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What country fears losing the most?

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Canada. The players will have their citizenship revoked if they lose. :biglaugh:
 
ferns8916 said:
What country fears losing the most?

What country is most afraid and scared to lose?
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Good question. Probably Canada and Sweden. Everything but gold is a failure in Canada. And as for Sweden, it is the golden generations last chance at the ultimate prize.
 
ferns8916 said:
What country fears losing the most?

What country is most afraid and scared to lose?
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Definately Canada. Every team of course hates to lose but Canada puts a lot of stuff on their shoulders with the "It's our game" thing. And the media scorching of a failure is bigger in Canada.
 
I'd say Canada or Sweden.

Canada is having the biggest pressure from back home, so of course it would be damn hard for them to lose.

"Three Crowns" must at least reach the semifinals and win a bronze to be accepted again, 1998 & 2002 was so painful. This is btw the last time you'll see the "Golden-Generation" play in the Olympics..feels kinda wierd :(
 
Iraq. It's a little know fact Iraq dominated hockey before 1960, but after a loss to Finland their national team mysteriously went missing and all records of them were destroyed.
 
Russia, because without a gold medal, the Olympics are considered a failure.
 
sorry as canadians were expected to win but we neither fear or are afraid to lose.
 
I do not think any country fears losing because all of them do eventually lose and this is a part of it, especially today when the majority of the players on all counties are NHL millionaires and it will not define their lives one way or another.

Of course the media pressure is mostly on Canada but it's kind of an unfair pressure because any one of six-seven NHL player dominated teams could win and it would hardly be considered a huge upset or a failing by any one country.

In the old days when amateur play dominated the teams the pressure of not losing clearly fell on Russia or teams with veterans players because even today it's something they are remembered for. No conversation of the dominating Russian teams or their individual players does not include the 1980 upset by team USA.
 
ferns8916 said:
What country fears losing the most?

What country is most afraid and scared to lose?
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Well, first off, your second question is repetitive and redundant.

That said, Canada or the Czechs. They face off tomorrow, so whichever loses wakes up the other--the sleeping giant.
 
Probably the canadians. Nobody here in america cares unless we win the gold medal but that is only after it happens.
 
Canada for obvious reasons and Russia. Russia because they haven't won anything of substance for more than 10 years and people are fud up. :madfire:
 
NJ_Devil_Boy said:
Canada because anything but gold is unacceptable.
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Precisely, except, I don't think the word to use for us is "fear" of losing, it's not willing to lose.
 
Canada for obvious reasons. Then I'd say Sweden and Russia because of big expectations and not winning in a while. The Czechs won more recently and I don't think many Slovaks, Finns, or Americans thought their teams were good enough to win at the beginning.
 
The media is so darn stuipid in Sweden. The coach, BÃ… Gustavsson, was critizised when he went out and said that it wouldn't be a fiasco if we lost to the Canadians.
 
Sweden, because the window of opportunity has all but closed on them.
 
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