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Nah, it’s a factor of Tortorella being a fucking idiot.
“Grit” in hockey is generally a dogwhistle term that refers to those small town farm boys winning against those slick Europeans (aka Us vs Them) See, they have the bigger ice surfaces over there so they can skate fast and have puck skills but we’ll just beat them into submission with our size .. and “heart”. They…
Caution: long post upcoming. A lot of this is from a good summary at Reddit.
Here’s a secret a lot of people gloss over when talking about the Miracle on Ice: The Soviets weren’t that good.
re: TNA bandwagoning - they might be out of the tournament if they lose today, so it’s cool to jump on board. The big bandwagon moment was after they roughed up Finland.
It’s more a legacy of the 1996 World Cup winning team. That team is considered gritty as it had some legitimate agitators (Keith Tkachuk, Bill Guerin) but ignores the fact it also had five Hall of Famers and a bunch more Hall of Very Good players - it was exactly what the article above points out, that grit is how you…
Eh, I don’t think so. Miracle on Ice was nearly 40 years ago; the game has evolved three or four times since then. I can’t imagine anyone (even a raging shithead like Tortorella) closely involved in USA hockey believing ‘grit’ and ‘intangibles’ can truly beat better athletes. Besides, that Miracle on Ice win, as cool…
It was more a legacy of the 1996 team which beat Canada for the World Cup. A team that was also very “gritty”, in the form of guys like Chelios, Hatcher(s), Tkachuk, and Suter. It also had a ton of skill with guys like Modano, Hull, LaFontaine, Leetch, Housley, and Mike Richter in net. Grit had little to do with that…
It’s important to note is that in 1980, professional hockey players did not participate in the Olympics. So the US players were all amateur and collegiate - and yes, people were extremely enamored with the narrative of a ragtag group of young men punching up against the powerful Soviet team.
Now, despite the fact that…
Go ahead and order the shirt. I think most of us Americans who understand hockey were already secretly rooting for TNA due to the composition of Team USA and its inevitable demise.
No, because the 1996 US team - the only US team to ever win an important tournament - was jam packed with hall of fame players (three on the blue line alone).
No, it’s just that John Tortorella is a moron who wasted great talent on most of the teams he ever coached.
It’s more a legacy of John Tortorella, who is a dipshit, who believes that all you need is some sandpaper and you win.
It probably was for Torts.
Less the legacy of the Miracle on Ice, and more of Tortorella being a dinosaur. He was successful with the old NHL in Tampa, but he wasn’t a miracle-worker in Vancouver, and wore out his welcome in NY.
I just called Graham’s office and asked the staffer who picked up why the senator wants to abandon the Constitution. She said he doesn’t. I said, but he’s calling to deprive an American citizen who’s suspected of a crime of his constitutional right to a jury trial, why is he doing that? She said she couldn’t give me a…
“but Wentz led his offense this evening with rare composure”