OT - Canada's Unexpected Rise to Hockey Gold...man this team really came out of nowhere.
A fine article here that really captures the character of this Canadian team that had to come together to beat the odds, with the deck stacked against them from the get-go.
Also I find the presidential wager comical.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/What-We-Learned-Congra…
EDIT: Any ideas on what Harper put on the line?
Wow, sarcasm meter got pegged there. Bravo.
Can we get over ourselves?
Canada won the Gold medal after having a gauntlet of games and a hell of a test with the 6 seed in the tourney.
I know that it's fun to rip on Canadians and such but seriously can you just drop it. Jesus Christ it's like the Freep.
Congratulations to Canada their team truly was the best in the world.
It's just a little satire, friend. I give credit where it's due, Canada's team was supposed to be the best in the world and they were. They won the gold medal. But that's where it ends. In no way am I 'ripping on Canadians'. It's a friendly sarcastic take on the misrepresentation of the situation, that's all. Maybe you should go police the "I hate Crosby" thread, there are much worse things being said about Canadians in that thread.
I thought that we were better than this especially at a site like MGoBlog where we are arguing "what makes a Michigan Man".
But this is like the 10th post about the USA Canada game talking shit about Canadians.
As someone said in an earlier thread about something completely un-related "Anyone can win with grace but it takes someone with real sportsmanship to lose with grace". (It was in the thread about Crosby and how he can't lose with class).
So how about we as Americans lose with some class?
n/m edited for stupid.
Edit: not your stupid, mine.
They were expected to win it all in the first place! It was USA who was the odd man out coming into the tournament not Canada!
This made my day.
can almost never be considered an underdog when it comes to Hockey. I'm not surprised they won the gold one bit. Congrats to them.
Basketball
Football (will never happen)
Baseball
Softball
Swimming
Yet when our Olympians win or come from behind everyone talks about how it shows guts, grit, and determination. Honestly this is just the typical American media pandering to it's base of Americans that we are better than everyone else.
Frankly it gets annoying. How about some unbiased reporting?
Nowadays, you'd be hard pressed to find unbiased reporting. Just about everyone in the media has some type of agenda or bias these days, nothing new there. As for "The US should never lose in"...I disagree with your stance on Baseball. Most kids growing up these days gravitate to either Football or Basketball. Whereas in say, Cuba, Baseball is almost religion. So I wouldn't say we should be considered a "given" to win any Baseball tourneys.
Hockey=Canada's past-time
Baseball=America's past-time
Argh. It's pastime not past-time.
I think in the case of baseball, it really is past-time. As in, at one time in the past, baseball was America's pastime.
And then the NFL happened.
"Honestly this is just the typical American media pandering to it's base of Americans that we are better than everyone else"
Except for the fact that this entire article is based entirely on the notion that we are not better than Canada at hockey.
"How about some unbiased reporting?"
That is exactly what this article is asking for. The author is constructing a hyperbole to show that the Americans deserve some respect as well. That's all. He isn't bitch-slapping Canadians, as you have implied. It's just some friendly sarcasm.
And as for your comment about losing with some class, I find it pertinent to tell you that I watched this game with a number of my Canadian friends (who for whatever reason don't know very much about hockey) and despite the fact that they were talking shit the entire game, even though they really didn't know what they were talking about, I didn't return fire and happily congratulated them once the game was over. I also watched the entire medal ceremony with them. (I also thought that the Crosby-vision was overkill, I would have liked to see some other players during the ceremony, but oh well.)
There's no such thing as unbiased reporting. Those who claim to be unbiased or have "no spin" are likely unwilling to admit their own biases and as a result are more biased. Transparency is most important when reporting, but is extremely rare today. Most news channels and programs have become opinion channels.
I'm not a huge Hockey fan but yesterday was an eye opener for me and I think I'm going to follow the NHL more closely now. Team USA played great and I'm proud we got silver as no one picked us for a medal.
Gary Bettman would love to hear you say that.
Didn't draw any new audiences/fans. DAMN THE OLYMPICS!
Pretty sure Harper wagered a 24 of Molson.
If that's true then we were getting screwed no matter what. Molson vs. Yuengling? Obama should have held out for Big Rock or swapped it for Miller Lite.
C'mon, Yuengling isn't that bad.
Plus, it's the oldest brewery in Canada versus the oldest (continuously operating) brewery in the US. Makes sense to me.
Yuengling is terrific. We bet great beer against shitty.
USA outscored Canada in H2H in the Olympics and didn't win the gold. Talk about putting the fix on.
