Finland cares more about bronzes than the USA, who basically gave up after Selanne's goal.

obiwanobiwan, I am pretty sure that team was never assembled. And why are you putting Kurri on the buds? And Why are you degrading Gretzky's later years (still better than anyone else ever except maybe Mario). Where is Marcel Dionne, Peter Statsny, Sakic? Hasek for that matter?

#fuckcanada trending on Twitter from sucky americans AND being mocked by us.

Canada looking smooth and relaxed thus far. The team is on top of every puck.

That was ALL Crosby.

#WeAreHockey

I'm not the biggest Crosby fan, but that was a sweet goal. This does bode well for boston though...Bergeron, task, eriksson, and julien. A lot of compete!

KUUUUUUUUUUUUUNITZ!!!

IN YOUR FACE, HATERS.

Oh Canada.

The ONLY National Anthem sung at Bolshoy these Olympics.

MVP is Selanne.

@Lando:

-Why not include Kurri?

-Not degrading Gretzky's later years, more just joking about them

-I already have 3 goalies...who would I bump for Hasek?

-Ditto Dionne, Statsny, Sakic, et al--who ya gonna bump to make room?

Most of the old timers could not play in today's league. This 2014 Team Canada is the best ever team.

Firstly, at the start of the olympics I predicted a Canada gold, Sweden silver and that the US wouldn't medal. All 3 of those predictions where right. My bronze (Russia) prediction was wrong.

Secondly, Obi's list isn't a list of greatest team ever assembled, its a list of greatest players of all time list. The undisputed greatest team ever assembled was the 1976 Montreal Canadians.

I also don't know how Lidstrom, Sakic or Hasek didn't make the cut on Obis team.

I also want to point out that every single winger on Obi's list is a RW, and many wingers have had problems when forced to play on the side they're not comfortable with.

Here is my team:
Coaches:
Head Coach: Bowman
Assistant Coaches: Babcock and Blake

Captain:
Sakic

Alternates:
Lemieux
Lidstrom

I may be bias here as Sakic is my favourite forward of all time, but I thought he was a better leader then Lemieux or Gretzky, even if he didn't put up as many points, I thought he demonstrated better leadership in Colorado then Gretzky did in LA or Lemieux did in Pittsburgh.

Lemieux got an A for being the most decorated international captain on the team.
Lidstrom got an A for being the best captain of the defenseman

Lines
Rather then have 4 all scoring lines, I decided to go with the traditional 2 scoring lines, 1 checking line and a enforcer line. Choosing my 6 scorers was super, super tough.

Lemieux-Sakic-Howe
Hull-Gretzky-Richard
Gainey-Datsyuk-Lafleur
Shanahan-Messier-Shultz

Lidstrom-Orr
Harvey-MacInnis
Robinson-Bourque

Starting Goalie: Hasek
Back up: Brodeur

Scratches:
Yzerman (C), Jagr (RW), Potvin (D), Chelios (D) and Roy (G)

Some notes:
Hasek is the greatest goalie of all time, in Buffalo he carried his team every year and is the only goalie in history to win 2 Hart Memorials. He also should have won the Con Smythe in the 98-99 season, but was robbed by the refs with the famous Brett Hull (No) Goal. I may be a little bias given that he is my favourite player (of any position) of all time, but Hasek was in my opinion the best goalie of all time.

Gainey and Datsyuk are the two best defensive forwards of all time, Gainey paired with Lafleur like he did in Montreal during the 70s and we have a dirty 3rd line that is capable at scoring and unbeatable at defense. This would be my go to line in the last minute of a close game.

Richard being a small, speedy sniper would be a perfect winger for a Gretzky style offense, and therefore I thought it made perfect sense to put them on the same line.

I had trouble deciding between my two scoring lines as to which would be line 1 and which would be line 2. Since Sakic is my captain I put him on line 1, sue me.

While the Moose wasn't an enforcer, he could have filled that role and would also be a PP specialist on this team.

MacInnis is also a PP specialist and was selected cause we lacked guys with powerful slapshot from the point, even though defensively he was worse then Potvin, Chelios Coffey, his offense makes up for that.

obi - no problems with Kurri, he had a great career. I just thought it strange you posted that he played on the leafs, which I don't think he did.

FYI, Obi. Buds=Leafs.

Hey obi-dork. Will you please favour us with a long winded analysis of Team U.S.A 's last two games against Canada and Finland? If you could emphasize the reasons why Team U.S.A. displayed zero competitiveness, or skill for that matter. Why DO they suck?

Thank you.

Except Phil and JVR who were great, as expected.

Lundquist stood on his head. That game could have easily been 7-0. Swedish defense played terrible.

@Obi: Sawchuck would barely crack the top 10 list of greatest goalies of all time.

Hey obi, could you please provide us all with that long detailed analysis that I asked for? Feel free to make it long winded with the odd Shakespeare reference.

Anyone else noticed obi said fuck in OP?

Laugh of the Day.

When I posted, " do you believe in miracles? " just prior to Canada's cake-walk over the Useless S. A. in Olympic Men's Hockey, obi-dork actually thought that I was describing CANADA'S victory as a miracle. lol.

Just read it's response....

For the record, obi-dork, I was mocking Al Michaels. I was rubbing your face in shit.

I think I'll mine this thread for some precious posts.

Lets start with Spewtin33.....

Putin33 (103 )
Fri 7 Feb
+1 (+1)
I hope both the USA and Russia do well

I hear their Gold Medal Game circle jerk went REALLY WELL. I hope you're not disappointed....

Oh, you're all going to LOVE this one....obiwanobiwan (223 )
Sat 15 Feb
+1

"The U.S.A. are, admittedly, the best of the also-rans"

I THINK NOT!!! USA FOR THE GOLD!

Quick's as good a goalie as there is, and Ryan Miller was great 4 years ago...

And we just showed we can put the puck in the net against Slovakia...

We've got a shot to medal, at least!

Oh.

WELL.

If Team u.s.a. can score against SLOVAKIA like that, maybe I'm all turned around on the subject.

Please accept my humble appy polly logies.