All Entries Tagged With: "Olympics"
The NHL Should Pull Rank In Sochi
There is no doubt in my mind that the NHL should continue to participate in the Olympics in Sochi and beyond. Yes, I know it shuts down the league for two weeks but owners are still getting 41 home games just at a different time of the year and they are still getting the same [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Marty At The Bat
From 20,000 throats and more there rose a lusty cheer;
It rumbled through the Rockies and made us drop our beer;
It knocked upon the skybox and upon the ice so flat,
For Marty, mighty Marty, was advancing to the bat.
No Need for Panic
Canadians all around the country this morning are busy trying to find different ways to blame Steve Yzerman and Mike Babcock for last night’s 5-3 loss to the United States in the last game of the Group round at Vancouver. Yzerman didn’t choose the right defensemen, the right forwards. Babcock didn’t play the right goaltender. [...]
US Hockey Win Over Canada No Miracle, Just Hard Work & Clutch Goaltending
Some who do not have much hockey acumen, like some of the MSNBC announcers…where last night’s game was buried as NBC went with pairs figure skating coveting the female audience over responsible sports coverage…will paint the US win over Canada as some David versus Goliath miracle win from some sort of mismatch. Nothing would be [...]
First “The Goal”. Now, “The Hit”.
Having not played against Ovechkin in two-plus years, perhaps Jagr forgot exactly how predatory Ovechkin’s style of play is. Well, Ovechkin gave him the refresher course.
Miller sensational, U.S. heads to quarterfinals with win over Canada
American goaltender Ryan Miller emerged as a steel-nerved hero during a highly anticipated Canada – U.S. preliminary round game, stopping 42 shots as the U.S. advanced straight to the quarterfinals with a 5-3 win at Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver. Miller, the consensus MVP of the Buffalo Sabres this season, was solid throughout the whole game, but [...]
Will Canada – U.S. battle be as epic as past North American clashes?
A chronology and commentary on some of the most memorable Canada vs. United States hockey games of the modern era. Gary Suter’s cross-check on Wayne Gretzky … Brett Hull and John LeClair dominating at the 1996 World Cup … Joe Sakic’s breakaway in Salt Lake City to seal Canada’s first Olympic gold in 50 years…
Do YOU believe in Miracles?
I was 10 years old, living in a hockey crazed house in hockey crazed New England, and living just 25 minutes outside of Boston I worshipped Jimmy (Craig) and Rizzo (Mike Eruzione) and just 10 days before the Olympics was crushed to read in the newspaper (yes, I read the newspaper) that Russia had blasted [...]
Bring it, Yankees! Maple syrup-soaked hoseheads are ready!
We approach the end of the preliminary round in the men’s hockey tournament of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. This evening at 7.40 pm EST/4.40 pm PST, the United States and Canada will faceoff for the first time in a best-on-best hockey competition since the round-robin portion of the 2004 World Cup. Before and after that [...]
Olympic Famine: NBC Starving Viewers of Hockey Coverage
Since the opening ceremonies in Vancouver kicked off the 21st Winter Olympics, the cherished ice-hockey round-robin preliminaries have presented hockey addicts with some already memorable moments. Beginning with the Swiss nearly stunning the seemingly indestructible Team Canada in a 3-2 shootout loss, Slovakia coming back from a one goal deficit in the third period to [...]
