8bit: Canada DEFEATS United States in an epic showdown

8bit 02.28.10	yeh.
R6Rider 02.28.10	Versus*
coneren 02.28.10	CANADA!!
8bit 02.28.10	yeeeer canada
Trundle 02.28.10	just scored
8bit 02.28.10	CANADA SCORES!
bloc 02.28.10	MUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA
8bit 02.28.10	any canadians in the house?
8bit 02.28.10	BRUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
eternium 02.28.10	U.S. beat them once, we can do it again.
8bit 02.28.10	na, i dun think so.
americanohno 02.28.10	America would kick canada's ass in a rap battle.
8bit 02.28.10	That wouldn't make any sense since we do not have to pay for our health benefit expense. what.
eternium 02.28.10	Therefore Canada won't go broke after the U.S. beats their ass.
bloc 02.28.10	8bit is the shit
8bit 02.28.10	We'll just see about that.
natey 02.28.10	BORRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN IN THE USAAAAA
Athom 02.28.10	I'm pulling for Canada. It's their national sport on home ice. As an American though, it is nice to see people finally give a fuck about hockey, even if it's only for 2 weeks.
March_Of_Sand 02.28.10	America! Fuck Yea! C'mon tie it up in the second.
BallsToTheWall 02.28.10	Same as Redskies except my American nationalism is kicking in to the max.
8bit 02.28.10	na, im sorry that cant happen.
tiesthatbind 02.28.10	BORRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN IN THE USAAAAA (x2)
somberlain 02.28.10	"It's their national sport on home ice. As an American though, it is nice to see people finally give a fuck about hockey, even if it's only for 2 weeks" the difference is if the US wins they'll be happy for a few days then forget about it, if Canada loses, it will be devastating and haunt them for the next 4 yrs
bloc 02.28.10	Actually Lacrosse is our national sport, but the hell with it.
8bit 02.28.10	America isn't even grateful that we Canadians invented the basketball hoop. What would you Americans even be without your basketball hoop?
natey 02.28.10	we're gonna score 3 goals next peeriod
ihopeuchoke 02.28.10	USA! USA! USA!
Athom 02.28.10	with all the hype the game is getting at these olympics i find it absolutely absurd that the NHL is thinking of not allowing its players to compete in the next olympics, especially because there is no way in hell Ovechkin is not gonna play in 2014 in Russia.
8bit 02.28.10	Everything that has to do with Canada MUST to be linked to the way of the "OLD PEOPLE".
JulesWin 02.28.10	yea redsky this is the only time americans care about hockey! it would be absurd to not let the NHL compete in 2014
Phantom 02.28.10	i vote for the flappy heads
Mikesn 02.28.10	i would rather be watching the nhl than this dumb tournament tbh, to hell with ovechkin good game so far though
8bit 02.28.10	Not that Television Ratings are what the Olympics are all about, but they would go way.. way.. down if that were to happen.
JWT155 02.28.10	While most Americans don't care about hockey, their are many who do, including myself. Pittsburgh and Buffalo are huge Hockey towns.
Athom 02.28.10	I've been a lifelong Pens fan and even I can admit I love to watch Ovechkin on the ice, so what if he's a total dick, he's too damn good.
KieranV 02.28.10	need more shots on goal and less that are deflected. PLEASE. go USA.
LG 02.28.10	Canada's already won...I mean Crosby pretty much gaurentees victory.
8bit 02.28.10	The Pittsburgh Penguins wouldn't even be where they are right now (location) if it wasn't for Crosby/Malkin/Staal/Fleury
eternium 02.28.10	The places where it actually snows in America do care about hockey.
8bit 02.28.10	POWERPLAIIIIIII CANNNANDDDAAAAAAAA
8bit 02.28.10	That makes sense. Too bad about those two teams in Florida.
