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potter · 02-22-2010, 03:16 PM

That actually makes me wonder why so many Canadians aren't happy about getting to see such a good game like that. I see the avalanche lose sometimes, but if it's a good game I'm still happy to have seen a good game and to have seen the avs play well. Even if they didn't win...

LiveDose · 02-22-2010, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by SleazyDream

Not sure if you have seen this ad, but for 2 months on most EVERY Canadian TV channel you can't go 5 mins without seeing this commercial.

I'm not a hockey guy. I'll probably watch 5 full hockey games in my life. Tonight was one of them. This event is engraved into our culture. This was home town advantage.

Tonight's game seriously sent my entire town, actually country into depression. Everyone I know hockey fan or not is distraught. You can actually feel the mood here. It's sad.

rub it in.... it's not just a game here.....

Makes it all the sweeter for us down here...

CDSmith · 02-22-2010, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by potter

That actually makes me wonder why so many Canadians aren't happy about getting to see such a good game like that. I see the avalanche lose sometimes, but if it's a good game I'm still happy to have seen a good game and to have seen the avs play well. Even if they didn't win...

It's because there's just no pleasing some folks unless that "great game" also comes with a win. And even then they bitch about the details. Thankfully you would likely be surprised just how few of those types there are up here. There may be talk that Canadians are angered/saddened/heartbroken over this game etc etc, but I'd wager most of us actually do think it was just that -- an incredible game, super exciting, one we could just as easily have won if not for a hot goaltender and a few less mistakes on our part.

Me, I'm quite happy with the way Canada played for the most part. We were all over the US's end of the ice for much of the game, had WAY more scoring chances, the shots on goal weren't even close and very lopsided towards Canada. It just wasn't our night, but if we can play like that in the next several games AND remove those few critical errors we have every chance in the world of coming out of this with the gold medal.

In short, absolutely correct it was a great game. One of the best of the tournament so far, maybe THE best.

kane · 02-22-2010, 03:55 PM

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yeah I know. I though it would be 'Shit and Piss on My Face Happy Time Fun Hour'

LOL. This post just made my day.

SleazyDream · 02-22-2010, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by kane

Just did some reading. It looks like the share ( so in this case 73%) is the number of people who are watching TV at that moment. So with this Super Bowl 49.1% of all TV equipped households were watching that game and 73% of all TVs that were on during that game were tuned to that game.

I reading some other articles it says that the super bowl from a couple of years ago with the Steelers and Cardinals playing was the most watched Super Bowl ever. They report that that game had an average 98.7 million viewers and at its peak it had 151 million viewers. So on the average that would be around 1 in 3 people in the US watching the game, but when it peaked it was around 1 in 2.

that makes sense

SleazyDream · 02-22-2010, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by amacontent

Its Canadas game BUT

We neat them in the World Juniors
We Beat them in the OLympics

We win the CUPS

The times they are a changing.

But you guys have us beat in curling. Thats a chcik magnet sport for sure.

bastard

bushwacker · 02-22-2010, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by CosmicTang

How many fatalities happen on a golf course?

So that makes it a sport? FYI, numerous people are struck and killed by lightning every year while golfing.

SleazyDream · 02-22-2010, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

It's because there's just no pleasing some folks unless that "great game" also comes with a win. And even then they bitch about the details. Thankfully you would likely be surprised just how few of those types there are up here. There may be talk that Canadians are angered/saddened/heartbroken over this game etc etc, but I'd wager most of us actually do think it was just that -- an incredible game, super exciting, one we could just as easily have won if not for a hot goaltender and a few less mistakes on our part.

Me, I'm quite happy with the way Canada played for the most part. We were all over the US's end of the ice for much of the game, had WAY more scoring chances, the shots on goal weren't even close and very lopsided towards Canada. It just wasn't our night, but if we can play like that in the next several games AND remove those few critical errors we have every chance in the world of coming out of this with the gold medal.

In short, absolutely correct it was a great game. One of the best of the tournament so far, maybe THE best.

you're right - it was an AMAZING game

Mutt · 02-22-2010, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Evil Chris

That commercial only gives you the tip of the iceberg.

I remember the 1972 Canada/Russia Summit Series and how people stopped whatever they were doing and watched every one of those 8 games.

so do I - i was in elementary school - game 8 against the Soviets in 1972 was like nothing anybody in any country will ever experience, World Cup soccer finals included. an entire country shut down, like a nuclear bomb had dropped and wiped out civilization - the streets were empty - schools gathered in the gymnasium or lunchroom watching the game on those crappy black and white TV sets on the tall rolling stand. and when Paul Henderson scored to win game 8 it was bedlam, we just ran out of the school like we were on fire into the playground and ran and jumped and the same was going on in every office, store, home, hospital, government building. The Miracle on Ice in 1980 was similar but it was the USA, and hockey is a niche novelty sport to most Americans. To Canadians it's the single most important part of Canadian culture, definitely in 1972 and the circumstances of it being the first time the Canadian NHL stars had ever met the Soviet Union - everybody in Canada before the series started laughed at the Soviets, their shitty equipment, their shitty goaltender Tretriak and thought it would be a sweep of 10-1 games.

i hate getting old but i'm so glad I was alive and old enough to appreciate what happened in September of 1972.

SleazyDream · 02-22-2010, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Mutt

so do I - i was in elementary school - game 8 against the Soviets in 1972 was like nothing anybody in any country will ever experience, World Cup soccer finals included. an entire country shut down, like a nuclear bomb had dropped and wiped out civilization - the streets were empty - schools gathered in the gymnasium or lunchroom watching the game on those crappy black and white TV sets on the tall rolling stand. and when Paul Henderson scored to win game 8 it was bedlam, we just ran out of the school like we were on fire into the playground and ran and jumped and the same was going on in every office, store, home, hospital, government building. The Miracle on Ice in 1980 was similar but it was the USA, and hockey is a niche novelty sport to most Americans. To Canadians it's the single most important part of Canadian culture, definitely in 1972 and the circumstances of it being the first time the Canadian NHL stars had ever met the Soviet Union - everybody in Canada before the series started laughed at the Soviets, their shitty equipment, their shitty goaltender Tretriak and thought it would be a sweep of 10-1 games.

i hate getting old but i'm so glad I was alive and old enough to appreciate what happened in September of 1972.

i was alive but had just been born in july........

SleazyDream · 02-22-2010, 09:08 PM

coke is paying me to bump this thread

tehHinjew · 02-22-2010, 09:10 PM

bah we have luongo in nets tomorow, then keep him in for the next game, were gonna make a nice comback

georgeyw · 02-22-2010, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SleazyDream

when i think about it - that's 49% of households - and not everyone in a household watches...

the stats I heard on TV tonight was 1 in 2 Canadians is watching, not just households.... but i can't find a reference for that now.

The stats you heard? As in the guy commentating the game ?

kane · 02-22-2010, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tehHinjew

bah we have luongo in nets tomorow, then keep him in for the next game, were gonna make a nice comback

Looks like Canada got the rough rode. They have to play Germany to get in. Then they get Russia in the first round. Not a easy task.

fuzebox · 02-22-2010, 10:42 PM

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bah we have luongo in nets tomorow, then keep him in for the next game, were gonna make a nice comback

Lu will carry em.

D Ghost · 02-22-2010, 10:46 PM

damn thats fucked up... go U.S.A!

SleazyDream · 02-22-2010, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by kane

Looks like Canada got the rough rode. They have to play Germany to get in. Then they get Russia in the first round. Not a easy task.

historically Russia is the worst (best) competitor Canada has in hockey.

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