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Women's hockey GDT: USA vs. Sweden

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yarre said:
I have never been this excited about women's hockey, great game girls! I never thought they would tie the game when the US had a 2-0 lead. Amazing! Too bad about the final though, will probably be another landslide-win.

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+1

Neither have i. This was awesome, i had goosebumps at the end!

Congrats to the gold Canada, but a bigger congrats to our Swedish girls getting a Silver medal!

(jinx :sarcasm: )
 
gozar said:
I would expect a closer game this time. The swedish ladies admitted that they didn't really fought as they should have in the first game.
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I'm pretty sure Kim didn't play in net against the Canadians in the last game.
And I think Canada only beat them 4-0 in warm up to the Olympics in Calgary.
 
good job sweden. Always like upsets. NO way in the world I bet Sweden to beat USA. It was joyful to see those Swedish women celebrate.
 
Jarko2004 said:
Sorry, but these two teams are on a completely different level from Canada. Much as it would be good for the sport, Canada won't be in any close games this week.
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I don't really follow women's hockey. But if team canada is so good, how come the USA won 2005 world championships? Or is team canada really not that good and the posters on these boards are jsut too nationalistic :dunno:

Doesnt really make sense to me
 
Chimp said:
Sweden has around 450 licensed female hockey players, Canada has about 225.000 - if my numbers are right. That's 500 Canadian players for every Swedish one. Heh.
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I heard about 65,000 for Canada, 50,000 for the US and 125,000 total worldwide including those numbers.
 
NYR35 said:
Why is every non-American going for Sweden?
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Nothing personal. Everybody loves an underdog, especially a huge underdog. It was a heck of a game. The Americans just couldn't beat a smokin' hot goaltender, and they seemed to wear down a bit at the end.
 
jaydub said:
how come the USA won 2005 world championships?
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A shootout.

It's pretty funny. The very people who call today's win a fluke because it was in a shootout, are the same ones who wet themselves about the 05 win and couldn't possibly admit it was a fluke as well.
 
jaydub said:
I don't really follow women's hockey. But if team canada is so good, how come the USA won 2005 world championships? Or is team canada really not that good and the posters on these boards are jsut too nationalistic :dunno:

Doesnt really make sense to me
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Cause team Canada and USA are equal in power for womens. So its usually Team Canada or USA getting number 1 in competition.
 
jaydub said:
I don't really follow women's hockey. But if team canada is so good, how come the USA won 2005 world championships? Or is team canada really not that good and the posters on these boards are jsut too nationalistic :dunno:

Doesnt really make sense to me
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never heard of upsets? Canada has won gold in all but 1 world championship (7 golds i think) and that was the 2005 championship where they won silver... and has a gold and a silver in the 2 olympics... so that leaves the US with about 7 silvers in world championships and 1 gold... as well as 1 of each in the olympics... so yeah i think it's pretty safe to say Canada is the best women's hockey nation
 
oil slick said:
You must admit that our chances just improved a great deal.
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Of course the chances are even better now. But that attitude of the previous poster who said it is now a guarantee is what gets you in trouble in the medal round.
"Fear no one but respect everyone one"-no matter how good you are.
 
theres nothing flukey about losing in a shootout - im watchin tv right now theyre talking about how the americans have been doing photo shoots and maybe not taking these teams seriously as the canadians have - the usa had ample opportuniy to bury the swedes during the whole 60 minutes and had ample opportunity to outshine them in the shootout and lost ....

i bet they wish theyd practiced instead of done *photoshoots*
 
Angela Ruggiero's statement a few days ago has come back to haunt her:

"I would love to see Finland or Sweden make a final," Ruggiero said. "Not when I'm playing, but eventually. We need that."
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mymkovski said:
Yea its 60,000 for Canada and 55,000 for USA
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Thanks, that's alot less than the numbers I got from who knows where. Still 450 vs 60.000 is quite a big difference, the same for 450 vs. 55.000.

Quality in front of quantity. We only needed a goalie.
 
Nihilism said:
A shootout.

It's pretty funny. The very people who call today's win a fluke because it was in a shootout, are the same ones who wet themselves about the 05 win and couldn't possibly admit it was a fluke as well.
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U.S. outplayed Canada in last year's World Championship final. Best thing that has happened to Canada since the 2002 Olympics was losing the gold medal game to the U.S. last year, and being outplayed in the process. They've come back with renewed vigour and hunger this year.

U.S. could have easily beaten Canada several times at the Worlds. Canada had big comebacks in a couple gold medal games, and got better goaltending in a couple others. Even though the U.S. had years where they were the better team, and would beat Canada in the round-robin/pre-tournament games, Canada was generally best when it counted: the gold medal game. (Exception being the 1998 Olympics).

For whatever reason, Canada has looked stronger throughout this year's Olympics. Maybe the U.S. took the foot off the throttle in their first two games, but they were down 3-2 to Finland a couple days ago. They just haven't looked as sharp this week.
 
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