>>>>>>>>>>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.
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>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.
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>Are you also sick about the coverage on Tiger Woods?
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>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.
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>To me music is crap. I'm stuck on music of 70s, 80s and early 90s. After that Booooring.
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>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.
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>Magazines. Why buy a magazine that is outdated when it hits the stand when you can get reliable info on the net.
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>Perhaps you think I'm getting way off this thread's topic... I don't think I do
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>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...
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>So we see a lot of Sidney and not a lot of the others because there are no others... or a few others.
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>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.
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>Every team had at least 6 or 7 stars. Nowadays some team don't even have three really good players.
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>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.
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>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
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>When that happens we won't need agressive marketing based around emptiness.

Agreed.

I grew up with the Boston Bruins of the 60's and 70's. I used to have season tickets behind a post in Boston Garden (1 of 4 cheapest seats in the house). Met Orr, Esposito, and the whole gang.

I thoroughly enjoy watching amatuer or minor league hockey now. Fast and furious (and cheap!). We have the Topeka Roadrunners of the NAHL - I go to almost every home game.

Tiger Woods? He was the media's fault to begin with. The media built him and the media destroyed him. Personally I could give a rats a$$ about golf and I just change channels whenever he is mentioned.