USA Mens hockey

What channel are they or were they on for Dish. I thought I had it set to record but can’t find it.
DT

Hockey? What’s that?

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Hockey? What’s that?

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Isn’t figure skating on for you to watch?
DT

Ice dancing is more my thing.

Looks like USA plays on NBC Sports. A channel that I don’t get.
DT

Try 159, that’s the channel I get it on.

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Looks like USA plays on NBC Sports. A channel that I don’t get.
DT

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220 on DirecTV.

Yup, that’s NBC Sports. I don’t get it.
DT

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Looks like USA plays on NBC Sports. A channel that I don’t get.
DT

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220 on DirecTV.

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Will you record it and post it to Youtube so I can see it?
DT

We don’t have cable and I thought it was on plain NBC. Been up since three

if you have a decent internet connection you can watch it here…http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-extra use your cable info and you can watch it live. Love the double computer screen at work. one for the olympics and one for IDO…haha.

Thanks.
DT

Bad enough i cant watch my local hockey team without cable
now i cant even watch the usa hockey team but i can watch figure skating and mens double luge

I lost any interest I had for Olympic hockey and basketball when they went to professional players.

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I lost any interest I had for Olympic hockey and basketball when they went to professional players.

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Then you should have never had an interest. Other countries were doing it long before the US started.

It does bother me that we are using US tax dollars to support these professional athletes. Their lifestyle is not lavish based on their “salaries”. The facilities provided are another story. Should this really be a priority in our society?

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I lost any interest I had for Olympic hockey and basketball when they went to professional players.

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Then you should have never had an interest.

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I’ll be the judge of that you curmudgeonly @#$%&*

sincerely,

The “other” curmudgeon.

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I’ll be the judge of that you curmudgeonly &$*(#&%

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You should watch one game and decide. I watched this morning and was amazed at the speed. This really is hockey at its finest. This is the only event I watch.

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I lost any interest I had for Olympic hockey and basketball when they went to professional players.

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Great showing by the USA to get things rolling. Really was good to see that they did NOT appear to be trying to force an NHL-style game onto the big sheet of ice.

Meanwhile the “Own the Podium” and “Our Game Our Gold” cocky Canadians struggled against little ol’ Norway. Great example of what happens when you try to play an NHL style against a team that’s adept at the international game. Norway was vastly outgunned on paper, but still managed to use effective play to their advantage to hold the Canadians to just 3 goals.

Big match coming up against Russia. Hang on to your sweaters and breezers, both teams know this is the Battle Royal of the pool play. Although, with that said, the Canada v. Finland matchup just got a whole lot more interesting with Canada looking dazed and confused against Norway. The Finns have got to be seeing a real opportunity here, so that match might be way more interesting than has been predicted.

One thing that was disappointing is how few USA fans there were there today. Media reports are backing this up saying that with the visa requirements, security questions, and huge expense, basically American fans beyond the families are largely MIA. That’s a real shame, but since Putin made these Olympics his personal vanity project and therefore a huge terrorist target, I can understand to some extent.

USA. USA. USA!

Grouse

Hopefully this is the last one for the NHL.

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You should watch one game and decide. I watched this morning and was amazed at the speed. This really is hockey at its finest.

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Agreed. The only thing that comes close is the NHL finals (not early rounds) and most college games.

The big ice makes these guys skate and the goons are not a factor.

Big ice makes for chippier hack hockey.

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Hopefully this is the last one for the NHL.

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I think the NHL owners are a bunch of whiny-assed little snivelers. Every other major professional sport on Earth has found a way to deal with and even benefit from International play. Olympics, super leagues, world cups, etc. It’s good for the sport and it’s good for the NHL because it keeps interest in hockey high.

The problem that the USA was always up against in the old days was that we were one of the only countries that were really using amateurs. Back in the Soviet days and even before the NHL players were allowed to play, all of the eastern European and some Scandinavian countries were pulling the same gag. They had all their hockey players in the armed forces, “national service” or other government payroll positions, but their only real “job” was to play hockey all year round.

The US was held back in a number of ways with the true amateurs available in the systems here. College players who had to abide by all the NCAA rules, limited season, rules on where/how/for who they can play in the off season, time constraints because of eligibility, etc.

The NHL owners need to get over it and embrace the benefits rather than whining about taking 3 weeks off to sit on the beach every 4 years.

Also, one benefit that the NHL owners are NOT talking about is the ability to rest injured players during the break. Look at the number more games the Wild would have been WITHOUT Koivu if this wasn’t an Olympic year. We’ll be lucky if he’s ready to get back on the ice AFTER 3 weeks of Olympic play. Without it, he’d have missed 6-8 more games.

Grouse

IMO, I don’t think it benefits the NHL at all. Maybe, and this is a big maybe, it does internationally, but not North America.

The flip side to the resting injured players is that your star players are risking injury, risking burn out and the schedule has been more compact, probably causing a few injuries and not given teams much of a chance to rest guys during the season.

Hockey fans already have the world juniors and world championships held annually. I would be ok with them maybe going every time the games were in the Americas or every other olypics. Every 4 years is overkill.

I don’t like this 3 week off thing in the middle of the season. Plus the injury factor in the Olympics.

Gundy

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I don’t like this 3 week off thing in the middle of the season. Plus the injury factor in the Olympics.

Gundy

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I hear ya. Im lost with no fantasy hockey…

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I hear ya. Im lost with no fantasy hockey…

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Ha! I have 3 guys on the IR….maybe the Olympics is a good thing.

Maybe I’ll try starting a league next year on IDO. I am in a 16 team keeper league and it is a lot of fun, except now guys are just grabbing prospects in the hopes that 3 years down the line they’ll have a super team. Also the commish tried proposing some goofy prospect roster where you could keep 8 guys on and not count against your regular roster. Since ESPN doesn’t have that feature we would have to manage it outside the league

I like having keepers, but come on, you are not GMs in real life.

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IMO, I don’t think it benefits the NHL at all. Maybe, and this is a big maybe, it does internationally, but not North America.

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I can’t see where there’s any doubt that having the NHL players in the Olympics raises the profile of hockey tremendously and that can only benefit the NHL.

Yes, of course hockey doesn’t “need” international exposure to maintain current popularity in North America. But these days, if a sport isn’t growing, it’s dying.

Hockey without an expanding international interest would turn it back into a “minor league” professional sport like cricket or rugby. Strong interest in a few core countries and completely off the radar everywhere else and most importantly, not in a growth mode.

The NHL owners will complain about anything and everything that doesn’t line their pockets with cash TODAY. Hockey is better than it’s ever been thanks to the expansion of international interest. Typical for a bunch of owners who have rosters loaded with European players to want to pull back from international play. Then 4 years later they’ll be b!tching that the quality of international players is going downhill.

Owners can never be trusted to look out for the good of the game.

Grouse

Europe already has their professional leagues and many of them follow their favorite countryman in the NHL. I’ll never be convinced that the Olympics adds anything to the game or grows it. I just can’t imagine some kid in the US or Europe watching the Olympics and “discovering” the game or finding new interest in it.

I have enjoyed the NHL in the Olympics in the past, but for me the novelty has worn off. And every 4 years for me is too much. I’d even be fine with every other Olympics.

Then again, the Olympics do nothing for me anymore. So maybe that is a big part of it.