Women's Hockey Shocker!

[Matt]

http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=...ubname=olympics

 

Women's Hockey: Swedes stun USA

Canadian Press

 

2/17/2006 2:34:38 PM

 

TORINO, Italy (AP) - Sweden shocked the United States with a 3-2 shootout win in a women's Olympic hockey semifinal Friday.

 

That means for the first time since international competition in women's hockey began in 1990, the U.S. and Canada won't meet in the championship match - and it's largely because of Swedish goalie Kim Martin.

 

Martin made 37 saves and stopped all four American attempts in a shootout, while Maria Rooth scored twice in regulation time and added the clinching shootout goal in Sweden's 3-2 victory in the semifinals.

 

When she was only 15 years old, Martin led the Swedes to the bronze medal in Salt Lake City. On Friday, she was the difference in a watershed win that decisively proves world-class women's hockey can be played outside North America.

 

"This is the greatest thing to happen to women's hockey in Sweden and everywhere around," Martin said. "We knew we were getting better and better all the time. We needed to beat the U.S. or Canada to show it."

 

 

 

Rooth scored two goals in 3

[glo]

WoooHooo! Go Swedes!!

[HoboFactory]

It's good the US is doing relatively crappily. Since most of you don't live in the states, you don't have to put up with those "We're America, and our athletes will own everyone at everything!" commercials that they run all the time. I just think it's so neat that they're doing so badly after all of the premature boasting.

[WalrusMeat]

Yeah, seeing how we're Canada, and our atheletes PWN hockey.

[Matt]

Well Canada's Women's team beat Finland 6-0 today, so it will be Canada vs the Swedes in the finals.

[Cherry Poppin' Daddy]

For the sake of the sport, it would be nice to see Sweden win.

[RicardoObviouso]

for the sake of sport it would be nice to see me in a room full of swedish supermodels.

[HoboFactory]

Yeah, seeing how we're Canada, and our atheletes PWN hockey.

Not long ago there was a place called the USSR, they were much better owners of the sport in question.

[RicardoObviouso]

only because we were afraid that if we beat them, they'd pull some fucked up war shit on us.

 

 

 

trust me.

[Matt]

Actually we couldn't send our NHLers to the Olympics and the Russians withheld most of their players from the NHL so they could own the sports.

 

Anyways I still hope Canada wins on Monday, I think the sport has shown that has now already proved it's not a two way sport. However, if the Finns were to win the bronze that would help a little more too...

[HoboFactory]

only because we were afraid.

 

 

trust me.

Corrected to reflect the truth.

[WalrusMeat]

Ah, so true.

 

 

But, the USSR fell, and Canadian hocky began to rise.

[Dan #2]

I was hoping this would have something to do with an index, middle and pinky finger.

[RicardoObviouso]

i wouldnt want to shocker any of the women on any of those teams... except cassie campbell and manone rheaume circa mid-late 90s.

[Dan #2]

i have no idea what any of these women look like, so it would have been a suprise either way.

[Stu]

They all have ponytails hanging from their helmets, if that helps

[Dan #2]

Damn that's hawt.

[ecnarf]

Yeah, seeing how we're Canada, and our atheletes PWN hockey.

Not long ago there was a place called the USSR, they were much better owners of the sport in question.

That's because the Olympics wouldn't allow "professional" players, but the CCCP army guys were more "professional" hockey players than our NHL guys were.

 

Fucking pinkos.

Edited February 20, 2006 by ecnarf

[Matt]

Well the Red Army meant they could withhold their players from the NHL, which meant that they could have plenty of more time to train together...

[ecnarf]

I should mention that I initially read the topic of this thread as "Women's Hockey Shower".

 

I was bitterly disappointed.

Edited February 21, 2006 by ecnarf

[WalrusMeat]

That made me giggle.

 

 

Teehee.

[Cherry Poppin' Daddy]

The women skate circles around the men.

[Azalroth]

indeed...

[HoboFactory]

Yeah, seeing how we're Canada, and our atheletes PWN hockey.

Not long ago there was a place called the USSR, they were much better owners of the sport in question.

That's because the Olympics wouldn't allow "professional" players, but the CCCP army guys were more "professional" hockey players than our NHL guys were.

 

Fucking pinkos.

It wasn't because of it. We're just the master race.

[ecnarf]

Then why haven't you won a meaningful hockey title / war in the last little while?