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Crosby on the breakaway. 2-0

1-0 Toews.

Great pace to the game so far.

Ah good one woody. Canada has a proud history of wartime contributions that won't be diminished by your lack of knowledge in that regard. In fact during both WW1 and WW2 thousands of your countrymen joined the Canadian forces for a chance to go into battle long before the Americans officially declared war. But I've gone off topic. ;) I'll be getting up at 4am. Its going to be epic. Go Canada

Most goalies will tell you shutouts are a team stat.

Peter Forsberg has fired the first volley in the Gold medal game officiating controversy. ' It's a fukcing joke ' or words to that effect was what he said. The game is to be officiated by Canadian refs and I have to say I agree with Forsberg. If you can't have a fair situation for all teams involved at least try to have the appearance of fairness to both teams. Why can't it be U.S. N.H.L. officials if it has to be experienced N.H.L. officials ? As a Canadian I find this odd. I can understand why a Swede would be pissed.

Happy birthday Pat. Some of my best Sabres memories came from watching you. Hopefully there's many more.

What everyone seems to have forgotten in all of this talk about the women showing emotion after the game and into the medal ceremony is that this is it for the women. They have no Stanley cup to aspire to. The Gold medal is their Stanley cup. Silver or bronze is a loss. Woman can be tough as nails but they can also be vulnerable and emotional in ways men might not understand. There's no shame in crying. The U.S. women have nothing to be ashamed about. On a side note I think their coach should have called a time out when it started to go south to settle things down. Her bad.

another penalty shot for Kane

The Canadian team has possibly the best lineup of defencemen the Olympics has seen IMO. I'm sure that would translate pretty good to the N.H.L.

Here come the icegirls...nope. For the love of God Putin why can't you have some nice Russian icegirls ?

Or if it was more like the roller derby of the seventies that I so fondly remember. There's something about woman skating around an oval and elbowing each other into oblivion.

What about trying him upfront like Mr. Burns ?

I look at the money spent (51 billion) by the host country alone, the corruption of politicians, The money spent on athletes etc by other nations, and can't help but wonder if the Olympic ideal is even worth carrying on. A two week sporting event thats largely overhyped and overexposed that benefits very few individuals but indebts generations of people in the host countries. Its hard to justify. As much as I enjoy olympic hockey I could really care less if the N.H.L. goes back in Korea.

I'm with you Claude, its based on a comic series which in and of itself is fantasy so...I just want to be entertained and I have been. I'm not going to dissect the nuances of the show or its lack of realism. Its a zombie show.

Free app on my phone. sochi 2014. Since I'll be at work it'll be a mix of the radio and the app. Now if I can just get used to the 4 inch screen.

U.S. wins this one 4-1. Canadians have had a dismal 7% shooting percentage and have yet to put it all together while the U.S. has gelled. If it comes down to goaltending U.S. has the lead. With that, Go Canadeh !

I guess what it has to do with today is people on the board saying fukc Canada and Canadians because of the officiating. I was just pointing out that officiating has been much worse. As recently as 2002.

Another one everyone forgets when they throw around terrible officiating is Salt Lake City. Gold medal game between U.S. / Can. womens teams. Canada won 3-2 but not before overcoming what may have been the worst officiating ever where they were penalized what was it ? 8 times in a row. I could be wrong. Correct me if I am because there's no way one team would be penalized 8 times in a row against a host nation in a gold medal game would they ? Was the fix in on that one or what ?

My point is why temp fate ? She had been warned. Also. Do you remember the delay of game penalty in soccer against the Canadian keeper in London when the U.S. player counted the seconds off to the ref ? these things have a way of coming full circle. The keeper had been warned about holding up the game. She continued to do so and the American player put the ref in the spotlight by counting down the seconds. The ref had to make the call. I blame the Canadian keeper. Not the ref.

Thomas who ?

Yup. You're the only one. ;)

Great game. Apparently the U.S. player was warned earlier about slashing the goalie so the call was apt. Was she just daft and figured the ref wouldn't make the call ? Certainly undisciplined. Calls went both ways as they usually do.

He's done like dinner

If Tavares is recovering into next year there's no way in hell they defer to next year.