Wow, we did it! Not sure what to say! Great game from Team Canada, even though they decided to make things interesting by giving up the tying goal with only 24.4 seconds left in the third period, sending it to overtime. they played a beautiful defensive game, and full credit to the Americans as well, …
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The Time Has Come
Today’s the day! Today it’s Team Canada vs. Team USA one more time, everything on the line! I wish I could say that this one would be a cakewalk for the Canadians, but Team USA is better than I thought and after the way that Canada had to hang on for dear life to pull …
This Is Good, Now Let’s Talk About Those Ski Jumpers
Wonders never cease, I agree with Dick Pound on something. That something happens to be the ridiculous non-issue that isour women’s hockey team celebrating their gold medal win by cracking a few beers on the ice after the fans had left. IOC member Dick Pound of Montreal handed out the medals to Team Canada, and …
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False Starts And Wrong Turns
Here’s a fun article about some of the bad luck a few of the athletes have had during the Olympics. I should say fun for you and I, because none of these things happened to us. If I were Sven Kramer I’d likely be shoving volunteers too, not to mention beating coaches half to death.False …
More Olympics Stuff
Yesterday was quite the Olympic day for Canada. Wetook gold and silver in the women’s 2-man bobsleigh or is it bobsled,our women’s short track speedskatersgrabbed silver in the 3000m relay,Clara Hughes smoked the Richmond Oval record in the Women’s 5000M but ended up withthe bronzeafter that record was crushed twice more, and Team Canadaput a …
Quiet Down, We’re Trying To Win Over Here!
Jesus doesthisever make us look amazingly pathetic as a country. The game is on and we’re all trying to watch it, so here’s the short version: Canada isn’t leading the medal standings and won’t be owning the podium because of all the fans and their damn cheering distracting the athletes. Of course I’m serious, who …
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Some Good Picks, Some Bad Picks
So . . . yeah . . . um . . . ThatpredictionI madedidn’t quite pan out like I had hoped. Like I said in the comments, Canada didn’t play a bad game, the US just played a better one. there definitely were some penalties that Canada did not need to take and you could …
If There’s Such A Thing As A Factual Prediction, This Is It
Ok, time to throw down my prediction for tonight’s big Canada vs. USA hockey game. I’m not going to spend a whole lot of time analyzing line combinations and statistics and all that stuff, it’s been done to death by folks much more qualified than I. I’m simply going to use a little deductive reasoning …
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Mmmmmmmmm…Silver Medal
I’m sure that Germans everywhere are very proud of the silver medal in men’s single’s luge, but proud of the guy who won it…might have to think for a second on that one. As the story goes, the second best luger in the world was asked by photographers if they could get a picture of …
Some Olympics Thoughts
I’ve meant to write more about the Olympics than I have, but obviously that hasn’t happened. Oh well, what are ya gonna do? Canada is doing pretty well after a week of competition. We’re currently tied for 4th place in the medal count with France, 7 each. the United States is currently whipping ass with …