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Fuck you. That is all.

23 seconds before the end was luck enough...

*pumps fist drunkenly*

Attention, All Canadians!

Congrats on a great game and your new gold medal.

soooo how bout them Canadian NHL teams...

Chazwozel said:

soooo how bout them Canadian NHL teams...

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Yeah, our NHL teams don't do so great. All our players are on the US teams. This is why I don't follow the NHL. I have no reason to root for any team in particular. They're all loaded with Americans, Russians and Swedes. Canadians still make up 51% of the teams, but still.

After these Olympics, I might just start watchign the San Jose Sharks though. Three Canadians there proved to be some of our best guys in the Olympics.

I think the USA team actually played Canada more evenly in this game than the last. And I was pretty happy with the play of the Blackhawks olympians all tournament (although Seabrook didn't get much ice time today).

Chazwozel said:

soooo how bout them Canadian NHL teams...

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The Senators and Canucks top both of their divisions.

That's not bad considering there's only 6 Canadian teams.

Besides, I'm an old school Oilers fan (from the suburbs of Edmonton). I'm used to cheering for the worst in the league.

ATTENTION NORTH AMERICANS

Hockey is played on grass, that is all.

ATTENTION NON NORTH AMERICANS

We don't give a fuck.

Alternatively

ATTENTION NON NORTH AMERICANS

We mean Ice Hockey, but you know what, we like to shorten the names of things, fuck off.

checkeredhat said:

After these Olympics, I might just start watchign the San Jose Sharks though. Three Canadians there proved to be some of our best guys in the Olympics.

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Which one underperformed: Thornton, Marleau, Heatley, or Boyle?

gargoyle_eva said:

ATTENTION NORTH AMERICANS

Hockey is played on grass, that is all.

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ATTENTION BRITISH OR SOME DERIVATIVE/FORMER DEPENDANT OF

It's not just NA, the rest of the world refers to ice hockey as just hockey too...

klew said:

Which one underperformed: Thornton, Marleau, Heatley, or Boyle?

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All or none, depending on the game. Overall, though, they all came to play.

...I was surprised too.

QUESTION TO NON-NORTH AMERICANS:

Isn't it technically called 'association football'?

(I'm not sure if it is, but that's what I've been told.)

Getting back to the matter at hand:

Attention: All Americans!

*ahem*

Nyah nyah!

gargoyle_eva said:

ATTENTION NORTH AMERICANS

Hockey is played on grass, that is all.

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Yeah by girls in short skirts. oww right!

Rob King said:

QUESTION TO NON-NORTH AMERICANS:

Isn't it technically called 'association football'?

(I'm not sure if it is, but that's what I've been told.)

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nope,

well technically but then you need to say AMERICAN football all the time to. We just follow what the most of the world does.


Oh and congratulations Canada I was rooting for you guys!

Biardo;347596][QUOTE=Rob King said:

QUESTION TO NON-NORTH AMERICANS:

Isn't it technically called 'association football'?

(I'm not sure if it is, but that's what I've been told.)

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nope,

well technically but then you need to say AMERICAN football all the time to. We just follow what the most of the world does.


Oh and congratulations Canada I was rooting for you guys![/QUOTE]


This is football:



This is soccer:

In before hand-egg.

Chazwozel;347598][QUOTE=Biardo;347596][QUOTE=Rob King said:

QUESTION TO NON-NORTH AMERICANS:

Isn't it technically called 'association football'?

(I'm not sure if it is, but that's what I've been told.)

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nope,

well technically but then you need to say AMERICAN football all the time to. We just follow what the most of the world does.


Oh and congratulations Canada I was rooting for you guys![/QUOTE]


This is football:
*snip*

This is soccer:

*sniiiiiiiiip*[/QUOTE]
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I think we can all agree that baseball sucks.

Chazwozel said:

I think we can all agree that baseball sucks.

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Amen.

CynicismKills said:

In before hand-egg.

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Ta-dah.

Hey hey what?

Canada is our hat!

From Scandinavia and the World, of course!

Dave said:

Canada is our hat!

From Scandinavia and the World, of course!

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You have it wrong. The USA is actually our underpants.

Whenever we soil ourselves....

checkeredhat;347707][QUOTE=Dave said:

Canada is our hat!

