UncleRisto
Not Great, Bob!
Great, we're getting nuked.Thank you!
Proud of Finland, especially in these uncertain times with Ukraine and Russia. Huge win, not just in hockey, but in the real world.
Great, we're getting nuked.Thank you!
Proud of Finland, especially in these uncertain times with Ukraine and Russia. Huge win, not just in hockey, but in the real world.
Thank You!Congrats to the Finnish members of this board! It's been a long time coming for your Olympic goal.
Yeah, exactly. Watched a total of 0 minutes of entire Olympics this year. First time since I can't remember. Probably 1990 since I wasn't born yet.Why'd it have to be this one?
I thought Denmark's were pretty aestheticly pleasing as wellThe only not-horrible uniform set in this tourney won gold. Good for them.
Who the f*** is this.
Good for her.I can neither confirm nor deny that it’s allegedly Erna Husko.
Are you guys super into this Olympics? Just curious. I watched the opening night ceremony and I haven’t turned it on again (was so incredibly disgusted by the political messaging). I read about the Russian skater - and my heart breaks for that girl being only 15 and going through this hell. I don’t doubt that she took the enhancers but I 100% have compassion for her being so young and naive to this all (and having to bear the brunt and be the face of all this controversy - while her coach skates relatively free of criticism).
I’m just curious if you guys see these games as just awesome or super to watch? I think they’re the worst version I can ever remember. I can’t wait for them to be over with.
That's a weird take considering that all it takes is a fall or even a small slip to decide the gold or sometimes even being out of the medal round in other sports.Ratings are so bad you aren't alone. I watched none as well and I'm glad the NHL didn't go. I much more enjoy regular NHL action than a long break with a lot of really bad games. Yeah the best on best sounds good in theory but it's a total crapshoot who wins anyways with only 3 or 4 games really meaning anything. Even worse is the women's side where one game every four years means everything.
Ratings are so bad you aren't alone. I watched none as well and I'm glad the NHL didn't go. I much more enjoy regular NHL action than a long break with a lot of really bad games. Yeah the best on best sounds good in theory but it's a total crapshoot who wins anyways with only 3 or 4 games really meaning anything. Even worse is the women's side where one game every four years means everything.
That's a weird take considering that all it takes is a fall or even a small slip to decide the gold or sometimes even being out of the medal round in other sports.
But a lot of sports in the Olympics have only one chance to win as well be it in their quarter-finals, semi-finals or finals. Heck some of them only have one qualifying round and then the medal round and they also are best on best in their sport. Most of those sports are even more of a crapshoot to decide the winners than hockey. Most of them it only take a fall, slip or another competitor to bump you to take you out of the medals.It's not a weird take, just observing what is true. Best on best makes it sound like it's some sort of proof of who deserves being the best but it's hockey so once you get to the very best teams it's mostly luck who wins. Canada has had the best team every time the NHL has played and has won it only twice, once in OT. Made for great drama but ultimately it was a one game crapshoot.
Luck will be important in all but I'd like to see a World Cup format with teams at least playing a 3 game series like we have seen before to decide champions at the least, if not other levels too. If necessary start the preliminary rounds when the Stanley Cup Finals are running, players on two teams might not make it to the World Cup but I don't think they will lose their minds over it. Play it when most players are just off their season so they had a short break but aren't in preseason mode. Do it during a year when the Soccer WC or Euro tourney arent going so you get lots of eyeballs on it. That's how you get a great WC event that builds the sports of hockey. For the Olympics make it a juniors event with a limited number of veterans.
Why'd it have to be this one?
A run of the mill social media hoe.Who the f*** is this.