2022 Winter olympics.

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by August

Hockey has always been huge around here. Kids learn to skate and play at a very young age. We got youth leagues, semi-pro, street hockey and The Bruins who are as popular, (if not more popular to some folks from Southie), than the Red Sox, Celtics or even the Patriots.

That makes a lot of sense. I'm guessing it's a regional thing as I know that kids in Canada, not all that far from you, are in some cases I know of, on skates at 2 and before. Literally. Hockey isn't as big in the southern states as it is in the Northern states and for the obvious reasons. The cold climate in the winter and freezing in the northern states and regions there makes for great in prompto skating rinks and Hockey games.


A friends dad made us a makeshift ice skating rink on property they had and I well remember the hard fought hockey games we played on it on cold, snowy and frigid Saturday Mornings / afternoons. Sometimes, we even got his dad to play too. We won a lot of Stanley Cup finals and Olympic games on that ice but I must have missed out on the medals ceremony and hoisting the Stanley Cup. My friends dad, who is a great guy and had an equally great sense of humor, gave us one his favorite coffee mugs with tape around it and lettering that said " Stanley's cup. " Somehow, it just wasn't the same.


Well, it's official. The U.S women's Olympic Hockey team lost to Canada in the Gold Medal game 3-2. I stayed up tonight to watch it. I wouldn't have missed it. I expected it to be an uphill battle against the Canadian team. While disappointed for the U.S team, I am happy for the Women's Canadian team. Well done ladies.

The Women's Canadian team played behind an incredibly stingy defense and great goal tending. They deserved to win. The Men's U.S Olympic Hockey team also lost to Slovakia last night, letting them tie the game with 30 seconds left on the clock. They played a scoreless overtime only to lose in the shootout. All in all, if you love Hockey, there were great games to be seen in the Olympics this year.

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Then there's women's hockey. They should just have the US play Canada in a best of 7 series and let them just beat the crap out of each other.

I thought that the format used by the NHL in the Stanley cup playoffs best of seven as you mentioned, would be great as well. Unfortunately, I think the time constraints of the Olympics would not make that format feasible. It would be great Hockey to see though, no doubt.