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.
Losing to USA has been a three-decade thing since Glenn Sather thought reuniting the Edmonton Oilers more than a decade after their prime was a good idea and Mike Richter and a younger, faster USA team deservingly won the World Cup in 1996. Canadian fans would be smart to not get snooty and be happy with the silver and a great gold medal game. You win. You lose.
ArtButMakeItSports is a fun novelty account that elevates to genius by just how fucking deep his art history knowledge is. What an insane fucking pull: https://x.com/ArtButSports/status/2025607438343287007
This is a really good interview with the guy behind the account and his whole "process" of how he finds his art.