Only thing worse than a poor winner is a poor loser.
If canada woulda won he wouldn't have said one damned word about the OT rules.
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Poor sportsmanship starts from the top
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The Fish Rots From the Head Down.
I agree.
However, I loathe and despise the 3-on-3 format.
WAAAAAAAAAAH!
OHHHH CRYNADA!!!
The US played by the same rules as Canada. Better to not say anything than to make specious points.
There is not enough cheese in France to go with all that whine.
Also the Crynada head coach didn’t bitch and moan when Team Crynada won a 3v3 OT in the quarterfinals.
Uhhhhhh....soooooo.....what is he saying? Because of the exchange rate 3 American players are worth more than 3 Canadian players?
All I can say is that he knew the Olympic rules as well as the US did. He took his team there knowing that. They could have scored the first goal in overtime and won the gold. The point is, that didn’t happen.
Canada has a great team, but the US won under the Olympic rules. Deal with it.
He is not wrong on this. It does take away from the game and it is TV and financially driven. But all teams have to play within these rules and Team USA figured it out and Canada did not.
If he were to be honest, he could blame the loss on being unable to score on a minute and a half two-man advantage or a couple of his NHL star goal scorers missing wide open nets. Or perhaps, the most honest and gracious excuse that the US goalie, Hellebuyck had an amazing game.
Yeah and the sun was in their eyes and the refs were against them and blah blah blah.
Earlier in the game, Canada had a 5-on-3 for about a minute and failed to score.
Yeah I don’t like the rule. But that’s how it goes. It was a great game. They had a great run.
3 on 3 is still much better than a 1 on 1 penalty shot
I remember one set up (I cannot recall the tournament) that OT consisted of 10 minute periods where you went from 5:5, then 4:4, then 3:3.
I despise shoot outs.
But, the rules are the rules. Everyone plays by them.
Yes, Canada dominated the game in terms of shots on goals. But, that also means the US goalie performed better than the Canadian one.
Finally…it’s a game for goodness sake. It really doesn’t much matter in the course of the world.
Were the rules known before they started competing? If so, shut up sore loser. If not, why were they changed?