>>>>>>>>>It's the end of the 2nd period and Team USA is up 6-0 on Finland and headed for the gold medal match.
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>>>>>>>>>C'mon, Canada bring it!
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>>>>>>>>>Note : I will take full blame if my posting this results in the jinx that leads to the Team USA's collapse in the 3rd. I wanted to get the shout out prior to logging off for the weekend.
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>>>>>>>>Time to take a stand. Canada will win 6 to 4 on sunday. And it'll be a very tight match. Sixth goal in an empty net.
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>>>>>>>4-2 US and Sydney will be pointless.
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>>>>>>Let's get it on ;-)
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>>>>>OK. I'm off by 1. It'll be 3-2 US now that it's GOING TO OVERTIME!!!
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>>>>Oh well I'll let you go with that small victory. You were closer on the score.
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>>>>Now for my victory... CANADA WON THE GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>>>;-)
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>>>I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!
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>>>Crap..I guess that won't work..
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>>One thing for sure we watched a really good game. I'll admit I was really scared after the third period. USA seemed to have the momentum. Oh well that's hockey I guess.
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>I thought the US team was done up until the last couple of minutes when all of a sudden they turned up the heat.
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>I was hoping the goal would demoralize Canada, but I think they had a chance to regroup during the break before overtime.
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>Worst for me was Crosby scoring the winner. He's treated like the messiah of hockey, and though he's a good player I get sick of the coverage.
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>Who was on the screen after the goal? Sydney. Every once in a while they'd make a mistake and pan across some other Canadian player while moving to get a closer look at Sydney. Not nearly as bad as his predecessor (Mario), but still really annoying.

I guess that could be called marketing. The problem is that there are not enough real stars so they have to concentrate on only some players. and yes that means a lot of Sydney. At least Sydney looks like a role model.

Are you also sick about the coverage on Tiger Woods?

As long as they stay on the golf course I don't mind about the coverage. He's really on top of his game but as for what's happened lately... I don't care about that stuff. I don't know if it's just an age thing but I'm beginning to be tired about a lot of medias.

To me music is crap. I'm stuck on music of 70s, 80s and early 90s. After that Booooring.

TV has too much reality crap. and they're complaining that people watch less tv to go on the internet. Yeah right. It doesn't take a genius to understand that one. On the net you watch almost everything when you're ready to watch not when enterprises decide when you should watch it.

Magazines. Why buy a magazine that is outdated when it hits the stand when you can get reliable info on the net.

Perhaps you think I'm getting way off this thread's topic... I don't think I do

Marketing is the key word here. More and more businesses are trying to convince us that the crap they're trying to sell to us is Awesome, Fantastic...

So we see a lot of Sidney and not a lot of the others because there are no others... or a few others.

Once upon a time there was Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur and many many others. Hockey was a very fun sport to watch. It was not rare to watch a game with the quality of the game we saw on sunday.

Every team had at least 6 or 7 stars. Nowadays some team don't even have three really good players.

Hockey has been just so-so in the last 6 years over here in Montreal. But the arena is full every game. Scary to see many places half-empty when watching Montreal's game on TV when they are on the road.

I just hope that someday in the near future we'll see more great games like we used to watch in the 70s and 80s

When that happens we won't need agressive marketing based around emptiness.