JulesWin 02.28.10	@ redsky and JWT I know there are hardcore hockey fans in the US and there always will be but if they want to grow their sport and reach the average fan, the olympics are the time to do it
JWT155 02.28.10	The only way the NHL will become more popular is they have to reach some sort of deal with ESPN, otherwise they'll never get coverage (just like it is now where hockey is covered like 20 mins a day while the NBA which is on ESPN is covered 20 mins every 30 mins.),
coneren 02.28.10	YYYYYEEEESSSSSS
Trundle 02.28.10	hey remember when we just scored? i do
8bit 02.28.10	NBC is actually doing a good job of getting hockey out to their fans. Every Sunday they'll play a game on their network, but only if it's an important game (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago) P.S. ahem GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLL. YEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!
JulesWin 02.28.10	well JWT you're right, take that up with your idiot comissioner Bettman who thinks he doesn't need anybody
eternium 02.28.10	Hey, does anybody know what the most watched television event in Canadian history is?
8bit 02.28.10	The Opening Ceremonies to these Olympics.
eternium 02.28.10	Fuck, I should have Googled this before. But yeah, the Superbowl was like the biggest or one of them before.
8bit 02.28.10	STOP CRASHING THE NET.
8bit 02.28.10	pierre mcguire should quit his job.
natey 02.28.10	GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
8bit 02.28.10	na, its okay canada. cheer up, we still have the lead.
Trundle 02.28.10	HYPHY
March_Of_Sand 02.28.10	GGGOOOAAALLL!!!
cirq 02.28.10	fuck canada.
JWT155 02.28.10	2-1, you can do this USA.
Trundle 02.28.10	Canada wins kkthxbai
8bit 02.28.10	Shouldn't you guys be in a recession or something?
natey 02.28.10	shouldn't you guys be just some random country no one ever thinks about?
eternium 02.28.10	Damn, that last minute was intense.
Athom 02.28.10	"if they want to grow their sport and reach the average fan, the olympics are the time to do it" ummm that's been my stance this entire thread.
JulesWin 02.28.10	"that's been my stance this entire thread" yea I know and I agree. it's just that you and JWT seemed to take offense to me saying that no one in the US cares about hockey, I know there are fans but it's a small group and hockey doesn't reach the average person
KieranV 02.28.10	needs moar zach parise
Athom 02.28.10	I live in southern california. the only ice people ever see here is in their freezer.
Jethro42 02.28.10	fuck cirq
JulesWin 02.28.10	lol! I'm in SoCal too but there are small pockets of rabid Kings fans and the sport hasn't really taken off in Florida has it?
Athom 02.28.10	last year i went to a kings/blackhawks game and I've never seen so many armenians in one place before
Burn2Burn 02.28.10	canada ftw
JulesWin 02.28.10	"I've never seen so many armenians in one place before" go to Glendale!
Athom 02.28.10	HAHAHAHAHA i used to work in glendale... Oh man...
JulesWin 02.28.10	"i used to work in glendale" HAHA so you know what I'm talking about then
JWT155 02.28.10	@Redsky - How the hell are you living in Canada and became a Pens fan? lol
JWT155 02.28.10	*California, this thread has made me get Canada on the brain.
8bit 02.28.10	"I'm in SoCal too but there are small pockets of rabid Kings fans and the sport hasn't really taken off in Florida has it?" Well, the thing is, the Kings are like 4rd in their conference right now, so the better the team is doing, the more the teams are going to be praised, obviously. Tampa Bay won the championship a few years ago and hockey has become popular there, along with Pittsburgh, Carolina and now, Chicago.
8bit 02.28.10	"How the hell are you living in Canada and became a Pens fan?" Two words, Sidney. Crosby.
JWT155 02.28.10	Hockey's been popular in Pittsburgh long before we won a Championship last year dude.
eternium 02.28.10	Come on America, at least score once and keep Canada from scoring.
EliteChiefModerator 02.28.10	The 12 minute breaks are pretty lame
JWT155 02.28.10	See I hate people who hop on bandwagons or like teams because of one player. I've grown up in Pittsburgh most of my life and even though we won the cup last year the late 90' Pens teams are still my favorite.
