USA Hockey team

FTGV

NJPOLKER wrote: »

OHHHHH GOD and I went to church this morning too!!

LoL

How do the Canadians feel about that? I'm Curious

As a hockey fan I want to see it played at the highest level with the best players.

nbrowser wrote: »

.what happened in the USA/Finland game...that was a shocker of epic proportions in my books.

Yep thats going to leave a mark.I guess the loss to the guys in red shirts left them drained and demoralised.

ViperZ

NJPOLKER wrote: »

OHHHHH GOD and I went to church this morning too!! They played well that's all I have to say about that LOL

Regardless of this Olympics I really believe they shouldn't allow pro's to compete in the future Olympics.

How do the Canadians feel about that? I'm Curious

I actually completely agree. Olympics are for amateurs, not professionals. IMHO, U20 teams should play in the Olympics instead of Pro's.

FTGV, having pro's to play is very much against the Olympics spirit. Now they are trying to push professional boxers into summer Olympics, which I think is just stupid.

We have to remember what the Olympics is all about. It's not about money, but in our commercial world, that's all the Olympic committees are trying to do. Remove wrestling and put golf/baseball/darts/whatever instead of it. Seriously?! That's one of the original Greek Olympics sports.

ViperZ

xcapri79 wrote: »

While the Olympics aspires to many noble ideals of fairness, sportsmanship and making the world a better place, it is also about competition. It awards symbolic medals for first, second and third place. It is meant to be the best against the best. All this is part of the Olympic spirit. Whether one is professional or amateur is a matter of definition as the Eastern Europeans and Soviets proved in the past. We are well past that now.

I agree though that removing wrestling from the Olympics is absolutely ridiculous. As noted, it has been a core sport of the Olympics since its ancient beginnings.

I'd like to see a proof where USSR provided professional (i.e. money-making) athletes to the Games, as there were no real paid sports in that country, besides soccer and hockey (way way below NHL salaries).

IMHO, for hockey you'll never make it fair and square, as NHL owners will pull their players out of it most likely - they don't want to lose their players to injuries and not get compensated (and their team loses a major piece - i.e. Tavares).