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Sounds like Mr. I is going to start planning on designing a new arena. A couple more years for the Wings to play at the Joe.

I wonder if this will do good for the NHL. Both teams have NHL players so people could think that this is the same type of caliber of a NHL game and monitoring websites, the game last night is getting a lot of press.

OOOOOOLE OLE OLE OLE USA, USA, OLE OLE OLE OLE USA, USA

I found this interesting http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/20/olympi...dex.html?hpt=T3 Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- 18-0. 10-1. 13-1. Those are the scores of the first three games for the Canadian women's Olympic team. The United States team outscored its opponents by 30 goals. In this country where emotions and conversations are tied to the results of the men's game, the women's team's dominance has been a little embarrassing. "After witnessing the early routs at the hands of the Canadian and U.S. women's hockey teams, it's hard to see how these predetermined massacres can be deemed sporting. A sport dominated so comprehensively by two teams, year after year, can barely be considered a competition. For Canada then to celebrate so fulsomely over such hollow victories speaks poorly about us," a resident of Abbotsford, British Columbia, wrote in a letter to the editors of the Vancouver Sun. Women's hockey is being contested for the fourth time at the Olympics, and Canada, which has won two golds and one silver, is a sure thing to meet the United States in the final. The issue is how long will women's hockey stay in the games? Will it get the boot one day as softball did after the 2008 Beijing Games? Or will it be like soccer, with other nations eventually catching up to the powerhouses? Rene Fasel, the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, said women's Olympic hockey will be on the program for the Sochi Games in 2014. "It will be our task to help other federations. We have to go through this," Fasel said Thursday. He said there were similar blowouts in the early days of the men's tournament. The women will make faster progress, he said. But hockey journalists are concerned. "Actually, the gap in talent is widening," said Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons. "The Canadians and U.S. have improved more than other countries." Players in North America have many more opportunities to play and many more players. In Canada there are 88,000 female players. In the United States there are more than 60,000. In China there are 267. The younger North American players, many of whom started off playing with boys, are much stronger and faster than the members of the teams in the 1998 Olympics, he said. Other countries haven't kept up. There are also U.S. colleges that have funded teams and Canadian women are flocking to schools in the States to get hockey scholarships, Simmons said. Russian players would also love to come to the United States, but they have a six-team league where players make a small stipend. The NCAA looks at it as a professional league. "They just close this road for us. There are a lot of hockey girls right now in Russia who want to play in the U.S.," Russian winger Iya Gavrilova told Sarah Kwak of Sports Illustrated. "Like [Alexandra Vafina]. She wants it so bad, but she can't because everybody's saying it's pro hockey." SI.com: Next host of Winter Olympics no fan of women's hockey The program in Russia, like many countries, is stymied by a chauvinistic lack of funding. Julie Foudy, a longtime member of the U.S. Soccer team and now an ESPN commentator, said she understands how the players on the U. S. and Canadian teams feel. In the early 1990s, her teams were similarly dominant, especially when they played in World Cup qualifiers. It will take two things -- time and a shifting of mind-sets -- for the lesser teams to catch up, she said. She said when she was a player, opponents would tell her that it took the exposure of major tournaments for people to realize that women can compete on a high level. By seeing how good the U.S. players were, officials in other countries softened their positions on women playing sports. "It becomes more acceptable," Foudy said by phone. "They change their attitudes and say, 'Why aren't we better at that?' " With time, she said, those changes translate into an increased effort to bolster the national team. Meanwhile, the hockey coaches and players from the United States and Canada defended themselves after the blowouts. It's a matter of respect for the game, U.S. coach Mark Johnson said. "Their players are doing the same thing as our players and living the Olympic dream," he said. Canadian coach Melody Davidson said it is a "no-win situation" and that critics should afford women the same forbearance shown for the men's game. "It seems like there is a lot more patience on one side of the puck," she told the Globe and Mail of Toronto, Ontario. "We didn't come here to put on a second-class show. We came here to play our best."

I did not feel like making a new topic, so I will put it in here and I don't know if anyone posted this but Kronwalls picture on NBC with him wearing glasses. Just kind of odd looking http://www.nbcolympics.com/wdiv/localathle...2519/index.html

Bring back the style of the crease (half circle) that they use in the Olympics.

Bring back the Concorde plane and maybe overseas games could work.

I like Pierre Lebrun. He is always sharp and spot on when watching him during the second intermission on HNIC. I've read some of his articles before and they are good too.

OMG that arena announcer is annoying with his OO

Is the u.s. Game at noon or 3pm? I'm getting to dif times from the here and NBC Olympic app. All times in Eastern.

China is going to kick some butt.

If the players can ignore the fans behind the glass as well them pounding the glass, I feel they can ignore the ad's.

LED strips with special Kevlar clear plastic should replace the ad's on the boards that way they can rotate unlimited ad's. I like how soccer has them all way around the pitch.

Team Kim won!

Ozzie plays with a Helmet style that I don't even think is produced anymore.

Did anyone see that old guy by the tunnel on the bench when the caps players where going into the locker room. That old guy grabbed that kids hand with force to stop the kid as the kid was just trying to pat the players on the way in.

Dang man that blows hard chunks. I thought the game was on at 10:00 or 10:30 P.M. since the Wings where in L.A.

They played already? WTF?

If where going to that extreme, then move them out Michigan. Makes complete sense as to why you want to move them out of Detroit.

There's only 8 home games and they play once a week. Lions practice out in Allen Park on site of The Detroit Lions Headquarters.

Please give us FS Detroit + HD!!

Michigan vs Michigan state http://www.freep.com/article/20100128/SPOR...ichigan-Stadium

Demo Cobo Hall and build a new stadium there. Kill two birds with one stone since Detroit needs a new modern convention center to keep up with the newer ones. They can build an new convention center with room to expand at another location within the city.

Looking for video of this game. I got one, but the video doesn't work and only the audio does. It's a .mp4 file using VLC as the player.