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It was a phenomenal game, both teams were excellent. There can only be one winner! Both teams should feel proud.
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It is a great day to be a Canadian ! WOOOT ! I am so proud to be a Canadian !
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I agree with you. When they tuned into the Americans after they just lost the game, I felt a twinge of sadness.
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Oddly I felt a big tug in my heart for all of Canada! No reason for sadness it's the reason I love the Olympic games it gives us all a chance to be of the world.
I watched as Sydney Crosby scored the golden goal.
I think we found our new Canadian hero!
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This is something that seems to be an Olympic Committee requirement. They did the same thing with the homeless and disenfranchised for the 1992 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Everyone is aware, of course, that the Winter and Summer Olympic Games are a private for-profit venture? Getting a job as a rep for the World Olympics is what one does if you own a 200 foot yacht and need a hobby.
NOTE: I'm behind the athletes 100%, but the World Olympic Committee has an iffy past.
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This Olympics definitely has taken patriotism to an all new level, especially for Canada.
congrats to Canada
It was certainly a great game...but for me, nothing will ever compare to the 1980 "Miracle on Ice"...i will never forget that...i was 8 years old and a bunch of college kids from the USA defeated the greatest professional hockey machine in the world. That Soviet team was scary...and in a little town in upstate New York, that one game changed the national psyche.
i remember watching it (on tape delay...they did not even show it live!) and i still remember almost every moment...it was the first time that the "U-S-A" chant began...
"Do you believe in Miracles? YES!"
everyone in the free world was rooting for a rag tag bunch of american college kids playing the Soviet hockey machine
the last minute and a half of the game below...
YouTube - 5 minutes of the miracle on ice
It was certainly a great game...but for me, nothing will ever compare to the 1980 "Miracle on Ice"...i will never forget that...i was 8 years old and a bunch of college kids from the USA defeated the greatest professional hockey machine in the world. That Soviet team was scary...and in a little town in upstate New York, that one game changed the national psyche.
i remember watching it (on tape delay...they did not even show it live!) and i still remember almost every moment...it was the first time that the "U-S-A" chant began...
"Do you believe in Miracles? YES!"
everyone in the free world was rooting for a rag tag bunch of american college kids playing the Soviet hockey machine
the last minute and a half of the game below...
YouTube - 5 minutes of the miracle on ice
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I was only 2 years old at that time. I think specific Olympics will be important to each person. For now, it will be this one for me.
I would have been 10 when Calgary had their Olympics, but I don't remember anything about that one at all.
I agree, great games both of them. 1980 had all the drama of the US being extreme underdogs and the backdrop of the cold war, at a time when the defeat in Vietnam was recent and the economy had tanked.
This hockey game was in part redemption for losing in Nagano and a win in Canada's eternal competition with the 'elephant' we share the continent with. That goal with 24 sec left in the third gave me that old sinking feeling of disappointment again. It has happened so often in international play in the past.
Well done on both sides. Hopefully there were 8 years olds watching last night that will be inspired as well.
I was only 2 years old at that time. I think specific Olympics will be important to each person. For now, it will be this one for me.
I would have been 10 when Calgary had their Olympics, but I don't remember anything about that one at all.
well, you were also probably to young to remember that Canada had some *MASSIVE* clashes between the Canadian NHL all stars and those same Soviet Teams...
these were titanic clashes as well, and naturally, all hockey fans here in the USA were rooting for the canadians as well.
from 1972 to 1987, the Canada vs Soviet matches were epic...i was a tad to young to see the two famed summit series in 1972 and 1974 (i was born in 71) but iwas old enough to see all the later "Canada Cup" games and the Challenge Cups as well.
the Soviets and Canada were matched pretty evenly in those games, with the Soviets winning 13 total games, Canada winning 12 and the two teams drew 5 times IIRC...but in all thed World Championships and exhibition games the Soviets dominated with 22 wins and 4 draws and Canada only won 4 times...
the Soviet pro teams that played NHL all star teams also when the majority of the time.
those Soviet teams from 70s and 80s were incredible...you could not help but be impressed by their passing, stickhandling and precision, especially on the larger european rinks...
I really loved hockey pre 1995...since then it has really lost importance to me as the NHL has become less interesting.
the rinks in northa america are still too small for my liking and i prefer the more open european style, but the smaller rink suits the more physical Canadian and American squads...
that being said, i do love to watch Ovechkin...Crosby is great, undeniably, and probably a better overall team guy in terms of passing, distribution and controlling the tempo as the center, wheras Ovechkin is a true dominating sniper.
I honestly wonder what Ovechkin could have done in the more free scoring 80s and 90s.
i loved those guys like Selanne, Bure, Mogilny, Hull, Bossy, Lemieux, Jagr, when all these guys were in their prime...and you had defensemen like Coffey, Leetch and Chelios...
it jsut seems like there is more emphasis on physicality and tangling on the boards in recent years...and as the players have gotten bigger and stronger and faster, my oopinion is that it is impeding offense.
i can understand not wanting to expand rinks to the european level, but north american rinks are just too small for my liking
our rinks are only 85 feet wide, while europes are 98.4 feet...
...not to mention the distance in the neutral zone between the blue lines is far shorter in North America, 50 feet vs 58 feet...and there is extra space, about 1.5 feet extra, from the boards to the goal line.
i really would like to see more open play, but doubt it will ever happen here.
even if we here in north america just opened it up a little bit, i think it would be great...say 91 feet in width....54 feet between the blue lines.
just enough to allow the really talented offensive players more room.
i always hated "grinder" dump and chase hockey...or don cherry hockey...i want to see flow, passing, skating, movement... not just grinders who tie up skill players on the boards all the time.
i used to love watching a guy like Bure flying up the ice...watching some knucklehead scrounging on the boards these days is just boring.
you're right vince...unfortunately, hockey's time has passed it by here in the States...it really squandered a ton of goodwill in the late 90s and then the strikes and everything.
i still love to go see my Rangers play, but i do not invest the time to watch them all the time the way i used to. I usually catch bits and pieces of every 3-4 games or so...wheras i used to watch at least 2 out of every 3 games at the least.
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