Nothing but special snowflakes, here.

[StCapps]

Will a real "best of the best playing on their national teams hockey tournament" please stand up,
I repeat, Will a real "best of the best playing on their national teams hockey tourny, please stand up.
We're gonna have a problem here.


And the Canada Cup said, nothing you idiots, the Canada Cup is dead, it's locked in my basement.

[StCapps]

Oh well - was hoping this thread could be more than a hate on the Olympics thread because hockey, but whatever...

So naive.

[K@th]

Oh well - was hoping this thread could be more than a hate on the Olympics thread because hockey, but whatever...

So naive.

I suppose we could start a thread for each sport... but I imagine you'd both find a way to make the bobsledding thread about hockey.

[Smitty-48]

If the IOC is not interested in courting the largest hockey fan base in the world by far, by paying up for our Auston, whatevs, Big Blue Auston rolls on without them.

What, they want to court the Chinese? OK fine, but there's more hardcore hockey fans in Scarborough then there is in all of China, so good luck with that.

[Montegriffo]

To be honest with you I don't think hockey should even be in the Olympics. Same with football, tennis, golf and several other sports. An olympic gold should be the pinacle of a sport. If a world cup winners medal or a grand slam win is more important in your sport then your sport has no place in the Olympics.
In feild hockey the biggest accolade is a gold medal at the Olympics, in ice hockey it is not so the Olympics doesn't need you.

Yeah, OK, fine, I hate the Olympics anyways, it's the Adolf Hitler Memorial Sports Extravaganza, Jimmy Stewart could firebomb the Olympics into the stone age and I wouldn't shed one tear.

That being said, the biggest money maker for the Olympics, is the Americans, and if the IOC thinks they are going to get more Americans viewing the games, without the real deal Team USA NHL players, good luck to them, without muh Auston, they ain't got nothin', meanwhile, I'll be watching muh Auston play while the stupid Hitlerympics are on some other channel, and when the Leaf game is over, I'll be switching to Netflix, I ain't got no time for no Spengler Cup wannabe shit.

That's fine. If you are not a sports fan then the Olympics is not for you. If you only like watching ice hockey when certain players are involved you're not really a hockey fan either. It's OK to have a man crush, I'm not going to criticise you for that. The Olympics isn't about homoeroticism even if that is why StA watches the mens gymnastics.
The Olympics is for sports lovers so whether or not you watch it is of little significance.

[StCapps]

Oh well - was hoping this thread could be more than a hate on the Olympics thread because hockey, but whatever...

So naive.

I suppose we could start a thread for each sport... but I imagine you'd both find a way to make the bobsledding thread about hockey.

Every thread is a hockey thread, to Canadians anyway.


Gold Medal In The Face, That's Who's There. Red and White. Deal With It.
/shurgs

[Smitty-48]

That's fine. If you are not a sports fan then the Olympics is not for you. If you only like watching ice hockey when certain players are involved you're not really a hockey fan either. It's OK to have a man crush, I'm not going to criticise you for that. The Olympics isn't about homoeroticism even if that is why StA watches the mens gymnastics.
The Olympics is for sports lovers so whether or not you watch it is of little significance.

Man crush? For muh Auston? It's true love, mate, I'm not crushing on Auston, I love him with all my heart, he's so fuckin' sexy it hurts.

Aye Papi!

[Montegriffo]

Oh well - was hoping this thread could be more than a hate on the Olympics thread because hockey, but whatever...

I'm with you Kath, the Olympics is probably the finest example of the world putting aside their differences to come together and create something wonderful.
Ice hockey isn't even the best kind of hockey.

[StCapps]

Ice hockey isn't even the best kind of hockey.

Blasphemy. You only say that because your country sucks at real hockey. Learn to play real sports or shut the fuck up Britain.

[Montegriffo]

Ice hockey isn't even the best kind of hockey.

Blasphemy. You only say that because your country sucks at real hockey.

Ice hockey is to hockey what American football is to rugby.
Men in protective pads throwing themselves at each other in a show of brute force verses the skills and subtlety of real men playing a rough game without body armour to save them from ouchies.