Canada beats the US for Hockey Gold

[Herr Bad Moon]

I haven't been this depressed about a sports loss since my Mariner's flamed out in the ALCS in 2001, and I only know I was grieving harder because I don't remember much of that night.  Grats to Canada, they were just the better team even though the US did make a game of it.  If you're gonna lose, OT in a gold medal match is about the best way to do it.  

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I admit, I've never wanted to puke at the sight of a maple leaf till now.  
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

[Epsilon]

*patpat* There, there.
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Epsilon

[Wiregeek]

the U.S. made silver in olympic hockey?

cool.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Logan Darklighter]

Grats to Canada!
I always get the impression that Hockey just means MUCH more to Canadians. So good on ya and party!
And hey, we made you work for it. That makes it all the sweeter, eh?

[Black Aeronaut]

the U.S. made silver in olympic hockey?

cool.

Dude, in the prelims the US Team handed the Canadians their buts on a silver platter with a 6-2 score.  I halfway expected a repeat, at the very least a close and hard-won victory.  This result is something of a let-down, though I must admit that it's pretty cathartic for the Canadians.  My hat's off to them, but at the same time... *SIGH*

[robkelk]

I haven't been this depressed about a sports loss

Loss? What loss? I thought we won that game...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Florin]

MwaHAHAHAHA! Don't you see!? America was _Allowed_ to come so close to the gold! For only when it seems victory is in your grasp, just to have it snatched away at the last moment can you truly taste Ultimate Despair! That is the way of the Anti-Spiral... I mean Canadians. Yes Canadians. Who are not mass murdering zealot's at all.

Seriously though, I'm glad America won the first game. Made the finals feel like real finals, unlike what a game against Russia or Germany or something probably would have been.
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If you become a monster to put down a monster you've still got a monster running around at the end of the day and have as such not really solved the whole monster problem at all. 

[Wiregeek]

Who are not mass murdering zealot's at all.

Tsk. Don't you know, all Canadians are required by law to have at least a 6" blade concealed on their persons at all times, so that when the Great Curling comes, the Americans will be caught unawares by their ceaselessy polite overlords?

I'm cool with the US taking Silver in the highest level of hockey in the world, especially when the Gold winner was such a respected (and feared!) group such as Canada..
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Wiregeek]

"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Valles]

Hmm.

Shall I restrain myself in the interests of taste, or be sincere about things?

Decisions, decisions.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

[Wiregeek]

come on, V, let your freak flag fly.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Valles]

As you like it, then.

Ahem.

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A pox on all your houses.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."