2014 Winter Olympics (Beware, no spoiler tags)

[kujay]

Keith, Sharp and Toews on the Canada team. No Crawford.

 

Or Seabrook. Mike Smith over Crow is a bite. But Crow's injury didn't help.

[Banedon]

Keith, Sharp and Toews on the Canada team. No Crawford.

 

Or Seabrook. Mike Smith over Crow is a bite. But Crow's injury didn't help.

 

For some reason Seabrook doesn't get nearly the love he ought to.

[SpongeWorthy]

Doesn't making Team Canada mean you're one of the very best players in the world? I thought Sharp wasn't on that level or is it more nuanced than that?

[kujay]

Doesn't making Team Canada mean you're one of the very best players in the world? I thought Sharp wasn't on that level or is it more nuanced than that?

 

Couple things. First I think we take him for granted since he's the 4th or 5th biggest name on the roster. He would be the franchise player for a handful of teams.

 

Also, he's just really hot right now. 25 goals, 46 points, +22 in 45 games. Unreal. Yes he's playing with top-flight talent, but he will be playing with the same level or better talent at the Olympics.

 

So overall I think you might say Giroux (until recently) or Neal are better players, but right now Sharp was the better choice for this team.

[Banedon]

Doesn't making Team Canada mean you're one of the very best players in the world? I thought Sharp wasn't on that level or is it more nuanced than that?

 

Couple things. First I think we take him for granted since he's the 4th or 5th biggest name on the roster. He would be the franchise player for a handful of teams.

 

Also, he's just really hot right now. 25 goals, 46 points, +22 in 45 games. Unreal. Yes he's playing with top-flight talent, but he will be playing with the same level or better talent at the Olympics.

 

So overall I think you might say Giroux (until recently) or Neal are better players, but right now Sharp was the better choice for this team.

 

Even people that were screaming about Giroux or Martin St Louis being left off weren't complaining about Sharp making the team. Chris Kunitz seems to be the one that people are focusing on as undeserving.

[Guest]

Which Hawks made other olympic teams?

[Banedon]

Canada

Jonathan Toews

Patrick Sharp

Duncan Keith

 

Slovakia

Marian Hossa

Michal Handzus

 

Sweden

Johnny Oduya

Niklas Hjalmarsson

Marcus Kruger

 

Czech Republic

Michal Rozsival

 

US

Patrick Kane

 

Also, not a Hawk anymore, but Michael Frolik is on the Czech team.

[Guest]

Canada

Jonathan Toews

Patrick Sharp

Duncan Keith

 

Slovakia

Marian Hossa

Michal Handzus

 

Sweden

Johnny Oduya

Niklas Hjalmarsson

Marcus Kruger

 

Czech Republic

Michal Rozsival

 

US

Patrick Kane

And Saad sounds like he has a good chance to make it with any injuries to US forwards.

[kujay]

Yeah the now-infamous Burnside article made it sound like he was the last man cut.

[kujay]

Doesn't making Team Canada mean you're one of the very best players in the world? I thought Sharp wasn't on that level or is it more nuanced than that?

 

Couple things. First I think we take him for granted since he's the 4th or 5th biggest name on the roster. He would be the franchise player for a handful of teams.

 

Also, he's just really hot right now. 25 goals, 46 points, +22 in 45 games. Unreal. Yes he's playing with top-flight talent, but he will be playing with the same level or better talent at the Olympics.

 

So overall I think you might say Giroux (until recently) or Neal are better players, but right now Sharp was the better choice for this team.

 

Even people that were screaming about Giroux or Martin St Louis being left off weren't complaining about Sharp making the team. Chris Kunitz seems to be the one that people are focusing on as undeserving.

 

I'm pretty surprised St. Louis didn't make it, especially with Stevie Y. in charge. That's some cold-blooded [expletive].

