All Entries in the "Olympics" Category
Ryan Miller Did USA Proud!
First, I want to congratulate Sabres Head Coach Lindy Ruff and Team Canada for winning the gold medal in Vancouver. The two games between Canada and the United States were two of the best hockey games I have ever seen. Both teams did their country proud and I truly believe, opened the eyes of many [...]
Red, White and Blue
An underdog is a person or group in a competition, frequently in electoral politics, sports and creative works, who is popularly expected to lose. Do you believe in miracles? “Sometimes, the best team in a tournament does not take home the Gold medal”. That was Team USA head coach Ron Wilson’s quote after the United [...]
E pluribus, Crosby
Sidney Crosby was born and bred for this moment. In a country that elevates its sublimely talented hockey superstars to iconic status, it was only appropriate that out of the many star players populating Team Canada’s roster, the wunderkind from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia would emerge as the one who seized the moment that asked for a hero. Out [...]
Au Revoir Olympics, Back To Frustration In Islander Nation
by Brenna Solop The 2010 Winter Olympic competitions have come to an end, and the OT gold medal hockey game provided the perfect exclamation point for the final scene. As an American – the USA kind (you have to clarify since Canadians are, after all, North Americans), I was rooting for the home team. Am [...]
OVECHKIN: Channeling Sean Penn?
Let it be said rather plainly. I think Alexander Ovechkin is the best NHL player bar none right now. But, his behavior from dodging the sports press in Vancouver, to pushing a fan…has been poor sportsmanship no matter what pressure, excuse or Milbury-insult launched from a host’s seat. Well, sadly it has continued as [...]
Oh what a game!
Where were you when the USA and Canada played for the 2010 gold medal? Hopefully you were comfortable, because there was no way you were moving. Sunday’s gold medal game was the type of contest that can convert the most ardent hockey haters into beer league players. It was a game that was played with [...]
Hockey Independent’s Trade Deadline Show on March 3rd! Special Guests include . . .
On March 3rd starting at 9am Eastern, we of HockeyIndependent.com are doing a live chat show with your favorite bloggers, many special guests and YOU. We are doing this because, like you, we’ve watched live shows tank, and know it’s tough to keep abreast of big deals as all sorts of sites and tv channels [...]
Going for Gold
As authors with considerable audiences, we try to keep ourselves from showing our allegiances. Whatever teams we may cheer for, and whatever teams we may cheer against, we attempt to keep our biases to a bare minimum. Everyone who reads my articles knows that I’m a fan of the Montreal Canadiens. They know that, as [...]
USA v. Canada – The Rematch
USA and Canada are two heavyweight fighters. Sunday is a title-belt rematch.
The IOC’s Shattered Glass House
The press release read, “The International Olympic Committee will investigate the behavior of the Canadian women’s hockey players who celebrated their gold medal at the Vancouver Games by drinking alcohol on the ice.” The IOC director, Gilbert Felli stated, “”I don’t think it’s a good promotion of sport values. If they celebrate in the changing [...]
North America is The Winner
The Olympic hockey script has played out exactly as NBC and many fans in North America would have liked. The majority of US hockey enthusiasts would have wanted a Canada match for the gold. In many ways the young US team has already won their prize, few thought they could capture a medal. With another opportunistic [...]
Canada and U.S. to go for gold on Sunday afternoon
Canada and the United States have both booked their tickets, in very different ways, to the gold medal game on Sunday (3.15 pm EST / 12.15 pm PST) setting up an all North American Olympic men’s hockey final and a rematch of the 2002 Salt Lake City gold medal game won by Canada. The Americans advanced by [...]
Spotlight on Jaroslav Halak
As a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, I feel compelled to cheer for any Habs that were lucky enough to be selected by their countries of origin to compete at the Vancouver Games. Following this group of players, both for this website and as a mega-fan, you can’t help but feel a bond with each [...]
Mike Milbury’s Eurotrash Disco: Comments Override Canada’s Huge Win
“I was shocked that it was this one-sided. And I was really disappointed that these guys came with their euro-trash game. It was just. No heart, no guts, no nothing there to back it up. I mean Alex Ovechkin was an average player tonight. I know they’re going to bounce back, but to be that [...]
O Happy Day! Canada advances to semifinals, eliminates Russia
A flood of different emotions coursed through hockey fans coast to coast this morning, awaiting the Canada – Russia showdown in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Olympic men’s hockey tournament. Anticipation, hope, hatred and love, all mixing, simmering and percolating in all of us, anxious for the start of one of the most longed-for hockey games [...]
Wednesday Night Rant: What’s So ‘Miracle’ About Team USA?
The memories of a screaming Al Michaels asking if we believe in miracles is etched into every hockey fans memory, whether they lived through it or not. Immortalized through books, documentaries, and the 2004 film aptly named for what their accomplishment was, the 1980 U.S. team made up mostly of college kids from New England [...]
Qualifications in the Books; Great Day of Quarter-Finals Ahead
Going into yesterday’s set of games in Vancouver, not many people expected Norway, Belarus, Germany or Latvia to beat their opponents and advance to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are simply way too good for those other four growing hockey nations. Surely enough, we sit here on [...]
Pair Of Bruins Show Late Game Heroics For Homeland
Patrice Bergeron may be logging fourth line duty for Mike Babcock’s Team Canada and Tim Thomas is sure to be riding the pine for Team U.S.A’s contest tonight against Switzerland, but that doesn’t stop fellow Bruins David Krejci and Miroslav Satan from producing in their country’s quest for Gold. In two late-night affairs for Bruins [...]
Canada easily beats Germany to set up quarterfinal match with Russia
Team Canada did what it had to do to stay alive at the men’s Olympic hockey tournament, defeating Germany 8-2 in one of the four qualification playoff games. Canada will now face Russia in the quarterfinals tomorrow evening at 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST, a matchup that over 19,000 partisan fans at Canada [...]
Should Canada just start planning for Russia? Nein, mein herr!
Warm up the hype machine; post up yet another Crosby – Ovechkin head-to-head graphic; write down your favourite “clash of the hockey superpowers”-type catch-phrase. Canada and Russia will meet Wednesday night in the quarterfinals of the 2010 Winter Olympics men’s hockey tournament in Vancouver. Oh wait. There’s a game scheduled tonight. It’s easy to overlook [...]
