Olympic Hockey Thread

“On USA now.”

“women's. :D”

“Have any of the new NHL rules carried over into Olympic play? I'm just curious.”

“No. Olympic rules are slightly different. Amateur rules, I think.”

“I wish they had babe lingerie hockey like football. How pointy would that be!”

“Not quite the same as beach volleyball is it.”

“Beach Volleybal............................I think the Summer Games should be every two years”

“Canadians as are impolitely beating the crap out of Italy in women's hockey. 7-0 as the second period winds down. Oh, ... make that 8-0.”

“Now it's 9-0.”

“US women beat the Swiss, 6-0.”

“yep, USA would have been a lot higher if not for all of the Suisse goalie's saves. she had 38 when I quit watching”

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“It's now 16-0 in the third. They passed their old record of 13.

Running up the score is not very polite.”

“And the final horn mercifully blows.”

“Yup 16 - 0 does seem a bit impolite, but point totals count toward deciding who gets 'home ice' advantage later on.

GO CANADA !!”

“By the way... how do they say 'Go Pylons' in Italy ?

;-)”

“Felt bad for the Italian women's team...from what I heard, they're in the division 2 level....that's two levels down from the Canadian Women's team.

And I don't get the "home ice" advantage. What home ice....all the Elite teams would be playing in Torina, Italy.”

“Women's Hockey? That is like men giving birth. It is unnatural.”

“Starky and Hutch drove a boss Torino.”

““Women's Hockey? That is like men giving birth. It is unnatural.”

hey, as long as the fights end up in a bra-and-panty match, i can dig it”

“not many fights in oly hockey. More hockey.”

“Gremlin coaches girls rugby in Quebec.

Some guys have all the luck!!”

“Now the CAN women are whooping it up on RUS. 3-0 in the first!”

“heh, heh. Rusky and Canuck women wrestling on the ice.”

“Stanlee - The 'home' team gets the last player change before a face-off to have the advantage in matching lines”

““Women's Hockey? That is like men giving birth. It is unnatural.”

hey, as long as the fights end up in a bra-and-panty match, i can dig it”
Crash Bang
9:14:46 AM
2/12/06

You sure want a whooping don't ya? And the only thing in a bra and panties will be YOU!!!”

“I'm pretty sure the rules the the Olympic Tournament will go by are the IHF (International Hockey Federation) rules, more commonly refered to as the European-style rules.

Like the new NHL, the center line does not count for passing, so there are not two line passes. Also, I'm pretty sure IHF uses the delayed offsides, meaning offside is only whistled if you control the puck while you're offside.

However, what I think is different is that icing is immediate, meaning that it is whistled as soon as the puck illegally crosses the goal line, as opposed to the NHL, which gives the offending a chance to beat the defense to the puck to waive the icing off.

Also, the Olympic rink is 13.5 feet wider than the NHL rink and there is more space behind the goals than on NHL rinks, providing more room from rushing plays and setting up goals from behind the net.

The third thing that's different is that the NHL allows offensive players to enter the goal crease, in attempt to increase general scoring for audiences, as long as the offensive players don't directly interfere with the goaltender by their own doing (at the referee's live discretion). On an Olympic rink, the goal crease is completely off limits to offensive players and goals scored from that zone will be disallowed. The Olympic goal crease is also much bigger than the NHL's.

There's a really nice spread about this on Yahoo's Olympics Ice Hockey page.

I think this rule set up favors the Europeans over the North American players, and together with all the injury problems team Canada has been having, look for the Czech Republic team to dominate this tournament, especially with Jagr playing the way he has been for the last couple of weeks.

My prediction:
1 (Gold):Czech Republic2 (Silver):Canada3 (Bronze):Toss up -- USA? Russia? Sweden?
last edited: 2/12/06 1:55:54 PM”

“Thanks Hodgeman of BC....I just heard that on the tv today during the Women's Russian vs Canadian game. Also, the home ice advantage team gets to choose their jersey colours. I think the Canadian team should choose the white jersey instead of the black. I read somewhere that in the NHL...the dark coloured jersey team usually get more penalties. I guess it's a good (light colour) vs evil (dark colour) thing......

Canadian women shuts out Russian women by a score of 12 to 0.”

“The other thing that they mentioned , which I wasn't aware of, is that the home team gets to be last to put their stick into the face-off”

“US Men Tie Latvia and then beat 11th seed Kazakhstan 4-1.

Medal Contender?????”

“when are the hockey games on?”

“Good question. I haven't been able to see one yet.”

“Good frikken question! I don't mind missing the early stuff but The US is playing Slovakia tomorrow and Czech is playing Finland.

Would like to see those.

Although, not sure how Czech is. Wish that country wouldn't have split, dammit!”

“I'm not sure how well they will do now. I guess they just lost Dominik Hasek and Patrik Elias to injuries.

http://www.nhl.com/olympics/2006/injuries021706.html”

“tomorrow, NBC. Men's, USA vs Slovakia

check your local listings.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv/index.html?state=0&zipCode=87122&callSign=KOB&lineupId=NM30443:-&fromTimeInMillis=1140285600000”

“that will be a game.........my grandmother came from Dolny Kubin, Slovakia”

“Thanks Pathman.”

“12:00P ET 12:30P ET

2006 Torino Games: Daytime

Cross-Country Skiing - Women's relay
Biathlon - Men's pursuit
Ice Hockey - Men: Team USA faces off against Slovakia.
Short Track - Women: China's Yang Yang (A) leads the 1500m semifinals field that includes fast-improving American Hyo-Jung (Halie) Kim.

WTF??????????”

“full game could be on USA or CNBC, haven't checked yet.”

“Can it be done again? Like in Salt Lake city?

Canadian Women's Hockey team: Gold

Canadian Men's Hockey team: Gold

both teams went against the American teams.

Will both the American teams be in the finals this time around? American Women's team look pretty solid.”

“Sweden just beat the US women in a shootout. Dang.”

“Pretty wild game between Italy and Germany. Tied 3-3 less than a minute.”

“Now Canada and Switzerland. :D”

“Wrong Pathman...if you're talking about the women's game.

It's Canada vs Sweden for Gold, and U.S vs Finland for Bronze.”

“Swiss shut out Canada.”

“Yes, what's up with that?”

“The canadians were out with Bode last night.”

“So were the Americans!”

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Jagr took several stitches to the head after being checked into the boards by Finland’s Jarkko Ruutu on Saturday and may miss his team’s next game on Sunday against Italy, team officials said.”

“I just hope Forsberg doesn't aggravate his groin. Man's made of glass!”