Swoop, If you have Sirius, try channel 97 every day at 1600 EST for Hockey night in Canada radio. They will give you hockey talk from the CBC for 3 hours....you may not see the game but you will know what happened.Quote:
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Swoop, If you have Sirius, try channel 97 every day at 1600 EST for Hockey night in Canada radio. They will give you hockey talk from the CBC for 3 hours....you may not see the game but you will know what happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by swoop
I have XM its the same coverage but different channel. But you know not seeing it is like torture.Esspecially the hits and the defense. Theres just never enough coverage of the defense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
A man after my heart...and it is the reason I fear the US more than the Russians...you guys have pretty good defense, but the Russians are too much about the offense, which collapses when they cant get the puck out of their own end. Canada and the US play the tenacious and nasty forecheck that will probably help win medals for them. The Russians may deal with it and end up in the gold medal game, but they don't value it the way we do.Quote:
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Still the finns are a threat to capitalize on mistakes and those darn swedes they just don't go away.
Very true, the Finn's have the goaltending tradtionally and medal every Olympics it seems. The Swedes if they get the goaltending from Lundquisvt will do well because they can score too. I said I didn't want to predict an outcome but I am getting caught up in the hype of our team but it is going to be a very hard Olympic tournament to handicap. This format sucks too. Hockey is NOT meant to be winner take all one game sudden death for a week. You have 10 teams, and they will decide a gold in less than 2 weeks. Getting hot at the right time and having a few bounces will negate the true edge. It is the reason (besides making money) that the 7 game series is the more honest way of deciding the better of two hockey teams. Best of 3 would be good, but in a 2 week window, we get these hot house winner take all deals...Quote:
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Don't worry Swoop and Mark. Even if our team starts well the tournament, evetually we f**k up at some point. And the Swedes pick the cherry from the top :mark:
But all in all, I'm waiting a brilliant tournament and I wish all the teams good luck. I'm so going to watch US, Canada and Russia playing tonight :bounce: Oh yeah !!!!!
One day...Finland will win the World's or an Olympic medal. I will be happy for you guys when it does...the view of Finnish hockey by Canadians is that the Finn's rugged, tough and never give up. The Swedes can be mercurial, and the Russians can be indifferent or churlish, but the respect Canadians have for Finnish hockey is high. You are a small nation trying to beat the big hockey nations and you come close a LOT.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
That's how we roll :D
you bet...lolQuote:
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First game down, USA 3, Switzerland 1....
In my house, watching mens figure skating is banned. There is something about men skating around they way they do, dressed like they are and crying about it afterwards that is just not quite right. Quite disturbing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa