2010 Winter Olympics

[ice grillin you]

i flip to it and try to watch but its so bad...look i understand people loving the olympics for what it is...its not my cup of tea but whatever...but dont try and say this is great hockey cause its not even close...if that game last night was flyers pens in the playoffs no one would be saying a word today...

its all about the underdog americans beating the canadian machine...and i get that and totally understand it...its why people like matty who dont watch hockey get into this...its why 72 year old women from arkansas watch...the GAMES might be great to some but the HOCKEY isnt


now the canada cup was classic hockey...that shtein was unreal

[Seabiscuit36]

IGY saying it sucks...Check
IGY Going with It used to be better..check
Attack on MA...check.  well done

[rjs246]

Where's MDS?

[BigEd76]

Thanks to Sweden shutting out Finland late last night, USA is the #1 seed in the tournament and gets the winner of Switzerland/Belarus while Canada has to face Russia in the quarterfinals, so one of those teams is guaranteed to leave without a medal.  ha

[ice grillin you]

IGY saying it sucks...Check
IGY Going with It used to be better..check
Attack on MA...check.  well done

its bad hockey...because youre to young to remember great hockey is not a fault of mine

didnt attack MA just pointing out the appeal of the olympics and to say that because the attraction of the event is great does not make the play great....its similar to the ncaa tourney now...the event is much better than the actually play

[phattymatty]

i like hockey and will watch flyers games when i can but rarely set aside time to watch an entire game from beginning to end like i did last night.  and lol at calling the us-canada all star teams rag tag hockey.

[Seabiscuit36]

IGY saying it sucks...Check
IGY Going with It used to be better..check
Attack on MA...check.  well done

its bad hockey...because youre to young to remember great hockey is not a fault of mine

didnt attack MA just pointing out the appeal of the olympics and to say that because the attraction of the event is great does not make the play great....its similar to the ncaa tourney now...the event is much better than the actually play

Sorry i'm not 30 yet.  I tried being born earlier because things were better, but my parents didnt listen

[ice grillin you]

i like hockey and will watch flyers games when i can but rarely set aside time to watch an entire game from beginning to end like i did last night.  and lol at calling the us-canada all star teams rag tag hockey.

you cant in a couple days just toss together an entire team and expect great hockey...then on top of that you had all these guys just play a first half nhl schedule that had 60 games crammed into four months....its just not a recipe that allows for great play

what it can lead to is a great tournament...its why the swiss can take the canadians to a shootout and america can beat canada

[phattymatty]

and that's not fun to watch why? 

[ice grillin you]

oh for many people its tremendous fun...its like a mini version of the world cup...which is another event i could care less about but people love...altho the world cup i assume has great soccer being played...i wouldnt know

its not fun for me cause i have no rooting interest...its not part of a larger season that includes divisions and standings and stuff...in the end i just dont give a farg about any result in this whole tournament...really the only thing i want is for ovechkin to become paralyzed but im not gonna watch the games for that


if the us makes the gold medal game and theres nothing better to watch im sure ill tune in to some or most of it

[phattymatty]

whatever commie.


USA!!  USA!!  USA!!

[SunMo]

[ice grillin you]

speaking of olympic hockey and i hate the guy...but how does mike emerick so flawlessly announce these games when like russia is playing czech or two random euro teams...not only does he have to mentally match all these players numbers with names but he also has to know how to pronounce them all and he has to learn all this in a short period of time...and he does like hes doing devils-flyers...its amazing to me

[phattymatty]

i'm pretty sure eddie olczyk called the game "tremendously tremendous" at one point.

[rjs246]

i'm pretty sure eddie olczyk called the game "tremendously tremendous" at one point.

Ha! He definitely did.