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2026 Winter Olympics

Czechia’s goaltending oy. 2 soft ones vs USA. New tendy today vs Switzerland and they give up a late 2 goal lead and lose in a shootout.

Switzerland looks better than I remember. USA and Canada face Team Norovirus A (Finland) and B (Switzerland) tomorrow.
 
Timothy A said:
Meh. Let's ruin women's Olympic hockey over the flu. Great idea.
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What would ruin it is if teams are wiped out by flu (or Norovirus) during the medal rounds. That's what they're trying to prevent.

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An article posted on Yahoo Sports at 5 PM CST says that 1) it is norovirus, 2) 14 Finnish players were under quarantine before the game against Canada, 3.the Swiss team is in quarantine tonight after a player tested positive for norovirus. They went into quarantine after the game today vs Czechia, and the plyer who tested positive did not play the Czechia game.

Norovirus is HIGHLY contagious, has an incubation period of 12 to 48 hours, though can be as long as 73 hours. People get better after 24 to 72 hours. But you can still be contagious even after you feel better. Close quarters, like the Olympic Village, is an ideal environment to spread the virus.
 
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Timothy A said:
I hope somewhere there's the TOI so we can look at to see who played how many minutes.

Last night I set up the DVR to record the women's hockey game on USA and it's actually recording all the Olympics on the USA channel. I guess I'll have to do a lot of deleting. I also don't know how much I'm actually going to get to watch this weekend because Badger girls play two afternoon games and we're going to the men's game on Friday as well and I've got the 1-hour drive one way to and from the rink.
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I have You Tube TV and the DVR is unlimited. No need to delete anything.
 
Basically this virus has 6 day window between max incubation and max sickness time, so they should shut everything down for 8 days just to make sure, right? Maybe even 9. After all, the recovery percentage for highly healthy and fit athletes is only 100%.
 
Switzerland has a touch of norovirus too and they play Canada today lol. This is one way to bring parity to the game. Perhaps Sweden can break out of group B jail and beat a depleted group A team
 
Watching Italy Sweden. I love this Italy team! 1-0 Sweden and shots even at the beginning of 2nd.

Ruggiero on color. She has surpassed Mleczko. Ruggiero has shown improvement over the years. Mleczko should not be on the USA games. I’m sure because of contracts that’s set in stone. She was the trail blazer but others are better now. She either hasn’t been mentored or isn’t listening to mentoring. Chris Baileys birthday??? Not relevant!
 
2-0 USA vs Finland early in the 2nd. Carpenter and Heise with goals. Edwards and Keller with another pp assist. Murphy and Curl helping Heise score on the rush.

The word smothering comes to mind. And they just scored again and may break open . Keller the goal scorer.

One of the things that jumps off the page for the US is their size. Just in terms of reaching pucks they have an edge on most shifts but presumably there’s an exhaustion in dealing with that as an opponent, throughout a game.
 
2-0 USA vs Finland early in the 2nd. Carpenter and Heise with goals. Edwards and Keller with another pp assist. Murphy and Curl helping Heise score on the rush.

The word smothering comes to mind. And they just scored again and may break open . Keller the goal scorer.

One of the things that jumps off the page for the US is their size. Just in terms of reaching pucks they have an edge on most shifts but presumably there’s an exhaustion too in dealing with that as an opponent, throughout a game.
 
4-0. Knight ties the record for most Olympic goals. Primary assist to Edwards, and 2nd assist to Keller.

Keller and Edwards are monsters on pp 1 with knight and carpenter and bilka.

Pp2 doesn’t even make it on the ice cause these guys are clinical.

The gritty players are drawing penalties.
 
The first period was flashbacks to Sanni Ahola at St Cloud; very tough to score on. After a while, Wisconsin would wear down the team in front of her, and get a couple goals. I feel bad for Ahola, being peppered once again, 90% save percent and still down by four goals.
 
So I went to the local meat market this morning and there were two young fellas working the counter, I'd say late twenties. I'm wearing my 1980 Olympic hockey jersey. One young fellow says " oh wow! Are there Olympics going on now or something?" The other young fella says "yeah there is but I'm not sure if it's the summer or the winter one". I just wonder what kind of media these fellas follow. Dude number one was completely clueless.

I would've like to see the ladies just play a full 60 minutes all gas and no brakes against Finland. I hate the thought of having to turn it on and off. It should be on all the time. Maybe run the fourth one a lot more in the third and the third D pair, send out the number two goalie.
 
Timothy A said:
So I went to the local meat market this morning and there were two young fellas working the counter, I'd say late twenties. I'm wearing my 1980 Olympic hockey jersey. One young fellow says " oh wow! Are there Olympics going on now or something?" The other young fella says "yeah there is but I'm not sure if it's the summer or the winter one". I just wonder what kind of media these fellas follow. Dude number one was completely clueless.

I would've like to see the ladies just play a full 60 minutes all gas and no brakes against Finland. I hate the thought of having to turn it on and off. It should be on all the time. Maybe run the fourth one a lot more in the third and the third D pair, send out the number two goalie.
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To be fair, for half of the world, it is summer right now ...
 
Timothy A said:
I would've like to see the ladies just play a full 60 minutes all gas and no brakes against Finland. I hate the thought of having to turn it on and off. It should be on all the time. Maybe run the fourth one a lot more in the third and the third D pair, send out the number two goalie.
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Given the tournament format the goal is to do enough to get the number one seed in Group A so they can play lowest seed out of Group B. No need to expend extra energy in the preliminary round.
 
Lindsay said:
Watching Italy Sweden. I love this Italy team! 1-0 Sweden and shots even at the beginning of 2nd.

Ruggiero on color. She has surpassed Mleczko. Ruggiero has shown improvement over the years. Mleczko should not be on the USA games. I’m sure because of contracts that’s set in stone. She was the trail blazer but others are better now. She either hasn’t been mentored or isn’t listening to mentoring. Chris Baileys birthday??? Not relevant!
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It would be fun to see Italy grab the third spot in Group B.
 
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