JulesWin 02.28.10	"so the better the team is doing, the more the teams are going to be praised" except than when the ducks won it, not many people around here seemed to care
8bit 02.28.10	"Hockey's been popular in Pittsburgh long before we won a Championship last year dude." I know it has. That team has been there for three or fours decades. They're just getting more popular in Canada because of how well they are doing with Sid on their team. I can't really take the entire country into account when I say that, but I live in his home Province, so Pittsburgh is pretty much 5 times more popular than Toronto or Montreal. I know, I know. Cool story bro.
Athom 02.28.10	My dad grew up in pittsburgh and when he got me into sports when i was a little kid he'd always watch pens/steelers games and I've been a fan ever since. Last year was almost perfection for me because my favorite sports teams are the Pens/Steelers/Lakers/Dodgers.
8bit 02.28.10	@Jules. What about San Jose? Are they very popular?
JWT155 02.28.10	Very nice, Last year was perfection for me. Growing up in the Burgh don't really have an NBA team. Then the Steelers, Pens and Yankees won so I was ecstatic.
Athom 02.28.10	no bandwagon jumping here.
Athom 02.28.10	i fucking hate the yankees
JulesWin 02.28.10	well San Jose is 3-4 hrs away so no, nobody here cares about them
JWT155 02.28.10	Was born in upstate NY and my Mom's whole side of the family are die hard Yankee fans. I obviously like the Pirates but I also root for the Buffalo Sabres and Bills.
Athom 02.28.10	The sharks have a nice fanbase in the bay area and sacramento
Athom 02.28.10	liking the Pirates is futile. until they pay for players and don't trade away everyone that makes them at best barely watchable every year at the trade deadline fuck em
JWT155 02.28.10	I purposefully didn't go to a game last year, the only game before that I went to was the Yankee Pirates game and I was decked out in my Jeter jersey. I agree, I'm not supporting them until they show they at least have a remote interest in competition.
Athom 02.28.10	I think the last time I was even remotely interested in a Pirates game Andy Van Slyke was still in the league.
8bit 02.28.10	Anyone watching the game?
JWT155 02.28.10	Wow, that's like 95'-96' ish. I've followed them every year pretty much, favorite team was early 2000's when we had Aramis Ramirez, Brian Giles, Jason Shmidt, Jason Bay, Oliver Perez, Kris Bensen... yea we had those players and still sucked.
Jethro42 02.28.10	Dernière minute de jeu Last minute of play
eternium 02.28.10	FUCK YEAH AMERICA. TIED.
natey 02.28.10	fucking GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
8bit 02.28.10	!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JWT155 02.28.10	DO YOU BELIEVE IN MOTHER FUCKING MIRACLES!!!!!!!!!!
Athom 02.28.10	GOD DAMN! THIS IS INTENSE!
Crysis 02.28.10	holy SHIT what a game
Mikesn 02.28.10	saw it coming wow great game
Yazz_Flute 02.28.10	USA USA USA USA
JWT155 02.28.10	We got the momentum baby, the arena is cold silent.
8bit 02.28.10	AM I THE ONLY CANADIAN HERE?
March_Of_Sand 02.28.10	OVERTIME!
EliteChiefModerator 02.28.10	canada got too defensive
JWT155 02.28.10	I'm proud we just got it to overtime.
KieranV 02.28.10	as i said, NEEDED MOAR PARISE. got more parise.
theacademy 02.28.10	that was awesome sorry lights. RYAN MILLER.
8bit 02.28.10	If we lose, I'll put the link to my rap crew up here.
hando 02.28.10	omg
KieranV 02.28.10	we still need MOAR ZACH PARISE. ONE MORE BABY
8bit 02.28.10	nope.
JulesWin 02.28.10	I got 2 words for Canada: UH OH!