..the gold medal was awarded based solely on round robin play. (medal round was a second series versus the top teams in the other groups, games played in the first round robin carried over). This includes the 1980 gold medal which would have gone to the Soviets had US lost to Finland in their final game or had they not managed to tie Sweden in the preliminary rounds.
Funny, how this time the Canadians benefitted from a playoff bracket that they and Europeans so often like to trash as being the inferior way to determine a champion.
Still the game-tying goal was one of the craziest awesome moments in recent sports memory, even if it turned out wrong in the end.
Agreed on the awesomeness of Parise's goal at the end of the third. I probably yelled and jumped around more than I did when Manningham caught the winning TD against Penn State. If Team USA would have scored in OT I probably would have broken things in celebration.
Then, of course, having to watch Crosby of all people score the OT winner. That was so painful because I have such an irrational dislike for the guy, what with being a Detroit fan living in Pittsburgh. I respect him as a player, don't get me wrong. But the constant media attention and NBC's portrayal of Team Canada as "Team Crosby" does such a disservice to the other 24 players on the team, many of which I thought played a better overall tournament than Crosby. More than one person I know here was actually pulling for Canada because they want to see Crosby be successful (these are born-and-raised Americans, mind you).
I hope like hell that's sarcasm.
As one of a smattering of Canadians who are regulars here [and die hard Wolverines] all I really want to say in the wake of our glorious victory is...
NA NA NA...NA NA NA...HEY HEY HEY...GOODBYE!
Victory is sweet...
As an American I can laugh at this and appreciate it without getting my panties all in a bunch like some others on this board. Good game, ya hoser.
After the first game and the tie up goal in the final minute, the whole of Canada must've been sweating Molson's and holding their breath .... a whole country turning blue
Congratulations!
You have no idea...when they went into a defensive shell in the middle of the second period, I could feel my stomach knot up. And when Miller got pulled in the last minute, I almost closed my eyes so I would not see what I knew would be coming. Then Sid the Kid gets his first goal in 8 periods and all is right with the world again. :-)
to your Canadian citizenship.
We're still celebrating with cigars and beer (Canadian Olympic Style)
That was a great celebration.
Although, overall I think the best Canadian moment was when the crowd at the Curling arena spontaneously sang Oh Canada in the 10th end of the Gold Medal game, once the Canadian team was basically guaranteed the win. I'm not even a Canadian, but still had chills on that one.
take off, eh....the hockey score for the Olympic Games is actually USA 7, Canada 6 :P
Later we'll change the format to 40 0vers like Olympic cricket.
He he he...that sound like the kind of statistic that guy who finished second would use to try to convince himself he actually won...
NA NA NA...NA NA NA...HEY HEY HEY...GOODBYE!
:-)
It tends to reinforce my lack of a desire for a college football playoff, is all. We kicked your ass in one game....you squeaked by in OT the second time around....care for a rubber match? Or should we settle it with a friendly game of baseball, basketball, soccer, or football?
Let's go all NHL and do a best of 7...Canada in 5 games?
Yah, it's
na na na na
na na na na
hey hey hey
goodbye
Now make like a tree an leave, eh.
j/k, I'm totally joking. I love Canada.
Sucks that the US didn't win the gold, but hey, the "experts" didn't even have the team on the podium at the end. The only thing that made me absolutely sick was Crosby scored the game winning goal. Crosby is a great hockey player, but he's such a little bitch. If you put him on a line with Perry and Getzlaf I think you would have the ultimate bitch line of all time. Too bad Nash didn't get the final goal because that dude is a boss and I actually have a ton of respect for him. Nash plays the game it was meant to be played and makes no excuses.
As for the baseball thing. The US will never win any baseball competition because the top players don't even play. Face it, if Verlander, Lincecum, and Sabathia suited up for a 3 man rotation, the US team would pretty much dominate. Last year's US WBC squad's top pitchers were Oswalt, Peavy, and Broxton. Fine pitchers in their own right, but definitely not in the same level as Verlander, Lincecum, or Sabathia.
Basketball, if the US sends the best, it's theirs. A second tier team just wont cut it internationally anymore.
Football. Yeah... Too bad there isn't a football tournament because the US would dominate.
That's why I love hockey. The best players actually WANT to play for their country. Ovie already said he's going to 2014 and he doesn't care what the NHL says. Same can't be said for baseball or basketball.
But yeah, congrats Canada. We have to let them enjoy something since the Cup hasn't touched Canadian land since the Canadians won it in '93. ;-)