Comments on: Team Canada Finds Olympic Glory

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:41:20 +0000

Top summary and I was so pleased to see Tazer do well. He seemed to fly under the radar before the Games so nice to see him get the recognition having started as a fourth liner

By: Meg Jarrell

Meg Jarrell — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:56:02 +0000

Awesome summary Bournie! You get an A++ in my grade book, especially for giving my boy Drew Doughty the props he deserves. It Bettman grows a brain and continues to let NHL players participate in the Olympics, you’re looking at a future captain for Team Canada wearing number 8.

Keep up the great work!

By: minnesotagirl71

minnesotagirl71 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:58 +0000

I’m hoping Josh’s statement about the US only sending their best athletes to the summer games was meant to be sarcastic. I don’t think anyone who can compete at the Olympic level can be called a tier 2 athlete. Maybe he was trying for one of those “Meh – we don’t care about hockey” statements.

I do care about hockey. It was so depressing to see the American’s mopey faces after the game. I was glad to see Ryan Miller smiling and holding up his silver medal at the closing ceremonies.

I’m ok with the Team Canada win. If the US had won, I would have felt bad for Team Canada and the Canadian fans. (So I was pretty much going to feel bad for someone no matter who won.) It was great for them to win on home ice in front of all those fans who care so passionately about hockey.

By: Richie

Richie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:10:52 +0000

“fanboys will” – sorry typo.

By: Richie

Richie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:10:01 +0000

Despite my personal distaste for charisma-less Crosby, I fear now the fanboys who hold up Crosby’s stanley cup & olympic achievement as definative proof he’s the best player around, which completely over-looks that hockey is a team game and more of the credit should go to the guys he played with.

I’ll retract that statement when Lemiuex renames the team the Pittsburgh Crosbys and puts his face on the front of the sweater. Bettman would love that…….

As for Luongo, I’ve played on heavily-favoured teams and rightfully got little kudos when we did they expected and won. It’s not his fault, he didn’t need to steal a game, just not cost Canada a game. Much like Crosby, I think Luongo was propped up by a team effort, in contrast to Miller who got team support but also flat-out robbed guys to carry his team.

By: SDC

SDC — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:10:08 +0000

So much pent up American frustration and Crosby/Luongo hate! We know you guys care about hockey… you just choose to display it in very concealed manners.

I like Ovechkin too, but Sid’s got a Cup and a Gold medal at age 22; Crosby’s successes are beginning to put some distance between him and Ovie.

Tip of the cap to USA hockey for how far you’ve come… and how Brian Burke mentioned, how well you did considering what you were projected to do. Who knows what would’ve happened if you’d won; all I know is, IT FEELS AWESOME to be on the winning side. http://bit.ly/djvjAd

By: Jim L.

Jim L. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:17:13 +0000

Hey Bourne, was just watching Sports Center. They had a poll asking if the US hockey run gave you more interest, less interest, or unchanged in the sport of hockey. Results ended with 51 percent unchanged, 47 percent more interest, and 2 percent less interest. I would have to say from an American standpoint, these Olympics were just what we needed to help promote hockey more down here. Although the Gold would have been nice to add

By: Travelchic59

Travelchic59 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:43:58 +0000

Congratulations to Team Canada on winning the Gold. As an American, i thought it was one of the most exciting games I’ve ever seen. It ranked right up there with my Islanders winning the 4 Stanley Cups and the Miracle on Ice game of 1980. (I am old enough to have witnessed all 5 events).

Congrats to Team USA on an unbelievable tournament. They made me proud to be an American. They left everything they had on the ice and that is all I can ask. It was a tought loss and I feel for the team, but the better team won on that day.

I do have to tell you the one very good outcome from this game was that ESPN Radio in NY spent a good amount of the day talking about the game and what type of impact it might have going forward for hockey as a whole. This is huge as they rarely if ever talk about hockey at all even though they have Don LaGreca (NHL Live) as one of the cohosts and he is a huge hockey enthusiast and one of the only NY area hosts that is very knowledgeable about the game.

My one thought was that people who don’t normally follow the sport might be disappointed when they watch a regular NHL game as the action stops much more frequently due to all the commercial breaks. If only all games had the intensity of the Olympics and not just the Stanley Cup playoffs.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:45:53 +0000

Pat – It’s a personality thing. We don’t like Crosby because we don’t like Crosby. He could cure a disease, I mean not like AIDS or anything but you know, something, and we’d still hate his stupid face.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:17:41 +0000

I dunno Josh, doesn’t every country send mostly tier 2 (or lower) athletes to the Olympics, mostly because there isn’t much money in it so why not play football/baseball/basketball instead? I also think we should shy away from making nationality based generalizations, particularly ones like “our best athletes do not like cold so they only only go to the summer games”. Don’t the Americans do pretty well at both? Do Americans in Florida, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Georgia, Alaska, etc., all feel the same about the weather? Not to mention, how would all of the U.S. athletes who won gold over international competition feel about being called tier 2 athletes? I apologize in advance if some internet sarcasm went over my head there, it wouldn’t be the first time!!