Is it over? Last update I saw, Canada had scored again to make it 4-3 Germans with about 8 min left in 3rd. ETA: Well, it's over now. Sorry, Canada.
It's been a weird Olympics for us... record number of medals, but not so much in hockey and curling. It's like we're that over-achieving kid who's lost their identity...
Bettmann needs to find a large forest fire to lay down and have a nap in. Go back to basketball and stop fucking the sport you know nothing about.
First off, Bettman works at the behest of the owners. This is their decision, he just carries it out. And the reasoning is correct, they shut down the NHL for 3 weeks and go to the Olympics on a completely different time zone. They come back, the players are all off their routine and the games are shit and the playoffs blow. Worst case, McDavid or Matthews or Crosby or one of the stars gets seriously injured and is out for the playoffs. The league is right, it isn't worth the risk. People in China and Korea don't care about the NHL and aren't going to care about it just because they get to watch it for 2 weeks in February.
I read somewhere that they couldn't come to an agreement over who would pay for the insurance for the NHL players also. I think they should send the stars to the Olympics and keep the season going with a collection of scrubs.
Is...is that real? I mean, they have to have filtered out all the people who have taken the silver bar, right? Or was there only one bar and literally no one wanted it?
I really hope someone chose the silver and they just edited it out. My favorite was the lady who was like, "I don't have any way to do anything with the silver" even though they were in front of a fucking coin shop and he offered to go in and verify the bar was real. She was more concerned about the chocolate bar being real.
It's up to about $160 for the silver bar. A lot of the silver bars you can buy have images in them, like a name or the American Flag and stuff like that. I wonder if it just looked like one of those fake candy coin things, and people thought they were comparing a new, wrapped Hershey bar with an old, stale "chocolate" bar. I noticed nobody even held the silver bar. Hershey should actually run that as a commercial.