2010 Vancouver Olympics

[thebruce44]

And anything where scoring involves both time and judging needs to be thrown out. As much as I hate judging, I get the history and tradition of it, but pick time or judging for determining medals, not both.

That really doesn't make any sense for a sport like moguls.

[RobertR]

A curling win! The long national nightmare is over.

 

Robert

[crewcrazy]

I'm more interested in Sunday's USA/Canada men's hockey match up than any NHL game, but maybe that's because I'm a man without a team. The atmosphere should be insane.

[paul253]

Definitely excited for the hockey game tonight. I love watching the curling too, but its been awfully frustrating watching the US teams this olympics. I could personally watch the US women's team all day because I have a ridiculous crush on one of the curlers (I'll let you guys figure out which one) but it seems like their final curlers are missing a TON of shots. The US could have had a 2-0 lead vs Canada today but the girl missed the shot and it was all down hill from there. And the men lost their first 4 games on last shot misses. It reminds me of watching Marquette blow game after game because they couldn't make free throws.

[BrewCrewForever]

Not super big into hockey, but I'm really pumped for the US vs Canada game tonight. Would be great to see the US team upset the home country.

[TooLiveBrew]

I'll echo you three -- not big into hockey aside from the fact that I love seeing UW hockey in person. I have a basic understanding of the game, but nothing special. I'm super-excited for the game tonight http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[trwi7]

Today has been great for me. I'm currently watching the Admirals game which started at 4. By the time that game is done, the US/Canada game should just be starting. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Buckylovesbeer]

Lets go USA!!!! This afternoon's Russia vs. Czech Republic was a great warmup. They also had a ton of Miracle on Ice stuff going on, which always is great to watch.

[BrewCrewForever]

That score in under a minute was great. Go USA!

[packfan79]

For some reason I assumed that NBC would show the game in primetime in HD, instead they are showing stuff that happened this afternoon and showing the hockey game on MSNBC, some more brilliant planning by NBC.

[jimmyjeromehardy7]

What did you expect packfan, them not show hockey for 3 hours in prime time when they have figure skating to show. They make sure they show ever routine in that sport but cover the rest in about 10 minutes.

[logan82]

So they show the Russian/Czech Republic game on NBC and ice dancing at night. Is there any wonder that I have little or no interest in the Olympics.

[TheCrew07]

All I can say is WOW I LOVE OLYMPIC HOCKEY!

[Schlitz001]

I can't believe that all this figure skating is better for NBC's ratings. I'd rather watch women's curling than figure skating.....come to to think of it I'd rather watch women's curling than NBA basketball so maybe that's not saying much.

[trwi7]

Ryan Miller is a tremendous goaltender. That is all I have to say. He's been amazing for the Sabres this year and he was amazing in this game.

[razzzorsharp]

All the curling action got my cousin and I to make a curling rink(?) and we held "The First Annual DPD Kiel Curling Classic" using milk jugs as our stones.

 

Some pics of the rink...

 

http://www.flickr.com/pho...36610638@N04/4376705199/

[jjkoestler]

Awesome day for hockey. I'm not a big hockey fan, but both games today were great. Folks are going crazy up here in Alaska.

[jjkoestler]

My buddies and I are having a discussion about the USA win over Canada so I thought I pose the same question to the BF community. What is bigger news? A USA win, or a Canada loss?

[Buckylovesbeer]

Awesome game and a great win! I think its bigger news that Canada lost.....Eh?

[TooLiveBrew]

Ryan Miller is a tremendous goaltender. That is all I have to say. He's been amazing for the Sabres this year and he was amazing in this game.

He had me up off my seat numerous times tonight. What an amazing win -- outshot 45 to 22, but fortunately we blocked off our net with a heaping serving of awesome. I still can't believe Canada didn't come up with the equalizer in that flurry on the US end prior to Kesler's empty-netter.

Ed Olczyk said it best. Tonight's game was "tremendously tremendous"

[BrewCrewForever]

I dont know if I have personally witnessed a more exciting hockey game. It had me the entire 60 minutes.

[theavrock]

The Canada loss for sure. I mean its on their money for god's sake. Hockey is arguably the fourth most popular sport in the US. Its nice to see but nowhere near the meaning down here than it means up there.

[Jimbo]

I see the American ski coach is the same. You can hear him in the start house.

 

If they would have put that hockey game on NBC on prime time, it would have been a ratings flop. People want to see figure skating, and they want to see the other sports. Remember that figure skating is the second most watched televised sport. I believe NHL playoff games are lucky to get 2.0 ratings. I wanted to catch the hockey game, but other things came up and I only saw the final seven minutes.

[JoeHova]

The Canada loss for sure. I mean its on their money for god's sake. Hockey is arguably the fourth most popular sport in the US. Its nice to see but nowhere near the meaning down here than it means up there.

I think much lower than 4th. In addition to the big 3, I would say stock car racing and golf are definitely more popular. Tennis, open wheel racing and soccer have a case too. Then there are things where if there's a big event, there will be a lot of interest but it's hard to gauge just how popular they are overall like mma, boxing, figure skating, other olympic events, etc.

[logan82]

It wasn't figure skating that was on though. It was ice dancing, you know, the sport like figure skating for less athletic people.