltender.

We face Sweden in the final and its a tie game going in to the 3rd. Koivu breaks his stick which opens up space for sweden to attack, Lidström rifles a perfect shot past Niittymäki for the winning goal.

Then in the dying seconds O.Jokinen has a gaping net in front of him to tie it, but the puck hits Lundqvist's pad. Sweden wins.

That was supposed to be our year, our roster has never been so good on paper. Several legitimate elite NHL players combined with Finnish hockey mentality made for an awesome hockey team.

Selänne,Koivu,Koivu,Lehtinen,Peltonen,Jokinen,Ruutu,Kapanen,Timonen,Numminen,Lydman,Nummelin,Salo all at the top of their games.
 
1. Turin Final
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2. Nagano Semifinal, Pavel Bure 3 breakaway goals + 1 emptynetter
3. Lillehammer Semifinal. Finland lost only one period in the whole tournament, that period against Canada was lethal.
 
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As a Swiss, this years olympics were very painful. Best squad we ever iced, losing against Latvia after beating them amd the Czechs before.
There were many painful moments in our history, but the expectation was pretty low too.
Losing against Germany in the Quarters some years ago was maybe #1 of pain for a Swiss Hockey Fan.
 
Although not Canadian, I felt disappointed when Canada missed the final in Nagano.

Gretzky was always a spokesperson for Olympics and their roster was like reading a HOF ballot.
 
Ummm all of them? Losing two finals where we were fractions away from winning and then just getting embarrassed in the other two.
 
#1 Olympic Games 2002 - You know all the reason..
#2 Vancouver 2010 - I really think Sweden had something going on.. last chance for our golden generation. Lost to a team that played well but was outplayed for most of the game.
#3 World Championships 2003 - Comeback of the century against Finland.. That was such a beautiful game.. then comes the final and the inconclusive goal against in OT. I have still no clue to this date how they could call it a goal when the call on the ice was no goal.
 
1948. We were the reigning champions from 1936 but came 5th and have never qualified since. Although we do have a medal rate of 50% and a gold medal rate of 25%.
 
Not many seem to feel sad about the loss of team Finland against USA in 2010. I remember it as being a case where Finland was so utterly destroyed that at about goal 4 it became funny to me. Maybe I am a masochist, but I still like listening to the finnish commentators reactions to the goals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sXzrkY_s0
 
1. Duh... 2002 obviously.
2. Nagano 98 - QF loss against Teemu Selänne
3. Vancouver 2010 - QF loss against Slovakia, Lundqvist shaky, and just a bad game all in all.

Vippe: Olympic ;)
 
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