I just watched the gold medal game of the World Junior Hockey Championships on television. The USA team defeated Canada 6-5 in overtime. I’m not a big hockey fan. I was when I was a little kid, but more recently the last time I was charged up by a hockey game I think the Canadian Women’s team was involved. I stumbled onto tonight’s game by accident, on my way to the food network.
Even though the home team lost, I thought this was tremendously fun and exciting hockey. The Canadians tied it up with a pair of goals late in the third period, setting up the overtime. I’m sure there will be plenty of hockey fans to take exception to this but to me, by comparison, pro hockey seems clumsy and slow and dull – especially those brutal mid-season games. I’ll watch these juniors play anytime.
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Good game alright. I’m also really looking forward to the Olympic games next month.
This was a heartbreaking loss, mostly because we rallied at the last minute to tie it up. But we can’t win them all and the Americans played a better game than we did.
Now that they’ve beat us on our own turf I’m looking forward to beating them on theirs in Buffalo 2011.
Is this Ice Hockey or running about on grass after an unfeasably small ball hockey?
Dinners, we’ll forgive you since you live across the pond. This is the real deal, and Canada was going after our 6th Junior World Championship in a row. We lost to the Americans but they deserved the win. It was a great game.
The Spousal Unit watched it as well and he was enthralled.
It was a good game. I just caught the tail end of it after work, but it was fun to watch.