Canada vs USA women’s gold medal game

[BigT]

What a game this was. Canada won 3-2 in OT. Canada trailed 2-0 after one. I didn’t know that they do 3 on 3 for a full 20 in OT.

We were at that exact arena earlier in August for a tourney for my boy. It’s in Calgary at the Winsport arena. That facility is next level. Like totally National league.

But good for women’s hockey. It’s come a long way. Hopefully it goes further for all of them. The other teams are now catching up to the US and Canada. Should be great things to come!!!

[galaxytrash]

Aug 31, 2021 20:43:56 GMT -6 BigT said:

What a game this was. Canada won 3-2 in OT. Canada trailed 2-0 after one. I didn’t know that they do 3 on 3 for a full 20 in OT.

We were at that exact arena earlier in August for a tourney for my boy. It’s in Calgary at the Winsport arena. That facility is next level. Like totally National league.

But good for women’s hockey. It’s come a long way. Hopefully it goes further for all of them. The other teams are now catching up to the US and Canada. Should be great things to come!!!

i got to watch it actually. too bad there couldn't have been a packed house for that one. 
it was sure nice to hear that buzzer go off in o/t. the players sure as hell knew what was up. i know i was sure waiting for it. like was said with kane scoring the cup winner in philly and poulin scoring the cup winner tonight...goal scorers know when it's in the net.
i hope blayre turnbull is okay. sucks to get hurt in a gold medal celebration. she sure looked happy enough when they wheeled her out on the gurney.

anyways....nice to end a 9 year gold medal drought.
congrats, girls.

[BigT]

Aug 31, 2021 21:01:22 GMT -6 galaxytrash said:

Aug 31, 2021 20:43:56 GMT -6 BigT said:

What a game this was. Canada won 3-2 in OT. Canada trailed 2-0 after one. I didn’t know that they do 3 on 3 for a full 20 in OT.

We were at that exact arena earlier in August for a tourney for my boy. It’s in Calgary at the Winsport arena. That facility is next level. Like totally National league.

But good for women’s hockey. It’s come a long way. Hopefully it goes further for all of them. The other teams are now catching up to the US and Canada. Should be great things to come!!!

i got to watch it actually. too bad there couldn't have been a packed house for that one. 
it was sure nice to hear that buzzer go off in o/t. the players sure as hell knew what was up. i know i was sure waiting for it. like was said with kane scoring the cup winner in philly and poulin scoring the cup winner tonight...goal scorers know when it's in the net.
i hope blayre turnbull is okay. sucks to get hurt in a gold medal celebration. she sure looked happy enough when they wheeled her out on the gurney.

anyways....nice to end a 9 year gold medal drought.
congrats, girls.

When we were out there in early August, there was absolutely no Covid protocol at all. No, mask, no physical distancing, no nothing. Just life as usual. Did the IIHF put their own protocols in for this? I found it weird that we had a packed house for our kids tourney, but this one was no one allowed.

That facility though is unreal. Like 6 ice sheets, and the main bowl in its own building. They have luge tracks and all that jazz. It’s just General Winter comes by for 6-7 months there, and it’s tough sometimes to make it through. We went to Banff after for a week. The locals there said the winter there lasts like 8 months. That’s 7.5 months longer than I would like!!!

[galaxytrash]

Aug 31, 2021 21:36:11 GMT -6 BigT said:

Aug 31, 2021 21:01:22 GMT -6 galaxytrash said:

i got to watch it actually. too bad there couldn't have been a packed house for that one. 
it was sure nice to hear that buzzer go off in o/t. the players sure as hell knew what was up. i know i was sure waiting for it. like was said with kane scoring the cup winner in philly and poulin scoring the cup winner tonight...goal scorers know when it's in the net.
i hope blayre turnbull is okay. sucks to get hurt in a gold medal celebration. she sure looked happy enough when they wheeled her out on the gurney.

anyways....nice to end a 9 year gold medal drought.
congrats, girls.

When we were out there in early August, there was absolutely no Covid protocol at all. No, mask, no physical distancing, no nothing. Just life as usual. Did the IIHF put their own protocols in for this? I found it weird that we had a packed house for our kids tourney, but this one was no one allowed.

That facility though is unreal. Like 6 ice sheets, and the main bowl in its own building. They have luge tracks and all that jazz. It’s just General Winter comes by for 6-7 months there, and it’s tough sometimes to make it through. We went to Banff after for a week. The locals there said the winter there lasts like 8 months. That’s 7.5 months longer than I would like!!!

i'm not 100% sure but i got a feeling the IIHF set the protocols for the tourney because all 10 teams had to do a 7 day q-tine before leaving their home countries while having to show 3 negative covid tests in that week.

tbh....if you have to spend a winter on the prairies, calgary is your best bet.

winters are generally quite mild. not windsor mild, but prairies mild.
you get a nice chinook blow in, i've seen -30 turn to +12 in like 5 hours.

whenever a chinook comes in, you see these impressive "chinook arches" over the rockies. you see this, don't wash your truck. the streets will soon be slushy.



edmonton's just 3 hours north but imho their winters are 5X more severe.

[galaxytrash]

[BigT]

Aug 31, 2021 23:57:05 GMT -6 galaxytrash said:

Aug 31, 2021 21:36:11 GMT -6 BigT said:

When we were out there in early August, there was absolutely no Covid protocol at all. No, mask, no physical distancing, no nothing. Just life as usual. Did the IIHF put their own protocols in for this? I found it weird that we had a packed house for our kids tourney, but this one was no one allowed.

That facility though is unreal. Like 6 ice sheets, and the main bowl in its own building. They have luge tracks and all that jazz. It’s just General Winter comes by for 6-7 months there, and it’s tough sometimes to make it through. We went to Banff after for a week. The locals there said the winter there lasts like 8 months. That’s 7.5 months longer than I would like!!!

i'm not 100% sure but i got a feeling the IIHF set the protocols for the tourney because all 10 teams had to do a 7 day q-tine before leaving their home countries while having to show 3 negative covid tests in that week.

tbh....if you have to spend a winter on the prairies, calgary is your best bet.

winters are generally quite mild. not windsor mild, but prairies mild.
you get a nice chinook blow in, i've seen -30 turn to +12 in like 5 hours.

whenever a chinook comes in, you see these impressive "chinook arches" over the rockies. you see this, don't wash your truck. the streets will soon be slushy.



edmonton's just 3 hours north but imho their winters are 5X more severe.

It was cool, I got to see my cousin who lives in Cochrane just outside of Calgary. He’s from Windsor. He said your first winter is the worst time of your life. He’s been out there 10 years now so he’s used to it. Windsor’s coldest day on record is -29.1. And that rarely happens. -5 is a cold day here. Usually that’s the night time low. Day time high is around -1 or 0. So it’s cold, but not like that. I can walk around during the day with a light jacket and not be bothered. Today is 23 and it feels cold as hell due to it being 35 the last few weeks.

However, I’ll be like you and head to the tropics one fine day. November to March is grey and cooler temps. Gets depressing at times with not much sunlight!!!