US vs. Canada 3rd Period Open Thread
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 3:43 PM CST
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The good guys are down 2-1, within striking distance. Can we come back, or are the men destined to repeat the women's disappointing silver finish?
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Our power play needs to improve if we hope to outscore the maplemen by 2 this period. That was an embarrassing performance in P2. Dump and chase, boys. Spread it out, make chances and fire the puck on net. Don’t try to skate through the Canadian penalty kill. That’s just stupid.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 3:45 PM CST reply actions
Brick’s keys to success this period:
1. Keep up the forecheck pressure. This is the US team’s greatest strength, and Canada has withered in the face of a strong forecheck.
2. Improve the power play. Dump and chase, spread out.
3. No more second chances. Clear the crease. The Canadians are scoring on second chances, so don’t give them any.
4. Sling the puck at Luongo. You can’t score without sending the biscuit towards the basket.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 3:50 PM CST reply actions
Fuck, guys. CLEAR THE CREASE. Head on a swivel, for Christ’s sake.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 3:52 PM CST reply actions
Holy shit. HUGE mistake by our D setting the puck slowly over the middle. The first thing you learn as a defenseman is to never, EVER send the puck over the center. That almost cost us.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:02 PM CST reply actions
Canada is doing an excellent job keeping our forwards out of the crease.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:05 PM CST reply actions
What’s a forecheck? Is it why Israel doesn’t have a hockey team?
by whoopspat on Feb 28, 2010 4:06 PM CST reply actions
It’s when you check four guys on the same shift. “Fore” is the eccentric Canadian spelling of four.
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:09 PM CST reply actions
At least that was the way it was explained to me.
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:09 PM CST reply actions
What’s a forecheck? Is it why Israel doesn’t have a hockey team?
rimshot
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:09 PM CST reply actions
Wow. Nice recovery, but Crosby on a breakaway terrifies me.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:13 PM CST reply actions
Gretzky would have scored on that breakaway.
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:14 PM CST reply actions
I’m feeling a goal from Parise here.
Hopefully, not an open net own-goal.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:16 PM CST reply actions
Hopefully, not an open net own-goal.
That would still count as a correct prediction.
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:17 PM CST reply actions
This game is about as statistically even as possible, except for the score.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:18 PM CST reply actions
GOD BLESS AMERICA! AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN! FIGHT TERRORISM!
by whoopspat on Feb 28, 2010 4:20 PM CST reply actions
US. Canada. Gold medal on the line. OVERTIME. How’s that for a fucking hockey game?
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:21 PM CST reply actions
Overtime in the gold medal game… Could anything be greater?
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:21 PM CST reply actions
Hell’s yea. USA! USA! USA!
Wonder if Crosby is going to get criticized for blowing the breakaway???
by Patrick Bateman on Feb 28, 2010 4:22 PM CST reply actions
Haha, gotta love jumping into the glass. thats a big fuck you to the Canadian crowd.
by NY Horn on Feb 28, 2010 4:23 PM CST reply actions
Loud Noises! I don’t understand what is happening but I’m enjoying the excitement and I’m into nationalism!
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:24 PM CST reply actions
I wonder if this will be a shot in the arm to the NHL
by dick on Feb 28, 2010 4:24 PM CST reply actions
This combined with next year’s NBA lockout might do the trick.
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:26 PM CST reply actions
Loud Noises! I don’t understand what is happening but I’m enjoying the excitement and I’m into nationalism!
Twelve men are using wooden sticks to propel a rubber disc back and forth along a rather large sheet of ice.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:26 PM CST reply actions
I got that part. It’s primarily offsides and icing that confuse me. Also penalties.
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:30 PM CST reply actions
.Loud Noises! I don’t understand what is happening but I’m enjoying the excitement and I’m into nationalism!
This describes my viewing experience so far.
by whoopspat on Feb 28, 2010 4:30 PM CST reply actions
Brick’s Keys to Overtime Success:
1. Don’t fuck up. Bad things happen when you fuck up. Bad things like the other team scoring the winning goal.
2. Score a goal. Doing this will all but assure a gold medal. So, do everything in your power to score a goal.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:31 PM CST reply actions
Offisides seems like such a large part of the strategy of the game that my lack of understanding seems to prevent me from getting any of the real strategy, other than the whole “shield the goalie so he can’t see the shot and try to deflect it in.”
