Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics thread

#551
#551
JTrainDavis said:
correct you were, but who'd have expected Mikka to lay a freaking egg like that.
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Yeah, I was congratulating myself sarcastically. I never dreamed Kiprusoff would wet the bed like that. Gave up the first idiot goal and then collapsed.
 
#552
#552
BigPapaVol said:
Once Dunham moved on, Vokoun was the Preds.
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Those in the organization as well as fans who were unlucky enough to meet him were glad he was gone when it was said and done. He was a prick of monumental proportions.

Vokoun was a pretty good goal tender and he would make some outstanding saves but my biggest knock on him was that he always gave up easy goals even when the defensemen were doing their job.
 
#553
#553
KB5252 said:
Those in the organization as well as fans who were unlucky enough to meet him were glad he was gone when it was said and done. He was a prick of monumental proportions.

Vokoun was a pretty good goal tender and he would make some outstanding saves but my biggest knock on him was that he always gave up easy goals even when the defensemen were doing their job.
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Tomas may be a jerk, and Tiger is a philanderer... doesn't change how they perform at their sport.

I guess that's why the second paragraph is there, eh?
 
#554
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Cant believe that we pwned Finland like that. I have never seen a Finnish team have such a mental lapse in the first period. I hope our luck continues, but a second time around against Canada, we might not get phenomenal goal tending like the first game.
 
#555
#555
Vercingetorix said:
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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I don't hate hockey. I love it. The skill on display is extreme, to say the least. Hand eye coord in spades to go with size and speed is phenomenal. I watch it regularly and go to live games any thine I'm in a town where live hockey is being played. That's part if what frustrates me, lesser skilled teams win far more than they should. I still enjoy it. Spent a year of my life as roommate with our hockey captain and even watched relatively weak hockey live for a couple of seasons.

I don't intend to disparage the game, just describing that I hate that scrubs can play with the elite at times.

Finally, I wasn't trying to be any more condescending about the option than you are hockey. From what you said, I gathered that you think the belly is a called play, which it rarely is.
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#559
#559
BigPapaVol said:
Finally, I wasn't trying to be any more condescending about the option than you are hockey.
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When you lumped it in with soccer, I assumed you weren't a fan. I enjoy both, but for vastly different reasons. For two such structurally similar sports, they really couldn't be more different.

From what you said, I gathered that you think the belly is a called play, which it rarely is.
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I drank a crapton of high-gravity beer at the pub last night before I came home and posted. You're supposed to know what I meant, not what I said. Duh.
 
#560
#560
BigPapaVol said:
Was a crap DQ. Dude fell down against the push. Had he been pushed, the fall would have gone the other direction.
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vol_in_il said:
yea
that sucked, he had a hand on him, but don't think that's what caused him to fall
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I agree the DQ was crap but he was getting smoked, without the fall he doesn't get to the podium anyway.
 
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#561
Vercingetorix said:
When you lumped it in with soccer, I assumed you weren't a fan. I enjoy both, but for vastly different reasons. For two such structurally similar sports, they really couldn't be more different.



I drank a crapton of high-gravity beer at the pub last night before I came home and posted. You're supposed to know what I meant, not what I said. Duh.
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And I shouldn't have lumped soccer in. I did because the rarity of scores lends to crap results too, but the skill levels ad physicality of the sports are very different. The hand eye coordination on display in hockey is astounding. My roommate could do crap with his bevy of sticks that was insane.
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BigPapaVol said:
I don't hate hockey. I love it. The skill on display is extreme, to say the least. Hand eye coord in spades to go with size and speed is phenomenal. I watch it regularly and go to live games any thine I'm in a town where live hockey is being played. That's part if what frustrates me, lesser skilled teams win far more than they should. I still enjoy it. Spent a year of my life as roommate with our hockey captain and even watched relatively weak hockey live for a couple of seasons.

I don't intend to disparage the game, just describing that I hate that scrubs can play with the elite at times.

Finally, I wasn't trying to be any more condescending about the option than you are hockey. From what you said, I gathered that you think the belly is a called play, which it rarely is.
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wasn't Sheridan was it
 
#563
#563
Demitra missed a wide open net with 10 seconds left that would have tied it for Slovakia. Wow. He's going to be drinking tonight.
 
#565
#565
Vercingetorix said:
Demitra missed a wide open net with 10 seconds left that would have tied it for Slovakia. Wow. He's going to be drinking tonight.
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He'll never forget that open net. The Slovaks have been darlings here, but they have some serious horses.
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#566
#566
Canada with 10 golds now... not bad for a country that didn't have one at all in the '88 games they hosted.

USA 4-man sled 1 in the lead after two heats... by nearly half a second. Only a wreck will keep them off the podium.

Still got a couple of short track medals tonight. Women's 1000m, and men's relay. Sucks that Ohno was DQ'd... but my first reaction was that he pushed the Canadian and would be. After the replays I could see that his hand came off the guy a second before his skate went out from under him and he fell. Just part of that sport though.
 
#573
#573
BigPapaVol said:
Was a crap DQ. Dude fell down against the push. Had he been pushed, the fall would have gone the other direction.
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Agreed. I enjoyed hearing him blast the Canadian official in the interview afterwards. Basically said that the official called the DQ because the guy that fell was Canadian.
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#574
utvol0427 said:
Agreed. I enjoyed hearing him blast the Canadian official in the interview afterwards. Basically said that the official called the DQ because the guy that fell was Canadian.
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Yeah. I thought it was pretty cool that he spoke his mind like that.

I agree that the DQ was BS.
 
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