That Canadian goalie was horrific. Such a shame that the NHL used COVID as an excuse to pull their players from the Olympics this time around.

If not NHL players, I wish it would have been a retry of the World Juniors.

I know the NHL had planned on it this time around, but I've never really read into why it's such a big ****ing deal... I assume the vast majority of players want to play in the Olympics, and what amounts to All Star teams is the best thing in sports (granted, Canada should get two teams). I just default to blaming Bettman every time it doesn't happen. :cuss:

They call Wayne Gretzky "the great one" even though he ONLY has four fights in his entire NHL career. I'm not impressed. Here's the one where #99 thought he was a bad ass ROFL https://youtu.be/oeTFM_HUass->

Yeah, it had to be more than fear of COVID. These guys play a very dangerous sport. They can't be afraid of much.

They're currently making up games that were cancelled in late December/early January... and I think some of that was empty stadiums in Canada as opposed to players being on Covid protocol.

The schedule was already going into late April with the Olympic break... I'm sure they could have put a bit more effort into making up games though.

Overall though, there are always weeks/months of negotiations and crap, so I wasn't surprised they were so quick to pull the plug on it. :(

Make fun of curling all you want, but damn how do you frantically whip that Swiffer side to side while leaning hard on it and sliding down the ice in a pair of Nikes without hitting the stone with the Swiffer, or hitting any other stones or sliding into a stone. Skills.

Why so much coverage of this Shiffrin chick? She's getting buried in every event.

She won gold in the past 2 Olympics and in the World Championships the past few years. Now this year she's just failing pretty hard.

Because she's hot

She was promoted and pushed as one of the faces of the US team along with Nathan Chen and Shaun White. Chen delivered, White at least made a final and went out with somewhat of a bang, Shiffren has totally bombed. Didn't finish in two events and didn't come close to medaling in two others. I really like her because (besides the obvious USA) she is very honest and real in interviews but it's hard to equate this size of a collapse into other sports terms. It would kinda be like if Mahomes played like he did in the 2nd half of the AFCCG in 4 straight big games.

Gotta admit, I really expected to see a few screw ups while they were doing that. They are really going to town. On ice.

Admittedly, the curling stuff really fascinates me and I've watched it every time.

Well, they're not quite Nikes like the kind you or I wear, but curling does take significant skill. I usually record and FF to the last few ends but I do like a good US Olympic curling match.

She was the one of the best skiers in the world coming into the Olympics but when she fell 5 gates into her first run, she just mentally broke. Unfortunately, she was always dependent upon her dad to help guide her through stuff like this, but he died a couple of years ago.
She's a complete head case right now. She's back skiing but seems tentative to push the boundaries like she normally does.

Yeah. Hopefully she regroups and can give it one more shot in 4 years.

Agreed