2010-olympic-hockey Stories - Second City Hockey
Feeling Bronzed: Slovakia, Finland vie for consolation prize
You'd think Slovakia versus Finland for the bronze medal would be a hotly contested match of little brothers fighting for a medal they can lord over their more decorated neighbors. Finland lost to Sweden for the gold in 2006 and for the group win in this year's preliminary round; Slovakia lost...
Odds of Canada winning the Olympic Hockey Gold Medal
I suppose I could have titled this "Odds of Team USA winning the Gold Medal," but you gotta make up your mind one way or the other. I hunted around a bit for today's lines on the Gold Medal game. Canada is favored anywhere from 65-69% over the US, unchanged since the 22nd of February. As I've...
Canadian Women's Hockey: Could someone please blow this more out of proportion?
Anybody remember the 2009 Stanley Cup celebration? While it involved no beer or cigars on the ice, the Pittsburgh Penguins decided the best way to go was to skate about 35 feet with the cup and scream "FUCKIN RIGHTS!" into the cameras. This required the tv networks to turn the sound off, which...
Olympic Gameday -- Brains vs. Bronze
Bronze Medal Game:#4 Finland vs. #7 Slovakia, 7 pm, MSNBC In a lot of ways, this Olympic tournament represents the end of an era -- it's probably the last we'll see of guys like Jagr, Selanne, Palffy, Forsberg, Niedermayer, Fedorov, Stumpel, Lidstrom, Brodeur, Gonchar -- at least competing against...
Olympic Semifinals: Vroom-vroom party-crashers [game thread]
Three of the four NHL-era Olympic gold medal winners are out. Three hockey "little brothers" remain among the final four. Finland, USA and Slovakia are the party-crashers whose presence, while not shocking, is still hardly playing to script. This is why international-style group play before the...
AP Proves Stupid Sportswriting is not Confined to Men's Hockey
It seems clear that Olympic journalism school teaches that the only good article is one that talks about how long it has been since something happened. Jaime Aron, writing for AP, tells us: "Canada['s women's hockey team] hasn't lost an Olympic hockey game since dropping the gold-medal game at the...
Olympic Hockey Semi-Final Stats Preview
You can see odds for individual games and medal in my post from yesterday. I wanted to a quick run-down of statistical performance thus far for the teams in today's Semi-Finals. First, for Canada-Slovakia, the ratio of close-in shots for to close-in shots against thus far: ...
2010 Vancouver Olympic Hockey: Canada wins gold, the US silver, Finland bronze
The United States lost the gold medal game to Canada 2-0.Canada deserved this win. The US came out flat and just weren’t able to put the puck in the net. The Canadian goaltender was a wall, though, which didn’t help matters any. Still, the US squandered two 5-on-3 power play chances to...
Olympic Gameday -- Final Four!
Today's Schedule -- Final Four:#1 USA vs. #4 Finland, noon(!), NBC#6 Canada vs. #7 Slovakia, 6:30 pm, CNBC Today might be a tough day for Finnish hockey fans -- Team USA is a very good team, and the Finns haven't exactly excelled against good teams. They looked completely lost against the Swedes...
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