ChikenCarnage wrote:everyone predicted canada or russia to win gold since both the teams were stacked with talent. no matter what you say feowen, everyone has canada pegged as the favorite because it's gold or bust for them. your country lives and breathes hockey and if your hockey team, thats stacked to the gills with talent, doesn't bring home gold then ill guarantee that the majority of canadians will call these olympics an utter disappointment. probably more so than taking 7th in the last olympics.
I'll punch those Canadians in the face. We've done very well these Olympics. Considering Canada used to finish like 12th overall on medal standings and win no gold medals, I am quite happy where we stand now heh. We've hosted the Winter Olympics twice before this, and both those other times we never won a gold medal, so this was the first time we brought home Gold on home turf. I'd say there's been lots to be proud of.
As for hockey teams, the U.S keeps playing the 'we're the underdog' card, but their performance proves that they are far from being a joke of a team. They have outplayed the competition, including Canada. To say the US doesn't have talent would be a huge underestimation. They're loaded to the gills, the difference is that their players haven't earned a name for themselves yet since they're all young. Sure we have some old farts on our team, they aren't pulling the same weight as our young guns either. Most of our best players are new to Team Canada this year.
But I don't think Canadians will be upset if we lose. Silver is a nice finish, and as I said before, the US ain't taken home a gold in hockey in 30 years, regardless of how many medals they're hoarding to themselves already lol. And we beat you in the World Juniors and Women's Hockey, so I can't complain.