From Scandinavia and the World, of course!

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You have it wrong. The USA is actually our underpants.[/QUOTE]

So you're saying Canada wears granny panties?

Chazwozel;347721][QUOTE=checkeredhat;347707][QUOTE=Dave said:

Canada is our hat!

From Scandinavia and the World, of course!

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You have it wrong. The USA is actually our underpants.[/QUOTE]
So you're saying Canada wears granny panties?[/QUOTE]


Long Johns. Its cold up here.

I'm sorry. Who posted that first post there? What did it say?

You see, I couldn't see over the sheen of ALL OUR GOLD MEDALS.

klew;347533][QUOTE=checkeredhat said:

After these Olympics, I might just start watchign the San Jose Sharks though. Three Canadians there proved to be some of our best guys in the Olympics.

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Which one underperformed: Thornton, Marleau, Heatley, or Boyle?[/QUOTE]

Embarassingly, I just forgot about Thornton in a momentary brain fart.

Biardo;347596][QUOTE=Rob King said:

QUESTION TO NON-NORTH AMERICANS:

Isn't it technically called 'association football'?

(I'm not sure if it is, but that's what I've been told.)

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nope,

well technically but then you need to say AMERICAN football all the time to. We just follow what the most of the world does.[/QUOTE]

Well, isn't that called Gridiron Football?

All I'm saying is, if Europeans can drop 'Association' from 'Association Football' and have everyone in the world understand what they're saying, and Americans can drop 'Gridiron' or 'American' from 'Gridiron Football' or 'American Football' (as the case may be,) I think we can get away with dropping the 'Ice' from 'Ice Hockey.'

Rob King;347778][QUOTE=Biardo;347596][QUOTE=Rob King said:

QUESTION TO NON-NORTH AMERICANS:

Isn't it technically called 'association football'?

(I'm not sure if it is, but that's what I've been told.)

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nope,

well technically but then you need to say AMERICAN football all the time to. We just follow what the most of the world does.[/QUOTE]

Well, isn't that called Gridiron Football?

All I'm saying is, if Europeans can drop 'Association' from 'Association Football' and have everyone in the world understand what they're saying, and Americans can drop 'Gridiron' or 'American' from 'Gridiron Football' or 'American Football' (as the case may be,) I think we can get away with dropping the 'Ice' from 'Ice Hockey.'[/QUOTE]

In the states you sound like a douchebag if you call it ice hockey. It's just hockey. Any variation gets its descriptor added to it. For example: field hockey, roller hockey, street hockey, tonsil hockey. If you say 'hockey', it's generally assumed you mean ice hockey.

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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You ever shout "HAT TRICK" in the middle of making out?

Not yet, but the next girl I mack on better watch out.

Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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But just because we've been playing tonsil hockey, doesn't mean you get to score the goal ... in my jockey.

Cajungal;347798][QUOTE=Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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You ever shout "HAT TRICK" in the middle of making out?[/QUOTE]

I did that once with a girl in Detroit.

It was bad news.

Rob King;347805][QUOTE=Cajungal;347798][QUOTE=Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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You ever shout "HAT TRICK" in the middle of making out?[/QUOTE]

I did that once with a girl in Detroit.

It was bad news.[/QUOTE]

It was Detroit, so technically she was a man.

Chazwozel;347836][QUOTE=Rob King;347805][QUOTE=Cajungal;347798][QUOTE=Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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You ever shout "HAT TRICK" in the middle of making out?[/QUOTE]

I did that once with a girl in Detroit.

It was bad news.[/QUOTE]

It was Detroit, so technically she was a man.[/QUOTE]

And here I was thinking it was normal for American girls to smell so musk-y.

Rob King;347843][QUOTE=Chazwozel;347836][QUOTE=Rob King;347805][QUOTE=Cajungal;347798][QUOTE=Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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You ever shout "HAT TRICK" in the middle of making out?[/QUOTE]

I did that once with a girl in Detroit.

It was bad news.[/QUOTE]

It was Detroit, so technically she was a man.[/QUOTE]

And here I was thinking it was normal for American girls to smell so musk-y.[/QUOTE]

DON'T STOP BELIEVIN! HOLD ON TO THE FEELLLLIN"

Ahem. We still have more medals.

