US Olympic Hockey - Let's Stick It To The Canucks Again!

[aktick]

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"If you lose this game you'll take it to your ****ing grave! The ****ing grave!"

Yep, pretty much. After beating the Canucks on their home ice, losing to Switzerland or Belarus in the quarters would follow these guys around forever.

 

[UMLFan]

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Having a couple days to rest while the others play will be a huge boon as well. I think they could have their hands full in the quarters, but disappointing wouldn't cover the feeling if they lost that one.

 

[dggoddard]

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So the two greatest hockey games of all time were not shown live on Network TV in the USA???

It turns out that NBC didn't have Hi-Def equipment needed to televise the game on the network so they couldn't cut away to the game or something-or-other....

FROM: Fanhouse

The only buzzkill was that NBC, which worries about losing its rear end to the tune of $250 million at these Games, didn't have the foresight to air the resounding moments of an instant classic, its most visible blowtorch. Because the telecast was not done in high-definition -- you pay $2.2 billion for Olympics rights and don't put the Canada-U.S. game in hi-def? -- an American viewer had to have cable network MSNBC to see Miller hold off the Canadians with monstrous late saves, which led to an empty-net goal by Ryan Kesler with 45 seconds left that sent Team USA into its wildest celebration since the Miracle on Ice. The network better have every state-of-the-art gadget in place for the quarterfinals on Wednesday and, if necessary, the semifinals Friday and gold-medal game next Sunday.

 

[Tater]

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So the two greatest hockey games of all time were not shown live on Network TV in the USA???

It turns out that NBC didn't have Hi-Def equipment needed to televise the game on the network so they couldn't cut away to the game or something-or-other....

That doesn't make complete sense since the highlights of the game shown later on NBC were in HD.

 

[dggoddard]

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That doesn't make complete sense since the highlights of the game shown later on NBC were in HD.

Take it up with Jay Mariotti.

Maybe they got the highlights from CBC.

 

[Dirty]

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And MSNBC is available in HD, most people just don't have it. And the last minute of the game was on NBC. In HD. I'm all for ripping on NBC as frequently as possible for their horrendous coverage of the Olympics, but they did show the game in HD.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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That doesn't make complete sense since the highlights of the game shown later on NBC were in HD.

It was in HD on my DirecTV feed. Looked great!

 

[MadCityRich]

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So the two greatest hockey games of all time were not shown live on Network TV in the USA???

It turns out that NBC didn't have Hi-Def equipment needed to televise the game on the network so they couldn't cut away to the game or something-or-other....

Wasn't the Czeck-Russia game live on NBC earlier in the day? (EDIT: It was.) I thought it was since I couldn't believe NBC had that game and not the US-Canada game.

I have Dish Network which has MSNBC in HiDef.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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It turns out that NBC didn't have Hi-Def equipment needed to televise the game on the network so they couldn't cut away to the game or something-or-other....

You know better than that. It was in HD, you just needed MSNBC in HD to see it.

 

[pgb-ohio]

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So the two greatest hockey games of all time were not shown live on Network TV in the USA???

It turns out that NBC didn't have Hi-Def equipment needed to televise the game on the network so they couldn't cut away to the game or something-or-other....

Well, at least last night's game was shown live on pay TV -- thirty years, a little progress.

I will say that I much prefer full games on cable/satellite as opposed to partial games on the network. A generation ago they'd show portions of olympic hockey games, but would frequently cut away to other events...

 

[The Exiled One]

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Through three games, here's your former collegiate scoring. Go USA!!

Brian Rafalski (University of Wisconsin) - 4G 1A 5Pts
Ryan Suter (University of Wisconsin) - 0G 4A 4Pts
Ryan Malone (St. Cloud State University) - 2G 1A 3Pts
David Backes (Minnesota State University-Mankato) - 1G 2A 3Pts
Zach Parise (University of North Dakota) - 0G 3A 3Pts
Chris Drury (Boston University) - 2G 0A 2Pts
Phil Kessel (University of Minnesota) - 1G 1A 2Pts
Joe Pavelski (University of Wisconsin) - 0G 2A 2Pts
Jack Johnson (University of Michigan) - 0G 1A 1Pts

Ryan Miller (Michigan State) - What needs to be said?

 

[dggoddard]

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You know better than that. It was in HD, you just needed MSNBC in HD to see it.

Don't blame me, I was just quoting the article. NBC is getting roasted by the press today.

Long and the short of it, is that Hockey lost a key opportunity to get the sport out to 40 million viewers. This is starting to look like the "Heidi Bowl." Clearly, NBC should of realized that an upset was brewing and cut away to the hockey game.

Sure all the hard core hockey fans saw the game on MSNBC, but if this was the Miracle on Ice II, hockey lost out because NBC didn't have the foresight.

Key stat; all but five of the USA players attended US colleges and played hockey.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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I will say that I much prefer full games on cable/satellite as opposed to partial games on the network. A generation ago they'd show portions of olympic hockey games, but would frequently cut away to other events...

Very true and that was very annoying back in the day. I'm thrilled that every game is on in its entirety.

This game wasn't gonna convert new fans to hockey any more than any of us will be watching Bode Miller next skiing season. Anybody who really wanted to see this hockey game saw it.

 

[burgie12]

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I will say that I much prefer full games on cable/satellite as opposed to partial games on the network. A generation ago they'd show portions of olympic hockey games, but would frequently cut away to other events...

Thank you.

The fact that there were no commercials during the period also made me very happy.

 

[aktick]

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It was in HD on my DirecTV feed. Looked great!

Huh? On MSNBC?

 

[Slap Shot]

Interesting that although MSNBC wasn't available in HD to me (Comcast cable) the picture was strikingly better than the average non-HD broadcast.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I get MSNBC in HD, and the game did look pretty good in HD.

You do have to wonder if that's how a certain game in Lake Placid was broadcasted back home to the Soviets 30 years ago.

I read somewhere that they either didn't broadcast the game in the USSR or it was put on in the middle of the night. The communists controlled the TV and didn't want to show the masses that they could be beat.

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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Time Warner in Milwaukee had the HD feed from MSNBC.

Leave it people like Jay Mariotti to not know what they're talking about.

 

[STATEdude3]

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If I had told you that our leading scorer to this point would be a defenseman, and one named Rafalski, not J. or E. Johnson, would you believe the team would have a 3-0 record?

This is unbelievable...I'm having a hard time focusing at work, I just want to focus on olympic hockey right now.


Earlier in the afternoon I said that the Russia/Czech game was the greatest game I have ever watched from talent to intensity, etc...that was eclipsed with the Canada/USA game. I am 25 years old and have seen several hundred hockey games...I have never seen one that was so consistently intense like this game.

Ryan Miller holds the key to this team's medal chances. I do not know if he can continue this torrid pace, but if he is anything close to as good as he was last night i really like the Americans' chances at a high medal.

 

[Timothy A]

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So one of the goal scorers last night wasn't from North American?

You get the point, but I'll clarify...former UW players almost outscored the rest of the the players from North America.

US Sweeps.