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1 posted on 02/22/2014 10:33:33 AM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels; airborne; shove_it; Hat-Trick; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; ...

Hockey Ping!

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Canada outplayed the US yesterday and the US really didn't look like they wanted the bronze - Finland clearly did.

The NHL may say they don't want their players in the next Olympics, but the KHL will, and it will be interesting to see (if) our college kids play European pros like they did "back in the day"

2 posted on 02/22/2014 10:44:33 AM PST by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: rickmichaels

Gutless.


3 posted on 02/22/2014 10:45:28 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rickmichaels

Olympic Finnish a Bylsmal for the USA


4 posted on 02/22/2014 10:48:04 AM PST by mikrofon (NHL Bump)
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To: rickmichaels

Disappointing for sure but the Boys gave us a great show during the prelims. Amazing how the offense completely shut down the last two games though.


8 posted on 02/22/2014 10:51:28 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: rickmichaels

That’s not a win....that’s an embarrassment.

They need to be hiding their faces in shame.


9 posted on 02/22/2014 10:52:30 AM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: rickmichaels

Some of the women’s hockey was good. Very nice feminine clean cut young ladies especially Switzerland> No butch cuts. They all had long hair pulled back away from their faces.


10 posted on 02/22/2014 10:53:31 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: rickmichaels; a fool in paradise

Being fourth among 236 countries playing ice hockey is not all that bad!


11 posted on 02/22/2014 10:55:10 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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The good news is that the team won’t be getting any late night visits from the IRS.


15 posted on 02/22/2014 10:57:35 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Communism kills!!!)
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Finland has a great system for playing on the big ice surfaces. Some top tier talent as well.


20 posted on 02/22/2014 10:59:06 AM PST by wolfman
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The hell with the Olympics! We need World Series and Super Bowels in all sports where “world champions” will always be American!


22 posted on 02/22/2014 11:01:07 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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I know!

They lost in protest, so Obama’s IRS couldn’t be getting any money for the Olympic medals.

:)


30 posted on 02/22/2014 11:06:46 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: rickmichaels

Awwwwwww. I taped the game but haven’t watched it. Might not, now.

Congrats to Teemu!


38 posted on 02/22/2014 11:14:52 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: rickmichaels

I whipped the Finns...at shuffleboard. I got called for slashing.


46 posted on 02/22/2014 11:48:37 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Olympic hockey has become nothing but an expanded version of the NHL All Star game. The guys are picked, they fly to the olympics then they play......

Under the current rules, there will never again be a game such as the 1980 U.S. amateurs vs. the Russians............

It's a joke.........

59 posted on 02/22/2014 3:56:08 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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Why did the Olympics go from amateur to pro, or a mix of pro/ amateur?


76 posted on 02/23/2014 10:54:13 AM PST by Exit148
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That’s what they get for assembling a team NHL-style, instead of filling their roster with all the best American players. It’s the Olympics, you can’t have a top 6 and bottom 6. All men on the ice have to be the best. Maybe next time, they won’t make the same kind of mistake when they overlooked Kyle Okposo.


84 posted on 02/23/2014 10:38:36 PM PST by wastedyears (The Ender's Game movie was a stupendous, colossal, galactic failure to me.)
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