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:32 PM CST reply actions
Offsides – a player can’t enter the offensive zone before the puck.
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:32 PM CST reply actions
Offside: the puck must cross the opponent’s blue line before any offensive player.
Icing: this occurs when a player sends the puck from behind the center red line (i.e. on the defensive side of the red line) and it crosses the opponent’s goal line, w/o the puck touching another player.
Penalties: you generally cannot trip, hook, crosscheck, fight, elbow, board or interfere. Comprende?
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:34 PM CST reply actions
“I wish I was drunk right now.”
Just one more reason to stay drunk all the time.
by nordberg on Feb 28, 2010 4:35 PM CST reply actions
Got it. Thanks. The offsides rule seems to really influence the flow of the game, so that helps.
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:36 PM CST reply actions
4 on 4, what the fuck? That can’t help our chances.
by NY Horn on Feb 28, 2010 4:36 PM CST reply actions
I have a feeling Luongo is going to choke like only a French-Italian Canadian can.
by bigdukesix on Feb 28, 2010 4:39 PM CST reply actions
For those unfamiliar with hockey, “sudden death” only rarely involves actual death.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:40 PM CST reply actions
I haven’t felt this patriotic since I watched Rocky fight Drago.
by nordberg on Feb 28, 2010 4:41 PM CST reply actions
“like only a French-Italian Canadian can”
With a bad mustache, cigarettes, the heart of a coward, and tremndous earnestness?
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:43 PM CST reply actions
4-on-4 really benefits Canada, what with their superior “speed” and “skill.”
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:44 PM CST reply actions
“Whatdoya Want From Me”-Adam Lambert techno song comes to mind. Canada is far from being perfect, but I think Americans are abit jealous of their cousins up North- and surprised-by all that Canada has(We like to keep things quiet). No “American-Style” slums in Canada. I will leave it at that. I won’t even watch this game. I’m not into hockey, anyway. That’s even more surprising. May the best team win.
by Quacktown on Feb 28, 2010 4:45 PM CST reply actions
Dammit. What a game. Canada wins at hockey. We win at kicking the shit out of the Middle East.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:45 PM CST reply actions
Well, it was bound to happen. The US didn’t achieve either of the two keys I outlined for overtime and, as might be expected, lost as a result. In hockey, you have to score goals and not fuck up.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 4:49 PM CST reply actions
I admire Canada’s liberal drug possession laws. But I hate the cold and question the sanity of anyone who chooses to live in it for 8 months of the year.
by ghostofagroundgame on Feb 28, 2010 4:59 PM CST reply actions
That’s why i live in Philly-but now we’ve been hit with 7 feet of “Canadian_Style” blizzards!!
by Mind Mover Loser on Feb 28, 2010 5:03 PM CST reply actions
Excellent fucking game. First time I can remember getting multiple texts from friends watching.
Let’s pretend that the scoring is on aggregate. WE WIN 7-6!!!
by magnusbleuveigner on Feb 28, 2010 5:11 PM CST reply actions
Vancouver basically looks like Hong Kong.
Also, I think every homeless person in Canada lives there.
bigduke and Brick, are you guys familiar with Tyler Arnasson? I had the pleasure of meeting his sister in Vancouver. Good looking girl, and real cool. Pretty much a ’Something About Mary" type.
by magnusbleuveigner on Feb 28, 2010 5:14 PM CST reply actions
bigduke and Brick, are you guys familiar with Tyler Arnasson?
Nope. But I haven’t followed the NHL for years.
by BrickHorn on Feb 28, 2010 5:40 PM CST reply actions
It was a bittersweet Olympics. An Athlete dies a needless death, an Actor takes his own life in Vancouver. I wish I had the time to actually watch the Olympics.
by Quacktown on Mar 1, 2010 1:08 PM CST reply actions
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