LG 02.28.10	Nah I'm here with ya 8bit. Canada's got it in the bag, look at USA there legs are shaking, there about ready to wet themselves.
JWT155 02.28.10	Hope your ready to possibly eat your words Lisbon.
JulesWin 02.28.10	@ LibsonGirls I disagree, Canada is under much more pressure, this is their sport and they're at home. they're SUPPOSED to win
LG 02.28.10	Exactly why the states are gonna lose...I'll eat my own ass if Canada loses JWt
coneren 02.28.10	YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OOOHHHH CANADA
eternium 02.28.10	Fuck.
JWT155 02.28.10	Good game, and sadly my boy Crosby came through.
Jethro42 02.28.10	ET LE BUUUUUUT
8bit 02.28.10	YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!
LG 02.28.10	Fuck that was intense. Good job for both teams.
8bit 02.28.10	"Hope your ready to possibly eat your words Lisbon." That brought the LOLz.
JWT155 02.28.10	Crosby's a hell of a player, wouldn't have picked losing any better.
JulesWin 02.28.10	great game, props to Sid the Kid but Ryan Miller was a fucking beast
coneren 02.28.10	What an awesome game
March_Of_Sand 02.28.10	FUCK CROSBY
LG 02.28.10	Crosby's a saint, watch yo mouth kid.
bungy 02.28.10	That was fucking intense.
JWT155 02.28.10	And who does Crosby play for EVERY season??? :D
8bit 02.28.10	Check out Americans faces as they are awarded their medals
KieranV 02.28.10	fuck.
JWT155 02.28.10	Yea, they;re devastated cause they lost, what do you expect? You guys should have won the game, the fact it was that close speaks volumes about our guys.
LG 02.28.10	Ya, but where did Crosby grow up, and learn to play? Fucking Tim Hortons ftw.
Mikesn 02.28.10	I hate Crosby but that was clutch, nice kudos to the american team, amazing game
KieranV 02.28.10	place went nuts for ryan miller
KieranV 02.28.10	NHL starts back tomorrow, go devils :o
Yotimi 02.28.10	Helluva game. And I never watch hockey.
8bit 02.28.10	I'm not saying that JWT. It was a really close game, and it couldn't of ended any better than the way it did. I'm actually glad it ended in overtime tbh.
EliteChiefModerator 02.28.10	Great game, glad Canada won it
Crysis 02.28.10	Awesome game, congratulations to Canada for winning.
YouAreMySilence 02.28.10	Fuck yea!
Athom 02.28.10	glad miller was named Olympic MVP
JulesWin 02.28.10	"glad miller was named Olympic MVP" it was a no-brainer
Athom 02.28.10	obviously, but still it makes me glad.
shindip 02.28.10	FUCKING AWESOME GAME. Crosbys winning goal was fucking ace
cirq 03.01.10	fuck canada.
cirq 03.01.10	..fuck canada.
KieranV 03.01.10	the better team won, but god it sucks :o
Jethro42 03.01.10	...
Pebster49 03.01.10	Well USA fought hard, now lets up my Sharks can do something this year. I hope Jumbo, Patty, and Heater are not just satisfied with a gold medal. I want a CUP!
Enotron 03.01.10	"fuck canada" Cirq I'm having a hard time hearing you over Canada's free healthcare benefits.
bloc 03.01.10	Owned
willfellmarsy 03.01.10	canada:where healthcare is free and you live in mediocrity, seeing all the talented people in your country head to the United States...
JWT155 03.01.10	And whose Prime Ministers decide to have important surgeries done in the US instead of Canada... Hmmmm.
Mikesn 03.01.10	nobody's?
