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Post by echnaton on Feb 22, 2010 12:10:00 GMT -4
It looks pretty painful to scrape your helmet along a track at 90 miles per hour. Almost as painful as loosing a prelim hockey match to the U.S... Very clever tie in.
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Post by laurel on Feb 22, 2010 13:33:17 GMT -4
I'm trying to focus on the positive. Canada did win another medal yesterday. Speedskater Kristina Groves won silver in the 1500m. Can I say "it ain't over till it's over" about our hockey team or is it too much of a cliché?
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Post by Joe Durnavich on Feb 22, 2010 13:36:01 GMT -4
I didn't get to watch the hockey game. I don't have cable. I got to watch ice dancing instead.
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Post by echnaton on Feb 22, 2010 13:44:08 GMT -4
I didn't get to watch the hockey game. I don't have cable. I got to watch ice dancing instead. I do have cable so instead of ice dancing I watched curling. I'd rather watch paint dry than sit through ice dancing. I'm not even sure it is really a sport.
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Post by laurel on Feb 22, 2010 14:16:03 GMT -4
I'd rather watch ice dancing than curling. It's nice that different channels carry different events so viewers have options.
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Post by Jason on Feb 22, 2010 14:37:38 GMT -4
I don't understand curling, but I still prefer watching it to watching ice dancing.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Feb 22, 2010 20:36:54 GMT -4
Almost as painful as loosing a prelim hockey match to the U.S... A credit to your goalie. Canada had far more shots on goal than the US did, and if you had a lesser goalie I'm sure we would have beat you significantly. Anyway, if we had to lose a game I would rather we lose a preliminary game to a team like the US that is full of professional NHL players who play the game for 9 months out of the year.
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Post by laurel on Feb 22, 2010 23:06:26 GMT -4
The Canadian women's hockey team will be in the gold medal game.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Feb 22, 2010 23:28:04 GMT -4
Was there ever a doubt they would be?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 22, 2010 23:42:02 GMT -4
Was there ever a doubt they would be? Does anyone other than the US and Canada actually play Ice Hockey in any form of serious competition? ETA: Never mind, found the answer myself. Finland, Russia, The Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden all have over 60,000 players, which is nothing compared to the nearly 500,000 players the US and Canada both have, in fact if you add up all the players outside of the US and Canada, you still have less players than the Canada has (slightly more than the US though.)
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Post by BertL on Feb 23, 2010 3:19:02 GMT -4
ETA: Never mind, found the answer myself. Finland, Russia, The Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden all have over 60,000 players, which is nothing compared to the nearly 500,000 players the US and Canada both have, in fact if you add up all the players outside of the US and Canada, you still have less players than the Canada has (slightly more than the US though.) Wouldn't percentages be more applicable here?
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Post by Al Johnston on Feb 23, 2010 9:01:31 GMT -4
Was there ever a doubt they would be? Does anyone other than the US and Canada actually play Ice Hockey in any form of serious competition? ETA: Never mind, found the answer myself. Finland, Russia, The Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden all have over 60,000 players, which is nothing compared to the nearly 500,000 players the US and Canada both have, in fact if you add up all the players outside of the US and Canada, you still have less players than the Canada has (slightly more than the US though.) Before the collapse of communism, the Olympic Ice Hockey Gold Medal was almost by default a Soviet possession (the occasional "miracle" excepted)
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Post by echnaton on Feb 23, 2010 10:17:21 GMT -4
Almost as painful as loosing a prelim hockey match to the U.S... A credit to your goalie. Canada had far more shots on goal than the US did, and if you had a lesser goalie I'm sure we would have beat you significantly. Anyway, if we had to lose a game I would rather we lose a preliminary game to a team like the US that is full of professional NHL players who play the game for 9 months out of the year. This highlights a big beef with the Olympics, the use of professional players. I would like to see age restrictions on a number of sports, like hockey, where there is a significant professional presence. Even skiing where the Olympics is just an interruption in the professional circuit. Some age restrictions would make the Games would be more interesting, and true to the spirit of the founding goal as a venue for amateurs.
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Post by echnaton on Feb 23, 2010 12:47:40 GMT -4
I don't understand curling, but I still prefer watching it to watching ice dancing. It really quite fun. When my older daughter was around 3, she used to wake up around 6:30 AM and on Sundays and I would take her to the Houston Galleria shopping mall. The La Madeline restaurant is right on the ice rink and we would watch the curling and have breakfast. That is where I rekindled my love for coffee. Now that she is a teen, she frequently sleeps into the afternoon. Curling is like shuffleboard except you get the sweepers that can make the stones movement curl so you can place it behind other stones and make it harder to knock off.
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Post by Jason on Feb 23, 2010 12:52:17 GMT -4
Actually, since I wrote that yesterday I read through the wikipedia article on curling, and feel I understand it much better now. As I said on another thread - don't just question: educate yourself!
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