Olympic Women Hockey

[Old Dog Flying]

Canada vs Sweden...10 minutes into the second period...11-0...Canada. Give 'er shit! Whoops 12-0...too quick to keep up with these tired old fingers.

Maybe the friggin' Brits can find fault with us over this.

[Carrier]

Do the Canadian women fight, cause bench clearing brawls, spear and board their opponents, etc? If not, why not? They are supposed to be Canadians and fighting and cheating are part of the "game" in Canada! A few days ago Jaime Sale was calling for more fist fights. That was from a former ice dancer. Don Cherry must be proud of her. Own the podium - one fist at a time.

[Doc]

The Canadian women outscored their "competition", 46-2 in the games leading to the Gold Medal game.
The American women outscored their "competition", by a very similar 40-2.
Some Olympic Medals are real. Women's hockey is a total JOKE! The Canadians and the Americans are guaranteed at least a Silver Medal, just by showing up.
I think this is wrong. It makes a mockery of sport. It cheapens REAL medal performances.
Some Canadians have done us proud. These athletes competed at a world level against REAL competition.
Women's hockey, at least for now, is in no way an "Olympic" sport.
Any of us could have played goal for the Canadian or the American hockey teams, and that team would have made it to the "Gold Medal" Game. What a joke!!

[bandaid]

I wonder? When they say that there is a pad save, what exactly do they mean?

[Doc]

Well, here we are. End of "period" deux. Gold Medal Game. 2-0 for the Canadians. The Yanks have had, not one, but TWO, five on three advantages! The Canadian goalie is doing hand stands. It's a good game. It usually is. It's the "joke" that leads up to it!

[Lurch]

Well, here we are. End of "period" deux. Gold Medal Game. 2-0 for the Canadians. The Yanks have had, not one, but TWO, five on three advantages! The Canadian goalie is doing hand stands. It's a good game. It usually is. It's the "joke" that leads up to it!

I haven't watched a lot of events, mostly hockey and curling, but I remember years when Canadians get slaughtered in other events, to place in the double digits. These countries we are destroying in hockey could do the same to us in other events. So it may be an easy medal for us, but I'll take it.

Lurch

[lilfssister]

They're golden!

[AUGER9]

Good job Ladies!!

[Kitababy]

Complain to the IOC and IIHF, not Canada. Until they remove goal differential and goals scored from the criteria to decide rankings coming out of the pools, and decide they with tie-breaking games instead, it makes no sense for the teams to hold back.

I completely agree!

[Slats]

The Canadians and the Americans are guaranteed at least a Silver Medal, just by showing up.

Not entirely. You should check out the results from 2006, Doc.

[Donald]

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/hockey/story ... ockey.html

IOC's Rogge demands better women's hockey

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge warned women's ice hockey officials on Thursday to improve the parity in competition or risk having the sport dropped from the Games.

Hours before the gold medal final between the United States and Canada, dominant powers in a tournament where they routed outmatched rivals, Rogge said the Olympics can bear the lopsidedness for only so long.

"There is a discrepancy. Everyone agrees with that," Rogge said. "This may be the investment period for women's ice hockey. I would personally give them more time to grow but there must be a period of improvement.

"We cannot continue without improvement."

U.S. and Canadian women have played in every world championship and Olympic final with the exception of the 2006 Turin Games, when Sweden upset the Americans in a semi-final.

Canadian and U.S. "girls are on another planet," said Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation.

U.S. forward Monique Lamoureux compares the level of play by the two top teams to the superiority Canada and the Soviet Union enjoyed in men's hockey a generation ago.

"If you look back 30 to 40 years ago, Canada and Russia were blowing men's hockey out of the water, but other countries came around," she said. "It's just going to take time and hopefully people will be patient."

Sweden and Finland have battled for third place at most major global events, a notch below the U.S. and Canadian women but above the rest of their rivals.

The Finns beat Sweden 3-2 for Vancouver Winter Olympic bronze on Thursday, and both coaches defended the suitability of women's hockey for the Games.

"There are lots of sports on the Olympic agenda where you can say that," Swedish coach Peter Elander said. "The North American teams spent eight times the Swedish budget, spent twice as much time together."

His suggestion was parity in preparation time or more financial support for the nations where the sport is trying to grow, where hundreds of women play compared with the tens of thousands in North America.

"There would be a gap," Elander said. "If you want to close that, you will have to have all teams prepare the same way."

He also defended the honour of lesser teams, saying the women gave their best and sacrificed for the opportunity.

"Anyone who says the other teams did not prepare is misinformed," Elander said.

Finland coach Pekka Hamalainen said he hoped a new program aimed at improving Finnish fortunes in 2014 at Sochi, Russia, would move his women to challenge the elite U.S. and Canadian teams for gold.

"We can't compete with the number of players in North America and the resources," Hamalainen said. "But we're confident about the future."

[xsbank]

Hey Nark! Nya nya nya nyaaaaa!

Go Team Canada!

[. ._]

I don't give a @#$! about the Olympics, but I'm all for partying with young sweaty girls!

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/hockey/story ... nking.html

-istp

[Doc]

I don't give a @#$! about the Olympics, but I'm all for partying with young sweaty girls!

istp....anybody called you a "Pig" yet today? See ya at da party..YAH!