JWT155 03.01.10	Really... http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h0QC7bditrEb3wYz_6_b-gsGGDxA
Mikesn 03.01.10	that isn't the prime minister bro
Enotron 03.01.10	Hey look, I cite what Fox News says about Canada as fact. What is it about life in Canada that is so "mediocre"? Perhaps its the less amount of bills they have to put up with there. Or perhaps its the fact that college and healthcare is free? That must really suck. The majority of 1st world nations by this point have single payer healthcare systems. France has Universal healthcare, and they have what is considered to be the best healthcare system in the world. The quality of life there in general is great. Perhaps if the US wasn't so tradition based, we could progress a bit.
willfellmarsy 03.01.10	and where do all the doctors with real ability go? Athletes? Singers? Actors? Etc. free healthcare and college makes people never take a risk, always get by and stagnate...it makes life easy, basically it's the way a pussy wants to live, without effort...
Enotron 03.01.10	Well according to your standards then, poor people don't deserve to go to college and they don't deserve healthcare. Basically you want nothing to be socialized, no taxes, right? So would you enjoy giving your atm number every time you called 911? Or maybe you would enjoy having to pay for education, kindergarden all the way to your senior year in high school. Or maybe there should be an insurance business for driving on the highway as well.....highways are socialized as well right? And I guess when you're older you'll refuse your social security checks? So if you think somebody's a pussy for not wanting to pay thousands of dollars for breaking an arm or getting cancer, than you have an odd definition of the word pussy.
Enotron 03.01.10	"The Canadian health care system has a great reputation, but this is a very specialized piece of surgery that had to be done and I went to somebody who's doing this three or four times a day, five, six days a week." A) That's not the prime minister B) In Canada you can choose your doctor. This system there is fine, the man just wanted to find the most professional person there is, and the fact that the doctor was American was merely a coincidence. In Canada they have a single payer system; the government insures healthcare, but the doctors do not have to consult with the government and they run their own practice. The doctors in Canada go through all the same process as Americans do to become a doctor, they are no more, no less qualified.
KieranV 03.01.10	there really is nothing wrong with canada. coming from an american
cvlts 03.01.10	I think its bout that time we ditch Iraq and hit Canada lol
8bit 03.02.10	funny.
KieranV 03.02.10	zach parise is the man :( he was sad cause he tied it up all for naught :(((((((
willfellmarsy 03.02.10	enotron...how many important people in the world today (including famous canadians) make their money in Canada? Stay in Canada...very few...and where do the true dreamers, geniuses, talented people head? those who work hard in America get scholarships for their efforts...it means something to graduate from an american college while in Canada anyone can go...my education from kindergarden to 8th grade was paid for. why? because to get the best you need to pay...i would have paid for high school had not, through my own merits and effort, I been awarded a full scholarship...who put in the money for that scholarship? Someone who paid to attend the high school i went to, who did not settle for a mediocre public school, and who sought to bring those who worked hard from a young age to their school... To be great, one must know poverty and strive out of it...a canadian never faces the trials of poverty, so most are mediocre and the ones that aren't go to America You can pick a doctor in Canada, but that does not change the fact that the best doctors come from countries in which they had to work extremely hard to get that education, paid through effort to achieve fruits and now are at the top...socialism is for those who do not wish to be anything but average... A canadian doctor does not go through the same thing as an American doctor because their education is freely given and they do not know desperation or risk
Enotron 03.02.10	Well that's a nice little speech, but education in America, except for college, is socialized. In a mixed economy, which is what Canada has, everybody is offered an equal oppurtunity regardless of their economic status, and what you make of that oppurtunity determines how succesful you are. Your argument based on how decent the doctors are makes no sense. If somebody succesfully goes through medical school, aces the courses, then they will be a proficient doctor. My dad had to pay off his college debts for years and he did get a scholarship, scholarships only fully cover everything if you literally do perfect in high school, and if you except all the lower class to exceed over the average standards for those richer than them, you're morals are mixed up. Well we clearly have different views on these things. This is all I have left to say; healthcare is a human right and money should be the last thing in mind when it comes to it.
willfellmarsy 03.02.10	an intelligent argument on sputnik whodda thunk it...let's have sex!
PuddlesPuddles 03.02.10	asl