Olympic Excitement

[Sheilbh]

Wonderful fun.  Well done Canada.  COMMONWEALTH HO!

Are the brit papers still bitching?

  Almost certainly.  It's what they do.  Anyway it's more to do with how inevitably shit they think 2012 will be (or want it to be) than anything to do with Vancouver

[Admiral Yi]

Congrats, eh.

Is that a typical ratio of French to non-French players on a national team?

[garbon]

Curling.

Curling.

[Jacob]

Oh yeah!

Well played team USA, great game.

I'm going for a walk to enjoy the Vancouver post victory ambience.

[C.C.R.]

Curling.

Curling.

Fucking curling.  There's a curling rink four or five towns over that I'm going to have to start going to visit in order to feed the Curling Monkey that this Olympics put on my back...

[C.C.R.]

I've been meaning to ask for the last few days & just haven't had a chance:  What kind of ink has Toews been getting in The Great White North for his Olympic play?  Because the Canadian games have been on almost exclusively in Prime Time I got to watch most of their play, and I was seeing Toews have a fucking MONSTER tournament for Canada.  I mean yeah, sure, as a Blackhawks fan I'm already a Toews fan, but from my living room it seemed like he did an awesome job defensively & especially killing penalties.  His point production (including his goal today) was more like the icing on the cake as opposed to the cake itself.  Or something...

[viper37]

Congrats, eh.

Is that a typical ratio of French to non-French players on a national team?

Counting Dan Boyle (Franco-Ontarian) and Jonhattan Toews (Franco-Manitoban), I think there were a little more French players this time.  That would be 8 out of 22.  But Fleury didn't play a single game.  Would have put him instead of Brodeur has 2nd goalie, had it been my choice.

Anyway, they won, so nobody's asking any questions

[Neil]

I'm going for a walk to enjoy the Vancouver post victory ambience.

I would imagine they'll start burning cop cars any minute.

[viper37]

I've been meaning to ask for the last few days & just haven't had a chance:  What kind of ink has Toews been getting in The Great White North for his Olympic play?

Ink, I don't really know... but there's been a lot of positive comments on TV about him.  One of my friend doubted he had his place in this tournament, because of his young age, and he had to recant his statement.  Great player

It will be nice to see Chicago-Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cups final this year

[Neil]

I've been meaning to ask for the last few days & just haven't had a chance:  What kind of ink has Toews been getting in The Great White North for his Olympic play?  Because the Canadian games have been on almost exclusively in Prime Time I got to watch most of their play, and I was seeing Toews have a fucking MONSTER tournament for Canada.  I mean yeah, sure, as a Blackhawks fan I'm already a Toews fan, but from my living room it seemed like he did an awesome job defensively & especially killing penalties.  His point production (including his goal today) was more like the icing on the cake as opposed to the cake itself.  Or something...

Toews has been widely praised as one of the top players at the tournament.  Him and Nash and Doughty have been showered in praise.  Iginla has done well too.

[Neil]

It seems to me that adversity can help breed success, and so a lot of quality players are coming out of shitholes like the Maritimes, Manitoba and western Ontario.

[Ed Anger]

Toews has been widely praised as one of the top players at the tournament.  Him and Nash and Doughty have been showered in praise.  Iginla has done well too.

I really liked Nash's 'hit everybody' type of play.

[C.C.R.]

Toews has been widely praised as one of the top players at the tournament.  Him and Nash and Doughty have been showered in praise.  Iginla has done well too.

As they all should be.  Eddie Olczyk (color commentator for NBC+Versus+Chicago Blackhawks) is fond of repeating that it's important for players to Understand their role on their team & Execute, and the names that you mention above (IMO) all fired with both of those barrels in this tournament...

[Admiral Yi]

Counting Dan Boyle (Franco-Ontarian) and Jonhattan Toews (Franco-Manitoban), I think there were a little more French players this time.  That would be 8 out of 22.  But Fleury didn't play a single game.  Would have put him instead of Brodeur has 2nd goalie, had it been my choice.

Anyway, they won, so nobody's asking any questions

Dan Boyle is Franco?  :scratches head:

[Neil]

Counting Dan Boyle (Franco-Ontarian) and Jonhattan Toews (Franco-Manitoban), I think there were a little more French players this time.  That would be 8 out of 22.  But Fleury didn't play a single game.  Would have put him instead of Brodeur has 2nd goalie, had it been my choice.

Anyway, they won, so nobody's asking any questions

Dan Boyle is Franco?  :scratches head:

It's pronounced 'Bwa-lai'.