OLYMPICS IN TORINO -Who will take gold in Icehockey ???

[69bananabeast]

The real reason hetero men watch the Olypmics...and it ain't hockey:

Neal

who is that?

and hockey's a sport? 

[hemihead]

Hockey is more of a sport than Golf.And is much more manly. 

[Geordie]

Hey BanaBeast,

How come you don't believe hockey is a sport? Have you ever tried it? Just wondering why you don't think it's a sport when you have to be able to skate, handle a puck and be in excellent cardiovascular shape to play? Let us know.

[derailed]

Can somone tell me what the name of that sport is where they send those stones as they call them down the ice and try to get them into the circles and knock the other team members out. They sweep the ice with a brush in front of it as its sliding along to control the speed of it.

[Shakey]

Can somone tell me what the name of that sport is where they send those stones as they call them down the ice and try to get them into the circles and knock the other team members out. They sweep the ice with a brush in front of it as its sliding along to control the speed of it.

Curling.  A very popular sport in the Nordic countries.

[4402tuff4u]

I say the Ruskies will take it.  Hey! is that poor girl stuck in the ice?

[Shakey]

The real reason hetero men watch the Olypmics...and it ain't hockey:

Neal

who is that?

and hockey's a sport? 

There is a fellow here in Canada, Don Cherry, he used to coach the Boston Bruins back in the '70's and is now an analyst on Hockey Night in Canada, kinda like John Madden in the NFL.

One his favourite rants usually in his loud and boisterous voice:

"Basketball - a guy gets a slap on the wrist and they call a foul?  C'mon!"

This is usually followed by a video montage of some of the great body checks from the week in hockey.

[nh_mopar_fan]

Grapes is a real character.

[Mefirst]

Can someone tell me what the name of that sport is where they send those stones as they call them down the ice and try to get them into the circles and knock the other team members out. They sweep the ice with a brush in front of it as its sliding along to control the speed of it.

Curling. A very popular sport in the Nordic countries.

-F..K No!! Curling is a dorky sport, kinda like Golf, invented by the Scottish.. 99.9% of the Scandinavians don't understand anything about it, its just stupid.. The only sport that makes sense, that has it´s roots from the United Kingdom is Soccer, the rest is just something stupid that can only be invented my inbreed aristocracy stuck for to long on an island...

By the way, the Russians are kicking the Swedes ass in hockey right now. 2;nd period, Russia 3 - Sweden 0

[4402tuff4u]

That's what I thought they did with old torque converters when I was a little kid - use them for the ice curling sport. I wonder how the sweepers train for the ice curling sport.....

[Shakey]

That's what I thought they did with old torque converters when I was a little kid - use them for the ice curling sport. I wonder how the sweepers train for the ice curling sport.....

That is why the women are so good at it!

[Neal_J]

Her name is Sasha Cohen but I prefer to think of her as a "Fun Date".

GRRRRRRRRR

Neal

[69bananabeast]

Hey BanaBeast,

How come you don't believe hockey is a sport? Have you ever tried it? Just wondering why you don't think it's a sport when you have to be able to skate, handle a puck and be in excellent cardiovascular shape to play? Let us know.

nah I was jk .  Played Roller Hockey back in the day . Us Texans hate the friggin cold , so hockey's out.

[Geordie]

Thought so Bananabeast... You don't ever watch any of the minor pro teams in Texas? Like the icebats? lol.

[69bananabeast]

No I went to an Iguanas game (san antonio ) a few years back .  and I thikn they fell apart .   Now there's a team I believe called the Rampage or something of the sort.

[hemihead]

Canada just got overthrown by Switerland 2-0 !  The world is off its axis!   

[Shakey]

Can someone tell me what the name of that sport is where they send those stones as they call them down the ice and try to get them into the circles and knock the other team members out. They sweep the ice with a brush in front of it as its sliding along to control the speed of it.

Curling. A very popular sport in the Nordic countries.

-F..K No!! Curling is a dorky sport, kinda like Golf, invented by the Scottish.. 99.9% of the Scandinavians don't understand anything about it, its just stupid.. The only sport that makes sense, that has it´s roots from the United Kingdom is Soccer, the rest is just something stupid that can only be invented my inbreed aristocracy stuck for to long on an island...

By the way, the Russians are kicking the Swedes ass in hockey right now. 2;nd period, Russia 3 - Sweden 0

It seems to be going pretty good for the Nordic countries..

Winter Olympics curling results on Sunday:
Men
Round Robin
Norway 9 New Zealand 6
Germany 7 Sweden 5
Finland 7 Italy 4
USA 9 Great Britain 8

Winter Olympics curling results on Saturday:
Women
Round Robin
Great Britain 9 Italy 5
Switzerland 7 Russia 4
Sweden 10 Denmark 5
Japan 5 Canada 2
USA 11 Italy 3
Norway 8 Great Britain 4
Sweden 8 Japan 7

Winter Olympics curling results on Saturday:
Men
Round Robin
USA 8 Germany 5
Italy 7 Canada 6
Great Britain 6 Switzerland 5
Finland 7 Norway 3

Finland is 5 & 2, in second place overall.

[hemihead]

I like to watch curling, it soothes me and makes me sleep.And the USA women curlers are cute. 

[Shakey]

So the Canadians get sent home with no hardware.  I met my buddies to watch the game yesterday afternoon in downtown Toronto.  It is too bad that they lost as now I have no excuse to leave the office early Friday to watch the game.   

[hemihead]

Yep, Canada and USA going home empty handed.But my man Malkin is still in it.
It will go down to Russia and Czech Republic.

[BrianShaughnessy]

OK... I just read the online and the Sasha chick fell twice and took silver,  the russian chick fell and got 3rd and some japanese girl got gold.   The only things that the olympics are good for is over... no need to show it anymore.

Can they just cancel the rest of the tv coverage and put Earl back on tonight?   

[h76]

In  Europe and Canada they treat ice hockey like we treat pro football,baseball, and basketball. People in the U.S. consider hockey the fifth most important sport behind-1)football2)baseball3)basketball4)NASCAR5)NHL. So don't expect people to give too great of an opinion of whether Sweden will beat either Finland/Russia in the gold medal game?
My 2 cents-Finland is on a roll.

[golden73]

I saw a poll of the popularity of sports... ice hockey was #32 I believe.... just before water polo

Nobody cares about the winter olympics! But the summer olympics is a different story...

[Shakey]

I saw a poll of the popularity of sports... ice hockey was #32 I believe.... just before water polo

Nobody cares about the winter olympics! But the summer olympics is a different story...

I didn't even think hockey ranked as high as 32nd in the United States.  I thought I had heard 80th or something... 

Seriuosly, I know it is not very popular in the US.

[h76]

To get young people in the U.S. into hockey, you need a good support structure. How many high schools out there do you know of have active hockey conferences or leagues. Football,baseball, and basketball fields/courts can be found anywhere out there. But isn't ironic that all/most of these hockey players make a very generous living in the NHL, which is predomanantly consisting of teams in the U.S, with the exception of some Canadian teams. Maybe it's just me, the reason I have a hard time getting into hockey is that a lot of the premier players are not from the U.S. I can watch football and know who this guy is, rather than watch an NHL game and the best player on the ice is from some place in Europe I never heard of.  Don't get me wrong, these guys are great, but I ain't dropping everything to watch them as if it was a Green Bay/Minnesota football game.