Where are you getting "the" in Newfoundland? I thought that was a typing error the first time, but you said it again.

Did anyone see the NHL's PG version of 24/7 during the Sochi Olympics when Teemu was just walking around the Olympic village soaking in the experience? Shaking hands with all the women's hockey teams?

The advanced stats stuff is like debating climate change with people. It's like how the 'particularly bad winter' argument wins out over the hard math of annual temperature by region. But who wants to stare at some dull chart anyway? It's cold! It divides the people who believe only what they see, *cough*…

I was going to reply to that guy but like others I decided he was trolling. I swear I was baited by the exact same comment before where the guy said, "if you don't agree the whole sport racist, then you're a bigot" and never came back to defend it.

If you're neutral. That's the entire point.

It's the nervous wreck aspect. No other sport quite has it. You spend 15 minutes holding your breath as the team weathers one goal mouth scramble after another until you almost can't take it anymore. So if things suddenly go your way it's that much more jubilant. The stress instantly disappears.

You didn't massacre it. It's not like you suddenly lapsed into the melody of "O Christmas Tree". It kinda just sounded like a nervous, mediocre singer who learned it only a few days in advance. Which matters, especially in nerve-wracking situations, because the mind often skips ahead to the next part if you're unsure…

But that's not unlike the milquetoast compromise that currently exists and doesn't seem to satisfy anyone. It's different, but similar in spirit. As of now the shootout point counts except in tiebreakers(which you may know already). The first tiebreaker is regulation/OT wins, which should disincentivize playing for a…

Sorry, I'm late to this reply. I didn't think you did reply and couldn't find this thread in new kinja.

That "something" was being omitted from the Olympic roster. It's clear by now from people who have spoken to Marty off-the-record that the final straw was the snub of being left off Team Canada. St. Louis had previously discussed his future in Tampa before the season because if he was going to be traded he'd prefer it…

You think he's a hack? I'm Canadian and I firmly believe up in Canada there's at least five guys better than Emrick. But he's kind of a symbol of hockey in the US. He obviously knows his stuff. To call him a hack... What annoys me about Emrick is just the sound of his voice. I'm a musician, and a singer. It's like…

I vividly recall a lot of attention being paid to McCain's age especially when he selected Sarah Palin as his running mate(understandably so on that count). To be fair, McCain had experienced serious health problems, i.e., cancer. There was so much pressure on account of his age/health the McCain campaign held an all…

I'm no longer a 20 something(though not by much) but I agree with you on meth and heroin. Those two drugs especially. I find liberals who argue for legalization of even meth: 1) have never encountered it, and 2) have a touch of priviliged, white libertarian-itis. It's a scourge decimating lives and communities and…

It's fine. I didn't say that to be polite, though. My comment was mainly to rail against bullshit Canadiana as you see up here during the Olympics, and I tacked on the joke about "a bloody car crash" at the end because it's been a running gag among my friends. Can you imagine if Americans took as much pride in…

I hope you die in a bloody car crash is a typically Canadian response?

As a Canadian the only part of that even offensive in theory is the "fuck you". Mass produced beer now owned by a multinational, principally American, corporation. Meh. And Tim Horton's... how they managed to wrap themselves in the Canadian national identity has to be the greatest marketing coup of all time. All…

It's a damn shame but NBC's primetime coverage doesn't show ANY one sport for two and a half hours. They show Americans medalling sandwiched between studio segments and pulpy biopgraphical videos. It's to appeal to a very casual, "America, FUCK YEAH!", type of audience.

I'm not going to defend this format but there was/is a logic behind it. The US avoided the higher seed opponent compared to Canada, which would have been Switzerland had they won. 1st seed Sweden faced 8th at worst, 2nd seed USA faced 7th at worst, Canada faced 6th. Both the Czechs and Slovaks were seeded lower than…

Do they adjust for gender over representation on Facebook? Though it's just my experience far more women I know use Facebook on a daily basis than men, and they're more communicative in their usage(I doubt many would disagree). Living in Canada now I can tell you there's no freaking way it's figure skating. It's…

They're in the discussion. I would actually say their stock is higher heading into Sochi than Vancouver. In Vancouver they very much caught everyone flatfooted(literally and figuratively) whereas this time they're solidly top 4. With Canada as maybe a slight favorite on paper between Russia, Sweden and the US it's a…