11-12-2021, 03:58 PM
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I don't think they will be as humiliating as South Korea in the last olympics, despite having a team full of professional hockey players, still gotten blown out despite there being no NHLers.
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11-12-2021, 04:13 PM
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#42
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 161 St. - Yankee Stadium
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You don't hear us whining when they wipe the floor with us in gymnastics and table tennis. Learn from your losses. They have over a billion people to draw from. Won't take long to be somewhat competitive.
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11-12-2021, 04:30 PM
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#43
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Spencer Foo will make sure to score a Hatty on Canada
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I don’t think Foo will fare too well against Canada
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11-12-2021, 04:34 PM
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#44
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All I can get
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There's two Foos.
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11-12-2021, 04:37 PM
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#45
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Spencer Foo will make sure to score a Hatty on Canada
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Bahahahahhaaha
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11-12-2021, 04:39 PM
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#46
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Republic of Panama
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It's going to be like when Panama made it to the World Cup. The country will go crazy when (if?) they score a goal. Not all victories involve medals.
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11-12-2021, 04:41 PM
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This happens when you are the hosts. In Beijing 2008, China got destroyed in Handball, Water Polo, Field Hockey, Baseball etc...
This is an act of self-inportance from the IIHF.
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11-12-2021, 04:47 PM
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#48
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Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
This happens when you are the hosts. In Beijing 2008, China got destroyed in Handball, Water Polo, Field Hockey, Baseball etc...
This is an act of self-inportance from the IIHF.
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Aren't they all?
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11-12-2021, 04:52 PM
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#49
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
Yes, you'd want an easier QF by winning the group which could come down to goal difference.
This is just China's play to be good at everything but can't be. I'm sure when Canada hosted the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada got their asses handed to them in handball and soccer. The commies were sending pros.
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Yep and we didn't even win a gold medal in those Olympics.
I hope teams are even more merciless on China now after this story.
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11-12-2021, 05:04 PM
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#50
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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I honestly wonder how well our women's hockey team or the US team would do against team china.
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11-12-2021, 05:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by icarus
Yep and we didn't even win a gold medal in those Olympics.
I hope teams are even more merciless on China now after this story.
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Well, if you exclude the East German women who have since been proven to be cheating, we had a number of gold medals.
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11-12-2021, 05:21 PM
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#52
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Bahahahahhaaha
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You can laugh but Foo is actually putting together a solid season this year.
He has 20 point in 26 games. He also plays on a horrible team though.
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11-12-2021, 05:28 PM
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#53
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sharkov
I don't think they will be as humiliating as South Korea in the last olympics, despite having a team full of professional hockey players, still gotten blown out despite there being no NHLers.
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Nothing about South Korea's performance in 2018 was humiliating. South Korea legitimately qualified for the Olympics via the qualification tournament, and and their small squad of Canadians all played in the Asia league for at least 4 years prior. Their Canadian captain played in the Asia league for seven years. SK also showed up to the Olympics with team that was mostly made up of actual Koreans that were developed in the Korean hockey system, they played hard every single shift, and didn't look too out of place against the big nations' non-NHL rosters.
If China replicated the Korean strategy of bringing in NHL-level coaching for their national team and developing their domestic Korean players over time, I don't think we could call 2022 an embarrassment for them either.
...but China formed their team in worst possible way and hopefully the Big 6 nations light them up like a Christmas tree.
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11-12-2021, 05:41 PM
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#54
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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It's too bad we can't change our lineup during the tournament. It would be nice to beat them with a team of only Michaels.
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11-12-2021, 06:32 PM
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#55
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Quote:
Originally Posted by boogerz
Nothing about South Korea's performance in 2018 was humiliating. South Korea legitimately qualified for the Olympics via the qualification tournament, and and their small squad of Canadians all played in the Asia league for at least 4 years prior. Their Canadian captain played in the Asia league for seven years. SK also showed up to the Olympics with team that was mostly made up of actual Koreans that were developed in the Korean hockey system, they played hard every single shift, and didn't look too out of place against the big nations' non-NHL rosters.
If China replicated the Korean strategy of bringing in NHL-level coaching for their national team and developing their domestic Korean players over time, I don't think we could call 2022 an embarrassment for them either.
...but China formed their team in worst possible way and hopefully the Big 6 nations light them up like a Christmas tree.
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Korea fdid not face any teams with any NHL players and had a considerable amount of ex-NHL players plying for them. Also Korea had more prep time as there was no Covid-19, so how they were not able to squeeze one win was beyond me despite the IIHF doing their best to setup a koren win
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Last edited by sharkov; 11-12-2021 at 06:36 PM.
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11-12-2021, 06:35 PM
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I think it would be wrong to kick them out. Many of the players on that Kunlun team went over there to play so that they could meet the Chinese eligibility requirements. It would be pretty upsetting to see those players not get a chance now. Reading some interviews from guys like Brandon Yip, they don't care if they get blown out. They just want to be there
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11-12-2021, 06:50 PM
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#57
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by boogerz
...but China formed their team in worst possible way and hopefully the Big 6 nations light them up like a Christmas tree.
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Bureaucrats paying off the team to put their kids on the team?
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11-12-2021, 07:06 PM
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#58
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane
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Saw this coming the day Beijing was awarded the games. Sucks we rarely get to see best on best international hockey and 3 of the games will be wasted on blowouts.
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Last edited by FireGilbert; 11-12-2021 at 07:08 PM.
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11-12-2021, 07:54 PM
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#59
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames1217
You can laugh but Foo is actually putting together a solid season this year.
He has 20 point in 26 games. He also plays on a horrible team though.
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I’ll eat a handful of my own pubes if he scores 3 on Canada.
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11-12-2021, 08:02 PM
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#60
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: YYC
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Hey China let's talk about the Uyghurs first and then we can chat about hockey.
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