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USA scored to bring it up to 3-2, in a very strange clusterf*** in the crease.
Last 3 minutes of this period were insane!
And what does Staal mean "For what?!" (As you could clearly see him yelling at the ref)? You jumped on the American's back. That's holding. Anybody tries to argue that call, they're an idiot.
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/CTV/index.html#
Last 3 minutes of this period were insane!
And what does Staal mean "For what?!" (As you could clearly see him yelling at the ref)? You jumped on the American's back. That's holding. Anybody tries to argue that call, they're an idiot.
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/CTV/index.html#
Wow, this is getting pretty intense, 4-2 USA now. 
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DAMN Rafalski, where was this in game 7 last year! :shakes fist at chazwozel:
GO USA, this is crazy...
GO USA, this is crazy...
Virtually every part of my prediction has already been proven wrong.
Canada's starting to look real tired. They better pull something magnificent here.
Canada's starting to look real tired. They better pull something magnificent here.
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There is the start of it...4-3 now.
if the score holds -- or gets worse -- do you expect luongo in next game?
Wow, that was a hell of a game.
I was kinda right about Brodeur.
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There is the start of it...4-3 now.
if the score holds -- or gets worse -- do you expect luongo in next game?[/QUOTE]
I was surprised when Babcock named Brodeur in net for THIS game. If he puts him in against Germany too I'll be shocked.
I love Brodeur, but he's not the shining representatin of Goaltending he once was.
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This is just one more thing that NBC fucked up though...they have the NHL contract, lets show tape delayed skiing and shove usa/canada hockey to MSNBC. Absolutely terrible on NBC's part. Fantastic showing by USA hockey. Great game all around.
Cheers. Good game.
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wana10
completely agree...those idiots. and then they cut away from ice dancing to show a tape of german bobsledding, and then interrupt the bobsled run to go to breaking coverage of the end of the us/canada match...3 hours after the damn thing ended! fuck nbc, no wonder you assholes are losing so much money on these olympics
completely agree...those idiots. and then they cut away from ice dancing to show a tape of german bobsledding, and then interrupt the bobsled run to go to breaking coverage of the end of the us/canada match...3 hours after the damn thing ended! fuck nbc, no wonder you assholes are losing so much money on these olympics[/QUOTE]
Now that's just lazy.They broke in live on the east coast, but didn't bother to fix the tape for the west coast? Just more proof that Dick Ebersol is a smurfing idiot.
Dave
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Why not just make all events On Demand? And I don't mean Pay per View but On Demand. Want to watch Sweden/Finland in curling? *click* 12.5K women's biatholon? *click*
We have the technology to do this. You'd think they'd stop trying to please everyone by airing a part here and a part there and just start PLEASING EVERYONE by letting them watch what they wanted.
We have the technology to do this. You'd think they'd stop trying to please everyone by airing a part here and a part there and just start PLEASING EVERYONE by letting them watch what they wanted.
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They should have had the US/Canada game live on the HD NBC channel instead of MSNBC.
I totally missed that game! Damn NBC. I just saw some people prancing on ice, and just started watching the last half of the last season of BSG instead.
It was on MSNBC, which we all agree was dumb, but I guess NBC thought the ice skating would draw a bigger crowd than hockey.
Figure Skating is the reason the networks pay the millions of dollars for the Winter Games. I doubt that Hockey even came close to the ratings of skating.
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darkangel6988
awwww figure skating my favorite....Prolly because I figured skated for about 18 years of my life......Did anyone hear about the poor canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette.....My friend used to skate with her she's from around where I live and her mother landed in Vancouver saturday and died suddenly on Sunday morning.......So tragic......She's still gonna skate I sure hope she does well 
Just had to share that !
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AND BAHHHHHHHHHHH TO YOU AMERICANS WINNING THE HOCKEY......canada is coming back I swear they have to its what us canadians do lol!
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AND BAHHHHHHHHHHH TO YOU AMERICANS WINNING THE HOCKEY......canada is coming back I swear they have to its what us canadians do lol!
I agree with that 100%[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I don't want to see Canada/Russia in the gold medal game anymore. We'll see them on Wednesday. I want a rematch.
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Figure Skating is the reason the networks pay the millions of dollars for the Winter Games. I doubt that Hockey even came close to the ratings of skating.[/QUOTE]
Not in Canada.
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/hockey/news/newsid=50024.html#record+audience+canada+u+s+hockey+tilt
But we are talking about NBC, Americans as a whole don't watch that much hockey. Hence, what was supposed to be one of the greatest games ever, got put on a channel that hardly anyone knows about.
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Alex B.
This is the first time I've really watched the Winter Olympics since I was a kid. I recall really enjoying them back when I had a big crush on Kristi Yamaguchi. I'm liking it, but I've noticed a few things:
- Skeleton sounds like something someone suggested as a joke, but they were taken seriously. "Hey guys, luge is for wimps, amiright? You should turn it around! No, wait, I was kidding!"
- The ski jump appears to be less a jump so much as a fall off the edge of a ramp.
- It is hilarious that people consider Johnny Weir's costumes to be more ridiculous than the other skaters'.
- Snowboarding is more fun to watch than it has any right to be, and the boarders are surprisingly popular for people whose fashion is stuck in the mid-'90s.
- I'm not sure if ice dancing is a real thing or is someone is playing an elaborate hoax on me. It is silly.
Dave
Staff member
Also:
- Curling is surprisingly hypnotic, even if I have no idea really what's going on.
- I still don't like women's hockey.
- Style points for ski jumping? Really? Not just who can fly the farthest? That's dumb!
- Short track speed skating rocks all kinds of ass.
- I hate ANY sport where opinionated judging determines the outcomes.
- NBC, for all its history and money, can't broadcast their way out of a paper sack.
They need to rename figure skating, since they no longer skate figures onto the ice. (figure 8's etc.)
Call it prancing on blades...
Call it prancing on blades...
But it's fun to watch Russians named Plushenko cry and cry and cry. 
http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid=441532.html?__source=msnhomepage&cid=
http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid=441532.html?__source=msnhomepage&cid=
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