[minnesotacubsfan]

They need to adopt the old soviet sweaters

 

Oh hell yea those were classic

[Cubswin11]

The US Women's Hockey team has lost twice, in 4 separate games, to High School Boys teams in exhibition games leading up to the Olympics

 

http://nesn.com/2014/01/u-s-womens-olympic-hockey-team-preparing-for-sochi-games-by-playing-boys-high-school-teams-in-new-england/

[jersey cubs fan]

The US Women's Hockey team has lost twice, in 4 separate games, to High School Boys teams in exhibition games leading up to the Olympics

 

http://nesn.com/2014/01/u-s-womens-olympic-hockey-team-preparing-for-sochi-games-by-playing-boys-high-school-teams-in-new-england/

 

that's pretty cool.

 

I'm going to try and get my daughter to like the women's team next month.

 

She's very princessy but on Sunday she said, "Dad, can I watch football with you?" and it was the proudest moment of my life.

[Guest]

The US Women's Hockey team has lost twice, in 4 separate games, to High School Boys teams in exhibition games leading up to the Olympics

 

http://nesn.com/2014/01/u-s-womens-olympic-hockey-team-preparing-for-sochi-games-by-playing-boys-high-school-teams-in-new-england/

 

that's pretty cool.

 

I'm going to try and get my daughter to like the women's team next month.

 

She's very princessy but on Sunday she said, "Dad, can I watch football with you?" and it was the proudest moment of my life.

At my son's hockey practice yesterday, my daughter turns to me and says "I want to play hockey, not figure skate."

[jersey cubs fan]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ioc-s-mario-pescante-slams-u-s-for-gay-athletes-in-sochi-1.2498901

 

Oh those progressive Europeans.

 

A senior Italian IOC member criticized the United States on Wednesday for including openly gay athletes in its official delegation for next month's Sochi Olympics.

 

"It's absurd that a country like that sends four lesbians to Russia just to demonstrate that in their country gay rights have (been established)," Mario Pescante said at an Italian Olympic Committee meeting in Milan on Wednesday, in comments widely reported by Italian media. "The games should not be an occasion and a stage to promote rights that sports supports daily."

 

"We've seen boycotts, concerns over Aborigine rights in Australia, the Tibet issue in China. It's enough already," Pescante told The AP. "There are always going to be issues wherever the games are held, but the best way to combat these issues is by letting the games unfold and sending thousands of journalists to these places to report on what is going on there."

[biittner77]

When did HCCF move to Italy?

[WrigleyField 22]

But what if sending four lesbians causes four more journalists to follow just to report on them? Check mate!

[Guest]

It's like Obama dispatched a delegation of gay jedis to negotiate with the hated trade federation. I love it.

[shnsajax]

The 30 by 30 with Kerrigan and Harding is crazy to revisit. Harding doesn't exactly come off looking good in interviews today.

[jersey cubs fan]

The 30 by 30 with Kerrigan and Harding is crazy to revisit. Harding doesn't exactly come off looking good in interviews today.

 

Harding has never looked good, in interviews or otherwise, today, or long ago.

[biittner77]

I wonder what she charges for an interview. Undoubtedly she needs money. Otherwise, why do this interview?

[jersey cubs fan]

I wonder what she charges for an interview. Undoubtedly she needs money. Otherwise, why do this interview?

 

Hopes of becoming relevant again and maybe appear on some reality show.

[Guest]

I wonder what she charges for an interview. Undoubtedly she needs money. Otherwise, why do this interview?

 

Hopes of becoming relevant again and maybe appear on some reality show.

She's a commenter on world's most outrageous something or other.

[Derwood]

Norway wins the Olympics:

 

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/01/cancel-the-olympics-because-norways-curling-team-has-already-won/

[biittner77]

The NHL should just go ahead and cancel all the games between now and the Olympics. It's like the last day before Christmas break at school for most of the good teams.

 

Or maybe they could just skip right to the shoout out, not that it would help the Hawks much but it would keep me from being tempted to watch some bad hockey games late at night.