G S B Total

1. United States 9 15 13 37
2. Germany 10 13 7 30
3. Canada 14 7 5 26

drawn_inward said:

1.

United States: 9 151 337
2.

Germany: 1 013 730
3.

Canada: 147 526

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Holy crap. I didn't realize they awarded that many medals!

drawn_inward said:

Ahem. We still have more medals.

G S B Total

1.

United States 9 15 13 37
2.

Germany 10 13 7 30
3.

Canada 14 7 5 26

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Serious answer: Yeah, you guys did well.

Keeping in tone with the thread answer: It just shows you guys were the best at not winning.

In '72 I didn't fully understand the importance of the game and Canada's victory. In '87 I remember being absolutely astonished by the beauty of the goal and marvelling at those great players. Last night my one year old son had a running battle with me for my cheezies and beer. Until overtime, when he stopped squirming and just sat on my knee. He knew something special was going on and he was tranfixed by the game just as much as I. I'm going to remember that most of all, the sharing of sports with those that we love.

Absolutely.

I'm not a very sport-centric kind of guy. I have very little interest in who can most masterfully control the direction of three inch rubber discs. But the anthropological side of sports, and sport-culture absolutely fascinates me. A few dozen guys skated around a sheet of ice last night and slapped a puck around, and while it happened millions upon millions of people stopped to watch it happen. And when the Canadians won, there were so many people celebrating in the streets of Toronto that they had to shut down Young Street for a few hours.

That fascinates me. Your kid is going to remember something about tonight, when in-and-of-itself, nothing special happened besides two nations coming together in friendly sport.

I wish it had been anything like that in Oakville. I was pretty disappointed with the lack of reaction from this place.

A bunch of other animation students (Including a Polish friend and for a while an indian friend who had never seen hockey played before and asked "Why are they so aggressive?") and I sat and watched the game intently. When Crosby scored the winning goal, we all cheered, even those who had up until that point showed absolutely no interest in hockey, but after that, there was no grand display of comraderie or patriotism. Everyone went back to work before the Canadians even started their victory skate around with that ENORMOUS flag. Everyone just left. I stayed in the hallway, watched the medal ceremony and texted my brother, my dad and my best friend. When I went home shortly after, there were no sound of cheering, no cars honking, the sports bar accross the street seemed empty. Traffic was normal.

Oh how I wanted to be in Toronto yesterday, where people rushed to the middle of intersections whenever there was a red light, to dance and cheer until the light went green, and strangers high fived and hugged eachother. (According to my roommate who spent yesterday there)

Or atleast to be back home watching the game with my family, having a beer with my dad and my brother and pretending that my nephew had a clue what was happening.

Even so, I know where I was when that goal was scored, and I know my whole family was watching too.

gee you guys get all antsy about terminology.

I am a very special case, seeing as I was raised in australia by my western state mother and eastern state father, in that I always use an extra term when talking about sports. Ice hockey, Grass Hockey (the word field is stupid, I've only ever heard americans use it), Roller Hockey, American Football, Soccer Football(keeps both types of people happy), Aussie Rules Football and League Football (rugby for those who don't know, oh and we also have rugby union but that never gets on tv over here). Makes it easier to tell what you're talking about.

Also agreed with baseball, but I raise you Cricket. During the summer months down under, one channel (of a possible 4 choices where I live) is basically this progam:
AM= morning breakfast shows
Lunch= soaps
Afternoon= kids shows
Evening= Cricket
6-7 PM= News (with warnings if they are going to spoil the cricket scores if it's a delayed telecast)
>7= More Cricket
Late Night= Tennis

I would rather watch an entire season of baseball back to back than a 50 over match. Maybe even a 20/20 game too.

I was on the dang Skytrain during the winning goal. I could hear people every time the doors opened at each stop along the way.

Your regional term for something we also have sucks for no good reason!

(Am I doing it right?)

(No)

Canada is seriously the best country to have as a neighbor. You can forget they're even there for decades, and it won't really matter.

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Cajungal;347798][QUOTE=Baerdog7 said:

Tonsil hockey is my favorite hockey.

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You ever shout "HAT TRICK" in the middle of making out?[/QUOTE]

No, but I have spelled it out with the tip of my tongue once or twice.