Just glad I was watching at home so nobody in public had to see me crying when they started skating around with the Gaudreau sweater. Also, is it true that losing BOTH the men's and women's final to the US is basically Canada's 9/11?
I wasn’t thinking at all when I posted that, I was keeping old things in mind like international rinks and rules.
That whole discussion just made me realize two things; I’m not a big hockey fan (unless it’s set up like today’s Olympic gold medal game), and it’s been a very, very long time since I’ve seen an NHL game go to OT.
As a BlueJackets fan, the first half of entire season was basically dominate the 1st & 2nd periods, give up a multi-goal lead in the 3rd, then lose in OT. Thankfully they finally fired the head coach, and the defensive assistant and brought in Rick Bowness to kick the team's ass back into gear. They're on a 7 game winning streak, and also have won 11 out of their last 12 going into the Olympic break, so we'll see if they can carry this momentum and actually make it into the playoff this year, which is something most people would've thought completely unimaginable just a couple of months ago.
I feel the pain of rooting for a shitty franchise— I’m a Sabres fan. They might make the playoffs for the first time in 17 years this year. It sucks we can’t go watch home games any more, this year we drove all the way to Ottawa to see them.