I'm not trying to dis on hockey, I love watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Olympics but Hockey is only big in certain parts of the world. Canada for sure, the Scandinavian countries, Russia, some parts of the US not everywhere they don't care about hockey in the south or Texas and a few spots here and there. With that said, it's still a great sport I wish I learned how to skate when I was a kid but growing up in LA there really is no need for it. It's also a man's sport so I have a respect for the game and Canada clearly is #1 in hockey.
ok buddy, this is the same ridiculous argument they make for football, baseball and etc. Who cares how popular a sport is in how many countries specially poor countries who can't afford the sport?! yes soccer is predominantly more popular in poor countries cause its cheap and its easy to play, so what?
As far as i am concerned hockey and football are the two greatest sports in the world requiring the highest level of athleticism and skill. They are also the toughest and most explosive sports and perhaps only basketball players come close to this. it wouldn't matter if it was played in only 2 countries.
Plus as i mentioned if you look at it closely technically hockey is popular in more important countries in world if you wanna put it that way.
As far as i am concerned hockey and football are the two greatest sports in the world requiring the highest level of athleticism and skill. They are also the toughest and most explosive sports and perhaps only basketball players come close to this. it wouldn't matter if it was played in only 2 countries.
Plus as i mentioned if you look at it closely technically hockey is popular in more important countries in world if you wanna put it that way.
hockey is toughest sport to play as you mentioned, these days if a pro hockey player come to training camp not in very good shape it doesn't take long for the rest to find up , because the young and new generation kids train like animal , which was not the case 20 years ago ! that is not me , this is something many many athletes mentioned it
dude i think it may not have been as exciting looking simply because no one was ever going to touch this canadian team. they gave up 3 goals in 6 games - 2 of them flukes realy and if they had to play another 6 games they probably would give up even less goals. Canada was simply on another planet.
Again the only comparisson i can make is that with US basketball team, if they go on and blow everyone out ina tournament it would look like a boring tourney no?
Again the only comparisson i can make is that with US basketball team, if they go on and blow everyone out ina tournament it would look like a boring tourney no?
People talk like Canada went to this torunement like underdog and make crazy deal of winning gold medal . This is CANADA which their 3th or 4th team can compete to win gold . specially this year when Finland had almost no one , no Barkov , no Mikko Koivu, No saku , No Filppula , Sweden same look at their attacking line : No Zetterberg, no Franzen , No Backstrom ( in final ) no H.Sedin ! I mean come on you expect Canada lose against these teams LOLL!
Only challenge of Canada was USA game , this was a team that had decent squad on paper .again USA defense was no where close to Canada , put most of Canadians NHL goalis and they could get the job done with such a defense that make PK SUbban as healthy scratch, Luongo won it 4 years a go .so this is a team achievement and as I said defense win you championship . when you get guys like Weber, Doughty, Keith ,Bouwmeester in your D,you have everything it takes to win
Only challenge of Canada was USA game , this was a team that had decent squad on paper .again USA defense was no where close to Canada , put most of Canadians NHL goalis and they could get the job done with such a defense that make PK SUbban as healthy scratch, Luongo won it 4 years a go .so this is a team achievement and as I said defense win you championship . when you get guys like Weber, Doughty, Keith ,Bouwmeester in your D,you have everything it takes to win
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True that, but lets face it, as mentioend and as many experts say none of those players would make a bit of difference in the overall outcome. Canada simply had the biggest, fastest, deepest, and probably most skillfull squad by far.
And no not realy was this win a surprise, fully expected by all hockey fans, but we aslo know what happened back in nagano and where wasit 8 years ago too, when canada had the best team on paper specialy that dream team only to lose in semis. you never know with these tourneys and with only 3 games in playoffs anything can happen.
i just cant imagine any canadian hockey team losing to any team out there in any tourney if it was a 7 game series deal like we have in NHL, just not possible, but just 3 games disaster can happen.
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regarding hockey in the US..
thought this one was interesting
http://grantland.com/features/miracle-off-ice/
thought this one was interesting
http://grantland.com/features/miracle-off-ice/
this is the list of all hockey tournaments where canadian pros participated to date:
basically canada has lost only 3 tournaments out of 12 world cups to date
1972 Canada - Soviet union...................Summit
1976 Canada - Czechoslovakia........................Canada cup
1981 Soviet Union - Canada .............................Canada cup
1984 Canada - Sweden........................................Canada cup
1987 Canada - Soviet Union ..............................Canada cup
1991 Canada - USA................................................Canada cup
1996 USA - Canada ...............................................World cup
1998 Czech - Russia Olympics
2002 Canada - USA................................................Olympics
2004 Canada - USA................................................world cup
2006 Sweden - Finnland............................................................................Olympics
2010 Canada - USA.................................................Olympics
2014 Canada - Sweden.............................Olympics
basically canada has lost only 3 tournaments out of 12 world cups to date
1972 Canada - Soviet union...................Summit
1976 Canada - Czechoslovakia........................Canada cup
1981 Soviet Union - Canada .............................Canada cup
1984 Canada - Sweden........................................Canada cup
1987 Canada - Soviet Union ..............................Canada cup
1991 Canada - USA................................................Canada cup
1996 USA - Canada ...............................................World cup
1998 Czech - Russia Olympics
2002 Canada - USA................................................Olympics
2004 Canada - USA................................................world cup
2006 Sweden - Finnland............................................................................Olympics
2010 Canada - USA.................................................Olympics
2014 Canada - Sweden.............................Olympics
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