It's so unabashedly venomous too. Cassie's comments before the...94 or 98? games where she was on the elevator with the US team and the rookies were trash talking her. The flag incident, the "how's it feel to lose?" comment before the comeback in Sochi, and a ton of smaller things like the comment and staredown after the penalty shot yesterday. This is a feud 20 years long with no signs of slowing down. It's now very ingrained in any game they play.
A best of 7 would be insane.
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Some of sports best rivalries are the ones where there's genuine hate behind it. I know this is going to sound sexist, but with scrums in men's hockey, you know that they're fighting from the heat of the moment but they'd all likely have a beer afterwards and laugh it off. The best part about that game ending scrum in the women's game, is that there's 20+ years of hatred behind each push, shove and punch.
You can tell at the end with the "handshakes", they were just slapping hands.
Way more exciting than MMA with fake heat between fighters. I hated it so much when Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock hugged and shook hands after their rubber match. Ditto when Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones hugged too. I feel like such a sucker for believing they had genuine hatred for each other.
Technically Szabados was ineligible because she played in a preseason game (splitting time with Carey Price), not just because she attended the training camp. But she didn't have any intention on going to the NCAA anyway. She was fine going the AJHL to ACAC route.
Poulin is money in gold medal games....never ceases to amaze me how some layer can live in the moment and just be clutch in big games....
I have no doubt in my mind that she wins it on the PP with a minute left if the d-man didn't fall over and then miss a pass by 10 feet leading to a rush the other way.
You could just tell she wanted the puck so bad but was gassed from having to backcheck hard to break up the rush going back the other way.
I have no doubt in my mind that she wins it on the PP with a minute left if the d-man didn't fall over and then miss a pass by 10 feet leading to a rush the other way.
You could just tell she wanted the puck so bad but was gassed from having to backcheck hard to break up the rush going back the other way.
That was some Gulutzan level type coaching. Putting on that player who hadn't played since the 2nd period who then chokes on a any easy pass back to the point. Wasting all those precious seconds off near the end of overtime cost them the gold.
Course they should have lost in OT to begin with. The Americans were all over them.
That was some Gulutzan level type coaching. Putting on that player who hadn't played since the 2nd period who then chokes on a any easy pass back to the point. Wasting all those precious seconds off near the end of overtime cost them the gold.
Course they should have lost in OT to begin with. The Americans were all over them.
Because the coach triple shifted the same 4 D and same 4 Forwards. Who were exhausted. While the US rolled deeper into their bench.
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That was some Gulutzan level type coaching. Putting on that player who hadn't played since the 2nd period who then chokes on a any easy pass back to the point. Wasting all those precious seconds off near the end of overtime cost them the gold.
Meh. Muckler is acclaimed for playing a hunch in '90 and putting Klima on the ice after only playing one previous shift in three OT periods plus a half hour blackout.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This time it very much didn't.