Friday, February 26, 2010

2010 Winter Olympics Day 16 Men's Ice Hockey Open Thread

Bronze Medal Game: #4 Finland vs. #7 Slovakia 10:00 (MSNBC - Kenny Albert and Joe Micheletti)

I will be in Washington DC tomorrow, returning right around the start of game, give or take an hour or so. And when I do get back, I will have to deal with the fun of switching between the Villanova and Syracuse game, which starts at 9:00.

The Finns got their asses whooped by the States in a bloodbath first period and Slovakia played like zombies for two periods only to wake up in the 3rd and nearly send Team Canada to overtime. In fact, if Demitra did not miss an open net, there is a chance Canada could be meeting the Finland in this game. But it's Finland and Slovakia and even if my return time is unknown, you should still do it to it in the comments section.

47 comments:

  1. I'm back!

    Nova is losing by 10 at the half after leading by 6 not to long ago. Boo.

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  2. Salo scored to make it 1-0 Finland.

    End of 1st period.

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  3. Gaborik scored for Slovakia to tie it at 1.

    Micheletti is now completely hard.

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  4. HOSSA SCORES ON THE 5-ON-3 CHANCE! 2-1 SLOVAKIA!

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  5. That was a terrible PP afterwards by SLovakia.

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  6. Oof. Branko Radivojevic just got a double minor.

    I miss him on the Flyers. His name is tons of fun to say.

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  7. Demetra scores short-handed! 3-1 Slovakia!

    If that happened last night, may not have lost.

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  8. Brilliant shorthanded goal from Slovakia. Demitra! 3-1!

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  9. 3-1 Slovakia after 2.

    Slovakia has never gotten an olympic medal in a team sport? Ever?

    That's surprising.

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  10. Yeah this would be a surprise bronze.

    Canada just clinched most gold medals for the Olympics. They owned the podium!

    Meanwhile the US is owning silver and bronze!

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  11. Okay NBC I'm sick of Lindsey Vonn. Enough!

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  12. @ SSR: No They just owned the top of the podium. The U.S. owned the rest of it. ;-)

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  13. Yeah but we're the only country that goes by total medal count. We should win that every Olympics. ;-)


    13 gold > 14 silver and 13 bronze in value. At least that's what the markets read...

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  14. You mean to say that Jamaica has no business winning the most gold medals in the winter Olympics? ;-)

    In all seriousness though, I would take the 13 gold over the 14 silver and 13 bronze in a heartbeat.

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  15. 5 on 3 for Finland the next 1:26.

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  16. DEFLECTED SHOT GOES IN FOR FINLAND! 3-2!

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  17. TIMONEN'S SHOT IS DEFLECTED IN!!!!!!!!

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  18. Once again, white stuff has shown up in Joe Micheletti's pants....

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  19. JOKINEN ON THE BREAKAWAY!!! 4-3!

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  20. 3 goals in 3 minutes in 35 seconds for Finland? Wow. If only they could have done that against the USA.....

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  22. @ kt: They could have done it to Tim Thomas in the last 10 minutes....

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  23. Am I a bad person for finding amusement in Captain Janks' prank calls of serious news coverages? He got a Hawaii affiliate today.

    Hey, if they are dumb enough to not screen well enough and let him through......

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  24. @ SSR: He is no where near as good as Miller though.

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  25. Seriously these call screeners are just bad at their jobs.

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  26. this power play could be the Slovaks last chance

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  27. Wow! Slovakia PP with 3:18 left.

    Sidney Crosby would be proud of Marion Hossa for that dive.

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  28. What? Demitra just made a bad play at the end of the game? No! You're kidding!

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  29. Kiprusoff with another big save!

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  30. EMPTY NET GOAL BY FILLPULA AFTER A FANTASTIC PASS BY TIMONEN!!! THE BRONZE GOES TO FINLAND!!!

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  31. One game left.

    USA vs. Canada for the gold in less than 15 hours! I'm pumped!

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  32. And now in news sure to disturb Flyers fans greatly: Lasse Kukkonen has an Olympic medal.

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  33. 4 current Flyers (Timonen, Richards, Pronger, Bartulis) went to this year's Olympics and 3 of them are going to walk away with medals (Timonen, Richards, Pronger). We are quite an economical bunch when it comes to the Olympics.

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