Russia vs Canada is going to be a great game to watch, providing NBC doesn't f*ck it up.

/And assuming Canada beats Germany first...

MBFGeek: And assuming Canada beats Germany first...

Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

MBFGeek: /And assuming Canada beats Germany first...

Yeah, Germany really hasn't played as well as they're capable of so far in this tourney, either. If they bring their "A" game, it won't be easy for Canada.

MBFGeek: Russia vs Canada is going to be a great game to watch, providing NBC doesn't f*ck it up.

What does this even mean?

NBC has been airing all hockey games, with very very minimal interruption on MSNBC/CNBC.

Hockey has it's own goddamn channel, where NBC is pointedly *not* f*cking it up and people are biatching that they want it on the Broadcast Network?? Why?? So we can hear Bob Costas cut back and forth from hockey to figure skating every 5 minutes?

Christ people, be careful what you wish for. Think a bit.

kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

ghall3: MBFGeek: Russia vs Canada is going to be a great game to watch, providing NBC doesn't f*ck it up.

They'd have to be interested in airing it first.

It's not like they own the rights to the Stanly Cup Finals either, so why would they want people to get excited about ice hockey?

Settle down, MSNBC will air it on tape delay right after a rerun of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator.

rka: NBC has been airing all hockey games, with very very minimal interruption on MSNBC/CNBC.

Hockey has it's own goddamn channel, where NBC is pointedly *not* f*cking it up and people are biatching that they want it on the Broadcast Network?? Why?? So we can hear Bob Costas cut back and forth from hockey to figure skating every 5 minutes?

Christ people, be careful what you wish for. Think a bit.

My only beef is that I'd like to see the games in HD, but that's a minor problem given how well MSNBC has covered the games. They aren't even going to commercials during the TV timeouts, I love it...

kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Nice! :)

tommyl66: My only beef is that I'd like to see the games in HD

Where do you live? The basic HD package thru Comcast where I'm at comes with all the news channels (and a slew of other cable channels) in HD.

I wasn't exactly pining to see Keith Olbermann in HD, but now I'm pretty stoked to have MSNBC covered in ye olde high def.

ghall3: MBFGeek: Russia vs Canada is going to be a great game to watch, providing NBC doesn't f*ck it up.

They'd have to be interested in airing it first.

It's not like they own the rights to the Stanly Cup Finals either, so why would they want people to get excited about ice hockey?

Oh Christ, this again.

kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

Killer Cars: tommyl66: My only beef is that I'd like to see the games in HD

Where do you live? The basic HD package thru Comcast where I'm at comes with all the news channels (and a slew of other cable channels) in HD.

I wasn't exactly pining to see Keith Olbermann in HD, but now I'm pretty stoked to have MSNBC covered in ye olde high def.

Comcast Minneapolis doesn't carry MSNBC HD.

rka: What does this even mean?

NBC has been airing all hockey games, with very very minimal interruption on MSNBC/CNBC.

Hockey has it's own goddamn channel, where NBC is pointedly *not* f*cking it up and people are biatching that they want it on the Broadcast Network?? Why?? So we can hear Bob Costas cut back and forth from hockey to figure skating every 5 minutes?

Christ people, be careful what you wish for. Think a bit.

Here's what it means:

Having the games for most viewers in standard instead of guaranteed HD.
Having the games aired three hours after the fact in a world where information is instantaneous.
Having commercials that are 30 seconds long during a break in the action that is 10 seconds long.
Having Pierre McGuire farking up the broadcast instead of off somewhere farking goats.
Having intermission and post-game journalists who barely know what a puck is.
Having the game start late (even tape delayed) and making people watch 20 minutes of women's curling.

Since everything is tape-delayed anyway, there's no reason to cut into coverage with other non-live events. 60 million people had to watch MSNBC. That's better ratings than American Idol got that night. NBC could have aired the hockey games on Sunday live, and still done their ice dancing tape-delayed later. Hell, they cut to the end of the US/Canada game because they realized how bad they farked up.

