He didn't fucking lose...they beat Canada in the first game, with some authority. That's gotta say something for team USA. Canada just happened to be the better team on the right night...which ended up being the gold medal game. In my mind it was pretty even between the two teams with Canada only coming up with the gold because they happened to play a little bit better on the bigger stage, and they did have their home ice and everyone in the whole damn country backing them up. I think the US players, including my boy Kesler, showed a lot of heart and guts to go up there and hanging with the "power house" Canadians. USA came away with silver, and could've maybe gotten gold had things gone their way a little more; I think it shows a lot about how US hockey has come along and how they're not gonna take shit from Canada anymore. Looking down on Americans as inferior in the sport they prize most. Hey Canada....if you love it so much why don't you start your own league that matches the NHL so we don't have to do everything for you! I wasn't trying to be disrespectful to Canada or the Canadian team when I said I was glad to hear that Kesler was trash talking. Trash talking is meant for sports, especially when bragging rights for the whole country are at stake, so I was glad to hear that Kesler was sticking up for his country and giving back what I know the Canadians have done for a very long time. So hey...we're pretty much on par now with Canada and have almost matched you in the only sport that matters to the country. At least we have other sports that we pride aside from hockey. Thats Canadas only sport they supposedly are amazing at and they can barely beat the "inferior" team. Well sorry for the rambling but anyways I'm proud of Kesler...I'm proud of team USA. I'm not going to boo the gold medalists and won't show a lack of respect for their "greatness", Rick Nash is my boy too, I was just doing some trash talking. Congratulations Team Canada on the gold medal...well done boys. Great job Team USA on one hell of a tournament and the silver medal and thank you world for having such an awesome tournament of players!! See you in 2014 in Sochi motherfuckers!! Haha
I don't want to be rude. You say some things I totally agree with here. But I have to start off by saying: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You're saying that the US beat Canada "with authority" in the first game? Did you even watch the game? The US won 5-3, with the fifth goal being an empty-netter, so they basically won 4-3. Canada outshot the US 45-23 in that game. LET ME REPEAT: CANADA OUTSHOT THE US 45-23 IN THAT GAME. We actually outplayed YOU with authority. You won that game purely on goaltending. Brodeur was horrendous and Miller was exceptional. That's all that game came down to. Canada was the better team on that night too.
As for the gold medal game, you're right, it was a hell of a game. Very even. Canada only outshot the US 39-36 and had to play overtime to win it. In overtime, though, Canada dominated puck possession and that was the difference.
The US hasn't matched Canada in hockey and they never will. The last gold they won was 1980 and it was a fluke. You're trying to bash Canadians for not dominating the US in the "only sport we care about." If we're going to bash anybody, why don't we bash the US for not dominating Canada in every sport regardless of how much we care about it. You have roughly ten times the amount of people we do and put 32487234093725987234 times more funding into your athletic programs. You should destroy us always. Look at all of your best players and compare them to all of ours. You're not as good. Accept it, it's true.
That doesn't mean that the US can't beat us and I'm not saying the US isn't damn good at hockey because they are. I thought they were the best team in the tournament except when they played us. They have an excellent hockey program and they will continue to improve, but Canada will always continue to produce legendary players over and over and over.
As for Canada creating our own league to match the NHL so you can "stop doing it for us," get real! Who's doing what for whom? We're providing the majority of the players (over 50% of the NHL players are Canadian) and a significant number of star players. How about we take away all the Canadian players from the NHL and see how long it lasts? How about Canadian fans stop watching the NHL? The NHL exists because of Canadians. We keep it going.
Thank you for retracting your statement that you would boo Luongo and Nash. I don't think you should boo Kesler either. His silver medal is a great achievement and he and the US should be proud of it.
Try showing a little more respect to Canada. We have the most gold medals in Olympic ice hockey history (8 to the US's 2), we have won two golds since the last time the US won gold (2002 and 2010, the US's last in 1980), we have the deepest group of star players in the world, and we just won gold. Don't try to belittle it by saying that we "barely beat the US," and don't fool yourself into believing that because you took us to overtime and beat us in a qualifying round game that you've caught up to us. We still outplayed you and we still won. Get it, we won, you lost, gold to Canada, silver to the US. Do you get it? Win a gold in Russia and then say that, maybe, you're on your way to catching up. Until then, Canada rules the hockey world, again.
