The Official Olympics Hockey Thread

Post by **McQwak** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:13 am

The Hutch wrote:Ryan Miller was the goalie of the tournament, maybe the MVP

Actually, he was really named MVP

Post by **Jypfan92** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:15 pm

First time ever, when medals went to same countries in mens and womens hockey.

Gold: Canada

Silver: USA

Bronze: Finland

4th: Sweden, Slovakia

Post by **McQwak** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:30 pm

Nice Finnish flag there

DJP19 · Post by **DJP19** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:33 pm

AND CANADA WINS THE GAME!!!!

Post by **Jypfan92** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:33 pm

McQwak wrote:Nice Finnish flag there

Yes it is, i didn't found better emoticon

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:27 pm

The US did a lot better than I expected them to going into the Olympics. I've got to give them credit for doing as well as they did.

Post by **Jypfan92** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:50 pm

Lubomir Visnovsky get caught by doping at Olympics

. He was first athlete to get caught. He didn't get ban, only note and it willn't affect to Slovakia's 4th place.

Was it Turin or Salt Lake City, when Bryan Berard and Jose Theodore (or was it Jocelyn Thibault?) got caught by doping and they couldn't play in Olympics. But they didn't get NHL-ban.

What do you think: if skier uses doping and gets caught, he gets 2 year ban. If hockeyplayer uses doping and gets caught, he gets just note.

I think it's unfair.

Post by **batdad** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:01 pm

Depends on what he got busted for Jyp. Probably nothing major.

Anyway....I have one thing to say: Yesterday was the MOST AWESOME TIME OF MY LIFE!! (The surprise was tickets to hockey house not the actual game, but the players were all there afterwards.) It was the most fun party I have ever been to.

Ryan Kesler is a god.

Post by **archibalduk** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:11 pm

batdad wrote:Anyway....I have one thing to say: Yesterday was the MOST AWESOME TIME OF MY LIFE!! (The surprise was tickets to hockey house not the actual game, but the players were all there afterwards.) It was the most fun party I have ever been to.

Ryan Kesler is a god.

Wow, how cool! We mingled with the Marlies and Bulldogs in a freezing cold marquee after the AHL vs UK games but I don't think it was quite on the awesome scale as your experience!

Did you get autographs, photos, etc?

It was a fairly good game yesterday. It was great the US scored so late - it made things very interesting. Canada did well and deserved it I felt.

The BBC broadcast it on their HD channel which was great. It's the first time I've seen a televised game where you can see the puck almost as well as in real life. It seems like HD was made for hockey. It certainly beat watching a pixellated feed from ESPN360 online

Post by **McQwak** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:15 pm

Do you mean you met the whole team? Cool!

So you could say hello to Getzlaf face to face, not only on this forum

Post by **batdad** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:16 pm

No autographs or anything. They were not out with the public a ton. Just came out briefly and then kind of partied on their own for a bit. At least the ones I saw. The place was completely packed. Plus I do not do the autograph thing. They are just normal guys to me.

It was a GREAT game yesterday (watched it this morning again on my PVR). Both teams gave everything they had, and the kitchen sink. HD and hockey are awesome together.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:30 pm

archibalduk wrote: The BBC broadcast it on their HD channel which was great. It's the first time I've seen a televised game where you can see the puck almost as well as in real life. It seems like HD was made for hockey. It certainly beat watching a pixellated feed from ESPN360 online

Honestly, once you've seen hockey in HD, it's hard to go back to seeing it on regular television.

Post by **A9L3E** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:12 pm

philou21 wrote:
A9L3E wrote:
philou21 wrote:I know it would be different, but i'm not interest. I don't like team Canada this year.
Gloryhunter!
Absolutely not, back in 2006 i was already showing my color for Sweden to win the gold and they just win it.

Yeah right. "GO CANADA"...

DJP19 · Post by **DJP19** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:17 pm

Jypfan92 wrote:Lubomir Visnovsky get caught by doping at Olympics . He was first athlete to get caught. He didn't get ban, only note and it willn't affect to Slovakia's 4th place.

Was it Turin or Salt Lake City, when Bryan Berard and Jose Theodore (or was it Jocelyn Thibault?) got caught by doping and they couldn't play in Olympics. But they didn't get NHL-ban.

What do you think: if skier uses doping and gets caught, he gets 2 year ban. If hockeyplayer uses doping and gets caught, he gets just note.

I think it's unfair.

It was just stuuf found in cold medicine nothing to major.

Post by **philou21** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:34 pm

batdad wrote:Plus I do not do the autograph thing. They are just normal guys to me.

but you just said Kesler was a god! That doesn't sound ''normal'' to me.

[quote=''A9L3E'']

Yeah right. "GO CANADA"... [/quote]

darn leave me alone with that!!

I have the right to like whoever i want! Even my avatar proves it, I've always follow where Peter is, too bad it finish so earlier for him.

Post by **batdad** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:38 pm

Kesler is a Yankee. And I suppose I should have said he played like a god. Sorry, I just do not worship the players. I will have a conversation with them, but that is it. No "OMG YOUR RYAN KESLER CAN I HAVE YER AUTOGRAPH?" from me...I am not that in awe of them.

Post by **philou21** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:45 pm

I wouldn't act like this too, i think you look more like a crazy person.

I'm a shy person so I will be very impressed, but it doesn't show that much, I will ask nicely an autograph and if I'm not too stress out I will try to speak english a little with him.

If I met Forsberg though, I don't know how I will react.

Post by **Jypfan92** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:26 am

DJP19 wrote:
Jypfan92 wrote:Lubomir Visnovsky get caught by doping at Olympics . He was first athlete to get caught. He didn't get ban, only note and it willn't affect to Slovakia's 4th place.

Was it Turin or Salt Lake City, when Bryan Berard and Jose Theodore (or was it Jocelyn Thibault?) got caught by doping and they couldn't play in Olympics. But they didn't get NHL-ban.

What do you think: if skier uses doping and gets caught, he gets 2 year ban. If hockeyplayer uses doping and gets caught, he gets just note.

I think it's unfair.
It was just stuuf found in cold medicine nothing to major.

Yes, I heard that on news. It wasn't Lubomir's fault.

Círyatan · Post by **Círyatan** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 11:39 pm

It's slowly time to dig up this thread, methinks.

Link

Nice story, that one.

Post by **Peter_Doherty** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:35 am

US left Yandle, Erik and Jack Johnson, Ryan, Okposo and Bishop at home. How they pick Orpik and Martin over Yandle and one of the Johnsons when the olympics is on big ice is beyond me. Atleast one of Ryan and Okposo should be on the team over Brown also tbh. Guess i should send a thank you note to Bylsma and Shero for making it easier to beat the US

Post by **philou21** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:44 am

The US have alot of good goalies though but not giving a spot to Yandle is weird IMO.

Post by **Peter_Doherty** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:50 am

philou21 wrote:The US have alot of good goalies though but not giving a spot to Yandle is weird IMO.

The goalie-thing is the least weird one, having Martin and Orpik over Yandle and X.Johnson is weirder. And not having Ryan/Okposo over Brown.

Post by **philou21** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 1:47 am

Brown is a good two way foward. Ryan not. At some point the hockey team needs to be complete at every positions. That's my only guess why they would pick him over Ryan and Okposo even if they're better offensively than him.

Post by **jesterx7769** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:43 am

Good behind the scenes look. http://espn.go.com/olympics/hockey/stor ... -was-named

Post by CJ » Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:12 am

Nobody mentioned Pominville?!

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