NBC is absolutely farking this up by ignoring common sense and trying to squeeze every penny out of the Olympics.

oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

You mean when a Canadian team of NHL All-Stars beat a team of professional Soviet players?

Quite an accomplishment for the nation that spawned the farking game.

kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help do 90% of the work and suffer 95% of the injuries.

There.

Yanks_RSJ: oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

You mean when a Canadian team of NHL All-Stars beat a team of professional Soviet players?

Quite an accomplishment for the nation that spawned the farking game.

Obviously as a Yankee fan you wouldnt know an amazing comeback if you saw one. Unless of course it was being played in Boston...

rka: NBC has been airing all hockey games, with very very minimal interruption on MSNBC/CNBC.

Hockey has it's own goddamn channel, where NBC is pointedly *not* f*cking it up and people are biatching that they want it on the Broadcast Network?? Why?? So we can hear Bob Costas cut back and forth from hockey to figure skating every 5 minutes?

Christ people, be careful what you wish for. Think a bit.

Some of these people are so farking stupid, it's baffling. Every game of the entire hockey tournament has been broadcast live with limited (or no) interruption.

The mere idea that NBC would blow off the millions of dollars in ad revenue they make in primetime simply to show hockey that the vast majority of people could give two shiats about shows such a fundamental lack of understanding it's not even worth discussing anymore.

Since when is 4-3-1 an ass-kicking?

Yanks_RSJ: The mere idea that NBC would blow off the millions of dollars in ad revenue they make in primetime simply to show hockey that the vast majority of people could give two shiats about shows such a fundamental lack of understanding it's not even worth discussing anymore.

The new talking points seem to be HD (which is an individual cable company decision not to carry MSNBC in HD) and for some baffling reason, Pierre McQuire buggering farm animals.

poisonedpawn78: Obviously as a Yankee fan you wouldnt know an amazing comeback if you saw one. Unless of course it was being played in Boston...

Wow, 2004 jokes. Why not bring up the 1960 World Series if you want to talk about ancient history?

The fact remains, a team of Canadian NHL All-Stars beat the Soviets. Trying to compare that to a team of college kids, most of whom never sniffed the NHL, beating them on Olympic ice is absurd.

But whatever, own that podium.

Killer Cars: Where do you live? The basic HD package thru Comcast where I'm at comes with all the news channels (and a slew of other cable channels) in HD.

I wasn't exactly pining to see Keith Olbermann in HD, but now I'm pretty stoked to have MSNBC covered in ye olde high def.

I'm outside of Boston and for some reason I don't get MSNBC in high-definition, yet a friend in another suburb does. I guess maybe I'm not on Comcast's super-duper-high-def plan or something. On the bright side I think I get CNBC in HD so the Canada-Russia game will be good to go...

rka: Yanks_RSJ: The mere idea that NBC would blow off the millions of dollars in ad revenue they make in primetime simply to show hockey that the vast majority of people could give two shiats about shows such a fundamental lack of understanding it's not even worth discussing anymore.

The new talking points seem to be HD (which is an individual cable company decision not to carry MSNBC in HD) and for some baffling reason, Pierre McQuire buggering farm animals.

Because the alternative is the soul crushing realization that more people do, in fact, care about Figure Skating and things that used to be in the X-games than they do about Olympic hockey. I was introduced to hockey over the last year and now I really enjoy it, but I also know that for my share of viewership, there's thousands of middle age women who really do, in fact, want to hear how some Eastern European ate dirt at 5am and sold his body as a sex worker to pay for rink time to do Ice Dancing, or whatever the sob story of the day is.

oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

There's that awesome Canadian inferiority complex we've all grown to love so much. Keep it up and maybe someday people might actually start giving a shiat about Canada.

You also gotta love how saying shiat like "We Canadians are a dignified people unlike you fat rude lazy asshole Americans" every five minutes equates to acting dignified to them. Sounds like a bunch of passive aggressive crybaby bullshiat to me.

Now go ahead and tell me about how the canadians British burned down the White House in 1812. That never gets old. It's got to suck when your proudest moment wasn't even really you. That's like Al Bundy bragging about his dad scoring five touchdowns in one game.

