You Will Believe That Men Can Cry: Canada's Hockey Team Wins Gold

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The Beauty of Championship Games like this is, that no matter who won or lost in this game, it gives a big boost to the Game itself.  We saw players that play together face off aganst each other, (Ortpik and Cosby)  And Players that face off normally come together for the love of one’s country and the love of the game. And for two week it was in the Main international sporting event known as the Olympic Games. 

Yes they will be talking about this one for a longtime to come, unless we have another one like in four years.

Congats to Team Canada on this win, for your National Game is once more.. Yours..

Now on to the NHL, and the pursue of Lord Stanley’s Cup.

That was a fantastic game — worthy of being called a "Gold Medal" game!

As far as i see it. It ended 1 win each and a 7-6 goal advantage for USA. Nothing was settled here..Canada had decisive home ice advantage and $75 mil more in salary than USA. Enjoy your weak Gold metal. OH by the way, Ice bowling or curling is not a sport. go to any bowling alley on a friday night and see the same people. 

LakerGator.  The only thing that was settled is that we have a gold medal in mens hockey and you don’t…Curling requires too much mental energy for americans it seems…too much thinking involved…

The Canadian players are paid more because they are better…

Better huh..7-6 in goals..scoreboard…Curling and mental energy in one sentence….you are pathetic…

we  breed better agents too chump.

Laker——WAH WAH WAH

LakerGator…Don’t be jealous

Since when does a scoreboard cross two games.  You dont lose a 7 game series in hockey if your team loses in goals over all…

look as much as the nhl onwers hate it, in 4 years the nhl will have players in soshi, why, becuase ovechkin and the russians will want reevnge, and if they beat a b-team canada team, they won’t be happy, they want the a-team, and besides look at the us team, they were the youngest team, with the one vet being drury, playing in his 3rd olympics, and unfournately because of the time difference between soshi and the east coast, 4 years from now, most of these games will be on tape delay, and even if espn gets them, these events will be happening in the middle of the night, so you mght show them live, but you’ll still have to rebroadcast them, becuase msot people will be asleep

So answer this for me LakerGator:

Using the NFL as an example, if the Vikings beat the Packers twice in the regular season but then the Packers beat the Vikings in the NFC final, but the Vikes have scored more total points in the three games, which team advances to the Superbowl? By your reasoning it would be the Vikings since they have more wins and points in the 3 games. However, we all know it’s the Pack that would move on.

Same thing in the Olympic hockey tournament.

Maybe you should try understand how this type of tournament works before putting your stupidity on display for all the world to see.

1 team won when they had to… the other didnt… simple. comparing a prelim game to the gold medal game is something someone who has never played competitive sports would do…

Great game! Great Tournamnet! Congrats to our neighbors up north. You desreved it. And while our players are looking up to you they are also holding thier heads high, as they should. The USA team played awesome and fell just a bit short.

To be honest, i really don’t care about hockey, Obviously i am not the only one since the United states hockey league is by far the worst ,watched,supported league their is. This euphoria over hockey will subside like it always does, in fact Canada should just thank us for letting them participate since you only make up 20% of the teams in "our" league. I need to go now and try and find a hockey game on TV, i guess it is on the World fishing network or was it the Food Network..     

Oh Gator,

I usually do not respond to such drivel but could not resist. Yea, Canada only has 6 teams in the league and 55% of the players in the NHL are Canadian.  So I guess it is a good thing you "let" us participate. Idiot.

Good game by the US – Miller’s performance brought back haunted memories of Mike Richter in "96". Needless to say I will sleep better after last night’s result. Well deserved MVP of the tournament.   

Thanks for the Gold Team Canada and a goal that will be long remembered Crosby.

- A hockey fan

Congrats are in order for the victory…somebody had to win.

 Obviously I believe the Yanks played more inspiring hockey, as evidenced by the mens and womans teams not piling on in lopsideded victories. Also the Yanks played as a team, Canada an all-star show, mostly.

I just wish the 20 minute overtime was played 5 on 5. The game is meant to be played 5 on 5 not 4/4.

But, if it went to a shootout I think there would have been more complaining ( from either losing side), so enjoy the moment.

picc off acc.  it was pretty inspiring for both countries you leatherman.

The American public that was in Vancouver handled the defeat with grace. They celebrated not only USA’s silver, but also Canada’s gold. Yes, they praised more than the USA! Amazing, huh? These are Americans that know there is a world outside of the USA, and the Americans that know they aren’t the centre of the universe. Canada would love to have those people over again some day.

LakerGator, you should stay in the USA…it seems like that’s all you know about anyway.

The Game was great, it had an NHL Stanley Cup feel to it. On D canada clogged the middle and fed off the turnovers by the USA…I think all the Canadians goals were off USA turnovers. But USA didn’t quit and was very proud of them this whole tournament, People thought the Bronze or 4th place would be lucky for them so Great Job USA.

Pretty good read Andy. Here are some additional thoughts that I enjoyed on the game: http://bit.ly/bwJNdL

This was a perfect ending to these olympic games after a tragic beginning.  Although I wanted team USA to win the gold, as a Peguin fan, I’m not upset with the outcome.  The "Kid" came through and the Peguins have two golds and a silver.  Can anyone tell me,  did any other NHL team win more medals. 

where is that douchebag that wrote the article….. ‘at least you have ice dancing, Canadians’….LOOKS GOOD ON U, WOOOOOOOCANADA!!!!

Milbury said before the game that there were maybe 3 US players who would have made the Canadian roster, yet the teams were almost a dead-even matchup through two games. That tells me the US likely had the edge in coaching, maybe 2nd only to the Swiss as a team that made the most out of what it had.

I find it interesting that ‘LakerGator’ states he doesnt even like hockey yet he felt obliged to make three riduculous and uninformed comments. Come back when you learn a thing or two about hockey. As a fellow American your comments are embarrasing.

After some research I found that Anaheim and San Jose each had five medal winners and Chicago and New Jersey each had four.  The LA Kings also had three medal winners.  Looks like the Pacific Division may be represented in the Cup finals this year.

Although I am an American, I am happy for Canada.  I’m happy because all the bad luck stuff happening at the start of the Olympics.  Canada did a great job doing the Olympics and Vancouver looked awesome. 

No GUYS GONE WILD. My girl friend was waiting the the guys to rip off their tops. She was mad they did not do more than the girls. What wimps! She said it was a waste of her time.