IGT 02/28, USA vs CAN for all gold marbles

[seawolf17]

Ovie get platinum medal, yes?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The NHL's best player, ya rube. (Alex Ovechkin)

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Bullet-bullet. A duel of cool.

[seawolf17]

The NHL's best player, ya rube. (Alex Ovechkin)[/quote:srgeeyxt]
Eh, they wear helmets. I can barely identify the players on the Flyers, never mind all the others. (I'm a very minor hockey fan.)

[Guest Kong76]

I do confess that I will now slip into not really giving a crap
about hockey until something else big is on the horizon.

Braves on Wednesday!

[metirish]

"Do you realize what this game has done for hockey?"
"This is just what hockey needed"
" A great advertisement for the NHL"


I've heard all of these and more since the game yesterday, Ed Olczyk was beside himself with excitement about this one game and I guess how it will do wonders for the NHL. Except I don't think the NHL will learn any lessons from the Olympics. Tune in to Versus tonight if you have it for the Red Wings at the Avalanche and you'll see a good game but not the same game we saw yesterday. I didn't realize this but it makes sense thinking back but the game yesterday had only 4 penalty minutes and of course it didn't have a TV ad break every stoppage of play. It didn't have goons whose only purpose is to fight or to stop the skill players from playing. None of that will change because of the Gold medal game . I would like if it did but I can't see it. The NHL doesn't get a dime from NBC for it's TV rights but they share the ad money...so the more ads during a game the more money.

I watch a fair bit of hockey and the regular season for the most part I find unwatchable , the playoffs though feature a better game without the constant penalties and there is lots of brilliant hockey played. In the playoffs no one wants to give away needless penalties and the refs let the play flow too .

Not saying I have answers here but it would be nice to see the NHL try and improve the regular season .

[MFS62]

Great game.

Ya fuckin' maple-suckin' bear-rapists.[/quote:1l3eyllt]

You forgot "baby-harp-seal-clubbin'"

Later

[metirish]

This is one thing I dislike about the NHL


Matt Cooke takes Marc Savard to the cleaners with a cheap-shot.Cooke is what's known a a pest in the game, great at winding up the other team. Canada had no use for him at Vancouver.

http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2010/03/07/marc-savard-taken-off-ice-on-stretcher/?synd=fanhouse