/if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

Yanks_RSJ: oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

You mean when a Canadian team of NHL All-Stars beat a team of professional Soviet players?

Quite an accomplishment for the nation that spawned the farking game.

It was invented in Scotland but please, continue making an idiot of yourself. It amuses me.

Olympics ...WHAT YA GONNA DO WHEN USA HOCKEY RUNS WILD ON YOU!???????? BROTHER

oldfarthenry: It was invented in Scotland but please, continue making an idiot of yourself. It amuses me.

Yeah, if you're talking about shinty, you're right. The modern game of hockey was invented in Canada, which is why all you pricks have such a ridiculous sense of entitlement about the gold medal.

You've also yet to dispute my point that comparing NHL All-Stars to college kids is patently absurd. But hey, when you don't like the way the conversation is going, just keep changing the subject.

MoeSzyslak: oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

There's that awesome Canadian inferiority complex we've all grown to love so much. Keep it up and maybe someday people might actually start giving a shiat about Canada.

You also gotta love how saying shiat like "We Canadians are a dignified people unlike you fat rude lazy asshole Americans" every five minutes equates to acting dignified to them. Sounds like a bunch of passive aggressive crybaby bullshiat to me.

Now go ahead and tell me about how the canadians British burned down the White House in 1812. That never gets old. It's got to suck when your proudest moment wasn't even really you. That's like Al Bundy bragging about his dad scoring five touchdowns in one game.

/if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

Sports the USA owns the podium own:

- Obesity
- Complacency towards it's own blatantly corrupt government
- Killing for money
- Sticking it's nose into other peoples / nations business
- Being hated on by the rest of the world
- The worst "first world" education and health care system out there
- Driving a car around the same track over and over and over again (NASCAR)
+ alot of other good stuff


Why don't you just shut your trapper and start working on that astronomical debt all of you "winners" have been accruing? You guys don't really "own" anything, but debt.

That's it.

MoeSzyslak: oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

There's that awesome Canadian inferiority complex we've all grown to love so much. Keep it up and maybe someday people might actually start giving a shiat about Canada.

You also gotta love how saying shiat like "We Canadians are a dignified people unlike you fat rude lazy asshole Americans" every five minutes equates to acting dignified to them. Sounds like a bunch of passive aggressive crybaby bullshiat to me.

Now go ahead and tell me about how the canadians British burned down the White House in 1812. That never gets old. It's got to suck when your proudest moment wasn't even really you. That's like Al Bundy bragging about his dad scoring five touchdowns in one game.

/if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! What an (stereotypically American) asshole!

PrinceofFark: Why don't you just shut your trapper and start working on that astronomical debt all of you "winners" have been accruing? You guys don't really "own" anything, but debt.

That's it.

Nobody told your olympic committee to create unrealistic expectations for your "athletes." Relax and take the ribbing like a man, you've earned it.

lunchinlewis: MoeSzyslak: /if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

USA beat Canada in the World Juniors this year, and now we've sent their Olympic team to the loser's bracket before they can even sniff a medal. Yeah, they're not happy about it.

Um, you know you haven't won a medal yet? Right? If Russia kicks your ass in the next game, it's star-spangled butthurt and tears.

oldfarthenry: kronicfeld: oldfarthenry: Hell, we kicked their ass in WWI & II. This should be the same (blood-bath wise).

Yeah, but Russia won't be on the ice to help.

Actually, we kicked Russia's ass in '72. We didn't make six movies about it or claimed that it was a `miracle' from God or any over-hyped sh*t like you're prone to. We try to act dignified as opposed to assholic.

I take it you don't speak for Canada. Because your posts are anything but dignified. They're all assholic.

oldfarthenry: lunchinlewis: MoeSzyslak: /if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

USA beat Canada in the World Juniors this year, and now we've sent their Olympic team to the loser's bracket before they can even sniff a medal. Yeah, they're not happy about it.

Um, you know you haven't won a medal yet? Right? If Russia kicks your ass in the next game, it's star-spangled butthurt and tears.

