Women's Hockey Gold Medal Round (Spam this shit)

[Smitty-48]

Oh man, they just showed a clip of Emma Miskew sitting in the crowd, hair down and full makeup, she is indeed a qt.

[Smitty-48]

Hey, you know what? Is it February 22nd? This is literally the 38th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Pretty sure it is at least.

[Smitty-48]

A dark day in the history of Soviet Red Army, that aches as much as Nagano actually.

[StCapps]

Hey, you know what? Is it February 22nd? This is literally the 38th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Pretty sure it is at least.

Correct, no wonder America won, they had the Miracle on Ice ju-ju working for them. Don't play America at Winter Olympics on February 22, the Soviets know.

[Smitty-48]

I like the Team USA hockey chicks better anyways, they wear makeup and get their hair did.

Team Canada looks like a buncha bull dykes. Hasn't been a hottie on Team Canada since Cassie Campbell retired.

[Smitty-48]

You know why Red Army lost to the Americans at the MOI? Viktor Tikhonov. I mean, yeah, the Soviets had a bad day, but Tikhonov was a KGB ratfuck weasel, he treated them like shit, that was the third year of Tikhonov, they had won the last Olympics in 76', Tikhonov weasels himself in with the KGB connects and takes over in 77', by 1980, morale was low, they were getting real sick of him by then.

Sometimes I wonder if they sandbagged, just to spite him.

[Smitty-48]

Bear in mind, Red Army was one team, it wasn't a thrown together team, they were an integrated unit which played together all the time, every practice and game, for years on end, that's what made them so great, but they also lived in a KGB hockey gulag, we don't call them Red Army for nothing, so Tikhonov was like the prison camp commander, in Soviet Hockeyville.

[Smitty-48]

To wit, he could fuck with their lives, he could fuck with their wives, he could make their work a detention barracks, cut off from their families, and often did.

And they were punished for losing that game, make no mistake. But like I say, sometimes I think it was a barracks room revolt.

[Smitty-48]

And when they lost to Canada in 87'?

If you have the video, watch the last two minutes, after Mario scores, Tikhonov is going up and down the bench and practically slapping them in the faces, he's publicly humiliating them, he's up in their grills chewing them out, and what he's basically saying is "you and your family is going to be suffering for this".

You watch the Soviets coming out in the last two minutes, going at Canada with a desperate ferocity, very un-Soviet like, they're not playing their game, they're taking runs at the Canadians, just hurling themselves into body checks, because they already kmow, shit is coming down for this.

They were supposed to win that tournament, as far as Moscow was concerned, that was a must win, losing would have been "unacceptable" at their end, bet dat.

They played hard in that tournament, as hard as I've ever seen them play, the Soviet Union was rickety, Moscow wanted a PR victory, "beat Gretzky and Lemieux", so they were under a mountain of pressure there.