<p>Sid Crosby just blew his nose onto the ice. I hate it when athletes do that.</p>
<p>Congrats to the American team from a disappointed Canadian fan. Ryan Miller is unreal but your whole team played well. You were hungrier for the win then we were.</p>
<p>RE: Ryan Miller</p>
<p>Wow, if I didn’t know who he was, I would have thought he was Canadian. I thought I heard him say “aboat” rather than “about.” </p>
<p>He looked thinner than I remember. Good game, and apparently he was key.</p>
<p>USA! USA! I’ve never seen a highlight-reel empty net goal before. That was absolutely amazing.</p>
<p>USA hockey team gets a bye. Canada will have to play one of the lower-ranked teams, a game which they should win easily. Then again, they should have beaten Switzerland easily.</p>
<p>Funny, I just said that to my hockey crazy D about Miller’s accent. He sounds Canadian, though he’s from East Lansing and lives in Buffalo. Though I must say, being Buffalo born and bred, we have been known to tend towards “abo[o]at”…maybe its proximity to the border!</p>
<p>a very exciting game.</p>
<p>The ice dancing compulsories put me to sleep. But the US pair just woke me up. Wow, what a wonderful performance. Those lifts were almost on a par with the pairs skating, they looked so hard.</p>
<p>MILLER!!!</p>
<p>Best Olympic goalie performance since (gee, another Sabre goalie) Hasek in Nagano…</p>
<p>Brodeur was excellent as well…these two teams just may be meeting again, who knows?</p>
<p>USA USA USA USA! We just beat Canada at thier own sport.</p>
<p>Wow, I hoped for a great game and it sure was! Bravo to Ryan Miller. What a game he played, definitely the difference. Brodeur was really off his usual well-controlled game. My guess is that we’ll see Luongo in the next one. Congrats to the American team! Someone please tell Bob Costas that we will not be in mourning tomorrow. :)</p>
<p>Ski cross - :eek: :eek: :eek:</p>
<p>The Aborigines were hideous. I loved the Johnny Cash routine. Such fun!</p>
<p>Such sad news… just read the 55-year old mother of one of the Canadian figure skaters died today, just a day after arriving in Vancouver prior to her daughter’s competition, which is scheduled to begin in two days. She’s still going to compete! Good for her! But how devastating.</p>
<p>[Canadian</a> figure skating star’s mother dies | NBC Olympics](<a href=“http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid=436004.html?__source=msnhomepage&cid=]Canadian”>http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-features/news/newsid=436004.html?__source=msnhomepage&cid=)</p>
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<p>Heck, we’re in the same time zone out west, and I’m not sure NBC has shown a single second of the Olympics live.</p>
<p>The Olympics is pretty much the only time I watch hockey, and I was not disappointed by the USA v. Canada game. Great game. And these are the same guys who play in the NHL. But in an NHL the game would have been interrupted repeatedly by fights. Why doesn’t the NHL adopt Olympic rules and enforcement? They’d be a much more popular pro sport.</p>
<p>Ice Dancing: when I saw the aborigine/Russian pair begin their act I thought: “If it hasn’t already, this ‘sport’ just jumped the shark.”</p>
<p>One more thing: Bode Miller. Four years I was one of the many who were trashing him, not for failing to win all the gold medals he was hyped to win, but for his lousy attitude and defiant partying - basically for putting his own good times ahead of his sport and letting his team and the public down in the process. </p>
<p>I must say I like him a lot better this time. He seems to have matured and is conducting himself much more admirably. Now with winning the gold medal his redemption is complete; although he had already gained my respect regardless of how many or what color medals he won this time.</p>
<p>Agree about Bode Miller and the ice dancing. I liked the two U Mich sophomores; they had so much fun, unlike the Russians. The Brits who danced to Johnny Cash were also fun to watch.</p>
<p>We used to go to Buffalo for the weekend, runnersmon, when I was young. 
How time has changed.</p>
<p>The loss to the US hockey team is just the last of a series of misses by Canadian athletes in this Olympics. Unlike Americans who are taught to win at a young age, we are taught how to loss gracefully, just like the British. Pretty sad if you ask me.</p>
<p>What a great hockey game last night!! I think that early US goal really got to Broudeur. The US played with such intensity it was fun to watch. Anyone think it might be another USA/Russian match-up for the gold??</p>
<p>Definitely “Miller Time” yesterday in Vancouver as Bode won gold & US goalie Ryan Miller played an amazing game. </p>
<p>I agree, coureur, about how much better the game is when fighting isn’t tolerated. There has been a big improvement, however, in the NHL in this regard since rules were changed in 2005. (And LOL on your “jumped the shark” comment about the ice dancers–my S said the only word to describe the Russian’s outfits is “redonkulous”.)</p>
<p>I’m not optimistic, but it would be nice if the press (and NBC especially) respected Joannie Rochette’s need for privacy this week. And nice if NBC could refrain from making this one of their heartrending vignettes, in between commercials. So sad for her, and at the thought of how proud and happy her mother would have been to see her daughter skate at the Olympics. Dick Button said something so sweet and insightful about the loss, that the hardest thing would be not to have her mother there to say “thank you” to. My condolences to her family.</p>