Speaking of people who have no idea what they're talking about.

oldfarthenry: Um, you know you haven't won a medal yet? Right? If Russia kicks your ass in the next game, it's star-spangled butthurt and tears.

You're just upset and bitter Hnat Domenichelli spurned the Canadians and joined the Swiss team.

It's understandable. Completely different team with him on roster.

Yanks_RSJ: PrinceofFark: Why don't you just shut your trapper and start working on that astronomical debt all of you "winners" have been accruing? You guys don't really "own" anything, but debt.

That's it.

Nobody told your olympic committee to create unrealistic expectations for your "athletes." Relax and take the ribbing like a man, you've earned it.

Things that come out of your mouth as you see them: ribbing

Things that come out of your mouth to everyone else: typical US blowhard

Back to hockey, I have to give kudos to the US team for capitalizing on it's chances vs Canada. I think both teams will medal, so i'm not overly concerned.

The biggest difference here is that when Canada wins, it focuses on the patriotic aspects of the victory, and thats indicative in how Canada celebrates.

When the US wins, everyone just groans at the prospect of hearing the country blather on about how good they are, while shoving a Big Mac down their gullets.

Explains alot.

Yanks_RSJ: oldfarthenry: lunchinlewis: MoeSzyslak: /if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

USA beat Canada in the World Juniors this year, and now we've sent their Olympic team to the loser's bracket before they can even sniff a medal. Yeah, they're not happy about it.

Um, you know you haven't won a medal yet? Right? If Russia kicks your ass in the next game, it's star-spangled butthurt and tears.

Speaking of people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Care to explain (if you can stop eating long enough to speak without spraying food everywhere)?

Set up as a Crosby vs Ovechkin troll, but gets a USA vs Canada treatment...SWEET.

lunchinlewis: Yanks_RSJ: Speaking of people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Yeah, I don't think that's how the seeding works.

Yeah, it's isn't. The USA gets Switzerland/Belarus. Russia is sitting there waiting to see if Canada can manage to win their game against Germany.

He's a clueless idiot anyway, so I'm not surprised that he's completely unaware of the actual draw.

oldfarthenry: Um, you know you haven't won a medal yet? Right? If Russia kicks your ass in the next game, it's star-spangled butthurt and tears.

I think the US would have reason to be upset if they lost to Russia in the next game, considering they should have played the winner of the Switzerland-Belarus game...

(Insert slashy about getting a brain here, moran)

oldfarthenry: Care to explain (if you can stop eating long enough to speak without spraying food everywhere)?

Gladly.

The US can only play Russia in the gold medal game. Canada will have to beat them (assuming they beat Germany tonight) to have any chance at a medal.

You fail at understanding the tournament draw.

oldfarthenry: Yanks_RSJ: oldfarthenry: lunchinlewis: MoeSzyslak: /if crying about the USA was an Olympic sport Canada would own the podium

USA beat Canada in the World Juniors this year, and now we've sent their Olympic team to the loser's bracket before they can even sniff a medal. Yeah, they're not happy about it.

Um, you know you haven't won a medal yet? Right? If Russia kicks your ass in the next game, it's star-spangled butthurt and tears.

Speaking of people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Care to explain (if you can stop eating long enough to speak without spraying food everywhere)?

Canada will face Russia before the US will (if at all, if CAN beats RUS the US-RUS game will never happen).

Yanks_RSJ: You fail at understanding the tournament draw.

To be fair, since to some Canadians it was supposed to be their birthright to just show up at the gold medal game, taking the time to understand the brackets I'm sure just seems like such a silly proposition.

Killer Cars: Yanks_RSJ: You fail at understanding the tournament draw.

To be fair, since to some Canadians it was supposed to be their birthright to just show up at the gold medal game, taking the time to understand the brackets I'm sure just seems like such a silly proposition.

And hey, I hope he's right about us facing Russia. Means we're guaranteed no worse than a silver medal, and he'll have four years to cry in his poutine about not getting any medal.

But I guess it won't matter, since someone in Scotland once slapped a rock around on some ice with a tree branch.