2018 Winter Olympics

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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,235
    Meltdown99 said:
    The Olympic hockey tournament was pretty good without the NHL...
    Yeah, some of the games were good, on the scoreboard, but the play just wasn't near the same when the NHL players played.

    Hope the NHL players play in the next Olympics.
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    cutz said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    The Olympic hockey tournament was pretty good without the NHL...
    Yeah, some of the games were good, on the scoreboard, but the play just wasn't near the same when the NHL players played.

    Hope the NHL players play in the next Olympics.
    Get used to no NHL ... Bettman already said the NHL is not all that interested in Beijing...

    Qulity of play was excellent.  How could anyone find fault with that gold medal game.
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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,235
    Meltdown99 said:
    cutz said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    The Olympic hockey tournament was pretty good without the NHL...
    Yeah, some of the games were good, on the scoreboard, but the play just wasn't near the same when the NHL players played.

    Hope the NHL players play in the next Olympics.
    Get used to no NHL ... Bettman already said the NHL is not all that interested in Beijing...

    Qulity of play was excellent.  How could anyone find fault with that gold medal game.
    I'm old, so i was already use to watching the Olympics without NHL players>LOL

    Gold Medal game was entertaining. 
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    cutz said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    cutz said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    The Olympic hockey tournament was pretty good without the NHL...
    Yeah, some of the games were good, on the scoreboard, but the play just wasn't near the same when the NHL players played.

    Hope the NHL players play in the next Olympics.
    Get used to no NHL ... Bettman already said the NHL is not all that interested in Beijing...

    Qulity of play was excellent.  How could anyone find fault with that gold medal game.
    I'm old, so i was already use to watching the Olympics without NHL players>LOL

    Gold Medal game was entertaining. 
    Another point, Betman is not dumb.  I’m sure he saw all the empty seats at hockey games ... Olympic hockey needs the NHL, the NHL does not need the Olympics.  Either way, I was quite pleased with men’s hockey ...

    and I also remember Olympic hockey without the nhl ...


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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668
    edited February 2018
    tempo_n_groove said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    The problem is that in most sports the amateur athletes are the best at their sport. But when it comes to hockey, the best at that sport are also in the NHL. I don't find that the "amateur" argument works in this case because of that. The Olympics are for the BEST athletes from each country too. I always agreed with the fact that they made an exception to that amateur rule for hockey.
    ?

    If an athlete is an amateur then they are not the best in their sport.  A "pro"fessional is the best.

    That goes for every sport.  Not everyone can be Bobby Jones.
    ?? So how are the rankings in the professional luge league these days? ;) .... Most Olympic sports simply do not have anything comparable to what we consider professional leagues, and that was my point. And even if there is a professional outlet, like in figure skating, that every specifically is NOT for the best athletes. It's for the ones who can't hack it in the amateur world anymore. Disney on Ice is definitely not packed full of skaters at the top of their careers! In most Olympic sports, athletes turn to professional options (if there are any) after they can't compete in big international amateur competitions anymore.
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    If you receive any money to perform you are no longer an amateur.  Find me 1 athlete in the Olympics that does not have a source of income directly related to his or her sport.  We can get over this idea that the Olympics are an amateur athletic sporting events.  The Olympics are more about bringing together as many winter or summer sports as possible all in one location and bringing attention to sports most of us never watch except in the Olympics.

    As for men’s hockey...as a Canadian hockey fan, our bronze medal team, made me very proud...they were extremely exciting.  The Gold Medal game was fantastic, oh, Germany came ever so close.

    I wish the IOC would tell the nhl to go pound salt, that way we are not caught off guard a year away from Beijing ... I think if we assemble a national men’s team we will can compete for gold ... heck, we were in the mix at this Olympics.
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