I have no interest in olympic hockey or the olympics

[jamsim67]

Unbelieveable Al, First off, I can't believe they waved off the 3rd Russian goal because the goal was an inch (at the most) off it's mooring. If that had happened to the USA, I would have been upset, but since it was Russia ... Rules are Rules

As for the shootout, I was expecting Kane to be in the first 3. Really surprised by the choices. Surprised even more that you can continue to send the same player out continuously.

 

[dumpstralmannow]

From the little I saw of this game, the U.S. is too slow. They would have been much better off putting Okposo and Kreider on the team instead of Wheeler and Brown. Brown just sucks this year.

 

[jamsim67]

They didn't look slow to me, the Russians just looked a hell of a lot faster. Because of that Russian speed, the Americans defense never really committed to the offensive flow of the game. They stayed back, to prevent any sort of Russian odd man rush.

 

[Stepupstepan]

I saw the first period and some of the second. I agree that Kreider and Okposo would be the better choices. Cant believe Blake freaking Wheeler is on the team over Kreider.

 

[dumpstralmannow]

If they didn't look slow to you, you must have been looking at the inside of your ass. They were painfully slow. You have to build a team based off of the game that is played. In the Olympics which I still don't care about, it's all about speed. Leaving Kreider and Okposo off in favor of Brown and Wheeler was just dumb. Hopefully this worthless crap will be over soon.

 

[BigDaddyAl1973]

Mac looked good playing the right side

 

[jamsim67]

Good comeback dump, I wouldn't expect anything less from you. Of course I never expect anything more, but that's another story. The Americans are not slow, but they are not as fast as the Russians and I'm not sure anybody is. In fact, the Russians are not only FAST, but they can score at will if given the opportunities. So, if the coach doesn't think he can challenge the Russians speed (and they couldn't), he tries to neutralize it by making sure they don't have many opportunities to use it. Which is what they did, and it worked.

Now If the Americans had tried to go up and down the ice with Russia, they would have lost (probably big) and you would have been the first on this board complaining about their style of play. You'd be calling them a bunch of dumb asses for trying to match the Russians speed, when they should have played with more of a defensive philosophy. It was a well coached game, and they won. And as for the selection process, lot's of players are worthy, but they all can't go, so get over it.

 

[mrmel29]

Great game. Can't believe freakin nbc couldn't put this game on the main channel instead of one of their backchannels so we could watch cartoons on channel 4. They suck at this. Give me back channel 7. Fun game to watch. If that russian 3rd goal that should have counted ended up fucking them in the gold medal game instead of this one would have been payback for that basketball abortion in 1972 when they had as many opportunities as they needed till they won the game. Agree with you guys that kreids and okposo should be on this team and would have upgraded them a lot. Stepan as out of shape as he is this year will be lucky to see the olympic ice and must have pictures of balysma to be on this team this year. Final 4 should be us, sweden canada and russia unless fins upset someone and should be 3 great games to look forward to. Agree Al that shootout rules make no sense and after first 3 same guy can take every shot WTF. Putin right now lining up the guy responsible for that goalpost coming off the mooring causing russia the game in front of a firing squad. Don't know about you guys but I really like the larger ice surface as it opens up the game more especially with the sizes of some of these guys today and wouldn't mind seeing the nhl adopt this.

 

[Ranger71]

Who knew Oshie was such a SO demon?

 

[panzerporter]

Another good win against Slovenia, 3-0 sweep of their bracket while Russia squeaked by Slovakia in a shootout. Agree Stepan will be a spectator hope it motivates him if it hasn't embarrassed him. Full Russia/USA game being rebroadcast today at 4:30.

 

[mrmel29]

Stepan got in today because someone was out sick or hurt. Looked painfully slow out there in his 5 minutes or so of ice time he got.

 

[mrmel29]

Bad break for US as they'll line up versus canada in semis so will have to beat both canada and either russia again or sweden for the gold. Now the conspiracy theory person in me wonders if russia lost on purpose so they would avoid canada till the finals. I know, I know, farfetched but stranger things have happened