Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics thread

I didn't expect the US to be so... dominant. They're laying waste to some of these countries.
 
I always enjoy watching Olympic hockey. I don't know why that momentum does not carry over to the NHL for me.
 
Whoever wins Canada-Slovakia, so Canada.

Not so fast, my friend. Not saying the Slovaks will win, but they are a great squad fundementally, and have a passing game that creates a lot of time on target.

Canada seems at moments to play with an "All Star Game" mentality, not expecting defense on the other end. Ya never know.
 
So I guess I was right the other night when I said I'd rather see Kiprusoff than Vokoun, huh? Wow. This is stunning. The Finns are never great, but they're always tough as nails. They might be the last team in the tourney I would have expected to have a complete meltdown like they did in the 1st period.
 
Not so fast, my friend. Not saying the Slovaks will win, but they are a great squad fundementally, and have a passing game that creates a lot of time on target.

Canada seems at moments to play with an "All Star Game" mentality, not expecting defense on the other end. Ya never know.
At the same time, the Finns were 4 in the world coming into the tournament, and the USA was 5. It has become readily evident that the Americans and Canadians are the class of the field, and it isn't really very close.

The scoring that happened in that first 13 mins of this game was absurd. It is easy to blame the keeper, but his defensemen weren't helping him out any.
 
At the same time, the Finns were 4 in the world coming into the tournament, and the USA was 5. It has become readily evident that the Americans and Canadians are the class of the field, and it isn't really very close.

The scoring that happened in that first 13 mins of this game was absurd. It is easy to blame the keeper, but his defensemen weren't helping him out any.

Russia is a hell of a lot better than they were the other night. I expected them to lose to Canada, but the way that game played out was inexplicable.
 
Russia is a hell of a lot better than they were the other night. I expected them to lose to Canada, but the way that game played out was inexplicable.
Do you think at the end of this game you'll be able to exchange Russia for Finland, and Canada for USA? :) :lol:
 
Holy balls, I didn't realize the game was on already, I had to make sure there was no LSD in the bong after I saw the score.
 
Fine. If you're going to argue that the dive is never intended to do anything other than facilitate misdirection, then I fail to see how running garbage plays over and over so that you can eventually spring something somewhere else is significantly different from the basic North American hockey method of getting a guy in front of the goalie, throwing the puck down into the crease, and then hacking at it to get it in. You're still trying to overwhelm the opponent with the brute force of percentages either way.
I didn't argue that it's to facilitate misdirection in the least. It's not to eventually spring something later. It's a part of the option on every play to either run where linebackers vacate or give room for the QB to option the DE alone rather than the end, LB and S. It's not comparable to volume shots on goal based upon the law of percentages. The option play tactically forces a couple of defenders to make a decision and forces the offense to be better or quicker decision makers. It's a skill and execution thing, not a % thing.
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At the same time, the Finns were 4 in the world coming into the tournament, and the USA was 5. It has become readily evident that the Americans and Canadians are the class of the field, and it isn't really very close.

The scoring that happened in that first 13 mins of this game was absurd. It is easy to blame the keeper, but his defensemen weren't helping him out any.

The US team is generally young and fast. Several teams have more talent and skill. The Russians and Czechs both fit that bill.
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The US team is generally young and fast. Several teams have more talent and skill. The Russians and Czechs both fit that bill.
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That may be true, but neither showed it on the ice in this tournament. Czech's lost to the Finns, Russians lost to the Slovaks and got annihilated by Canada.
 
So I guess I was right the other night when I said I'd rather see Kiprusoff than Vokoun, huh? Wow. This is stunning. The Finns are never great, but they're always tough as nails. They might be the last team in the tourney I would have expected to have a complete meltdown like they did in the 1st period.

correct you were, but who'd have expected Mikka to lay a freaking egg like that.
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correct you were, but who'd have expected Mikka to lay a freaking egg like that.
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I still say he was getting ZERO help from his back line.

If I were in the original conversation I would have agreed with Verc just because Vokoun played in Nashville. :)
 
I still say he was getting ZERO help from his back line.

If I were in the original conversation I would have agreed with Verc just because Vokoun played in Nashville. :)
Once Dunham moved on, Vokoun was the Preds.
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I didn't argue that it's to facilitate misdirection in the least. It's not to eventually spring something later. It's a part of the option on every play to either run where linebackers vacate or give room for the QB to option the DE alone rather than the end, LB and S. It's not comparable to volume shots on goal based upon the law of percentages. The option play tactically forces a couple of defenders to make a decision and forces the offense to be better or quicker decision makers. It's a skill and execution thing, not a % thing.
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Uh, I know what an option play is. It was probably a strained analogy on my part; I meant that an option offense is playing percentages in a high level, gameplan sort of sense, not in a tactical, within-the-play sense. Paul Johnson knows on Friday that Josh Nesbitt is going to choose to keep the ball and plow straight ahead 20-25 times the next day, and he knows that almost every time it's only going to be a 2-3 yard gain. Yet he lets him do it anyway, partially because he knows that a couple of times Nesbitt's going to gain considerably more. Obviously each individual play then comes down to execution rather than percentages -- but then again, so does getting the puck in the net during a scramble in front of the crease. Every hockey fan knows that there are some forwards who seem snakebitten, since they can't ever do anything but whack it into the goalie's gut or the side of the net, and there are other guys who seem to have a preternatural ability to always dig it out and flip it into the net.

Anyway, hockey annoys you and that's fine. Basketball annoys the hell out of me and yet I watch it all the time anyway.
 

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