Did anyone REALLY miss the NHL while it was gone during the Olympic break ?
145846
no way! come on get a life. olympics come once every 2 years and winter olympics come once every 4 years! try something new. look at skeliten or downhill ski racing instead.
1013436
Not as bad as Canadian hockey fans felt at the Olympics, but still pretty bad. I had my pro-Swiss answer deleted on YA France; it was considered "not an answer" but it was, I think they're touchy! LOL.\n\nOh and thanks for deleting the Sweden question.\n\nHopp Schwiiitz!
107639
No, but it was once a ball. Ice hockey started by using the ball from field hockey (naturally), but it was too bouncy, so they cut it into a disc.
466459
it has always been like that, and depending on who you ask, one is always better than the other. After seeing the 2006 olympics, i have a preference for the nhl rinks because now the games are always by the same rules(before, international and nhl were slightly different) and the smaller ice allows for more hitting and a faster game!
971605
I caught a few games when they were in the IHL.  Too bad the IHL folded. \n\n_
1070779
I miss the whalers with all of my heart and it sickened me to see Carolina celebrate with the Stanley Cup.   That should've been CT have a victory parade not those dawn Carolina who think icing is just frosting on a cake!!!  Okay okay I am done venting now!!!
1042853
I have.  June 7, 2004.  Tampa Bay Lightning and Calgary Flames.  It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.  Through the New York Islanders, The Montreal Canadiens, The Philadelphia Flyers, numerous injuries, right up to game 7, and more people that didn't believe, than I could count, still we won it.  On the way to game 7 of the Final, I saw a liscense plate, and it said "WIL2WIN" on it.  That was something I will never forget, I knew we were going to win it, no matter what, and seeing my boys lift the historic cup over thier heads, still brings tears to my eyes.
1134380
yeah i am. the trick is looking forward to the next season and finding a replacement sport. i suggest soccer with the fIFA world cup on every day it is a great way to get your mind of hockey try it. if it doesnot work im sorry my be play your own hockey games with your friends.
102733
I remember back in 1984 being enthralled by the Olympics in Los Angeles. Every night for two weeks, my family was glued to the set to get the updates from the day's events.  We didn't have to watch 8- to 10-hours of coverage to see who won. All we had to do was wait until prime-time and we could see in one hour who the big winners were, and then spend another one or two hours watching a live event.\n\nNow, 20 years later, around-the-clock coverage is given on no fewer than 10 stations, not counting the foreign language presentations.  The updates my family got when I was a kid are only given briefly on the fly from one event to another.\n\nI feel overwhelmed with all of the coverage. It feels like the covering network has placed that much coverage to fit in all the big-name sponsors and to sell their shows.  Granted, if it weren't for this type of coverage, we wouldn't see some of the more unusual events, like curling, which in the past were treated as more of a side-bar of the games.  But the complete onslaught of the games is a bit much.
116987
Sadly, not yet. But if I were to go, as chilly a prospect as it may be, I would have to choose the Winter Olympics. Gotta love that figure skating!
564584
It was there from the beginning.  in fact, hockey was first played at the summer olympics in 1908, before there even was a winter olympics.
21965
I don't think the people in Montreal know that the Expos are gone!! It's Canada and they love hockey. It was really sad how many people would actually go to the games. More people showed up when they were playing in Puerto Rico.
154388
I used to watch the Olympics when I was a little kid, but now I find them quite boring.  \n\nIt just doesn't interest me at all.  I suppose I would rather see the nations of the world get together to try to figure out our problems, then seeing a bunch of people ice skating.  \n\nHowever, for some people it is entertaining and it makes their lives better, and that is great.  It just doesn't do that for me.
217780
All the way, through and through.\nWhat better memory then "The brawl in Hockeytown"?\n\nGot a real shot this year....\n\nDid you know that the last two times there was a "Olympic break" that the Red Wings won the cup?
395031
Disappointing to see a Canadian team out of the playoffs, but coming from an Avalanche fan, that's good for me!  Can't really put a finger on what happened to the Canucks this year, started off really well but I think it was a combination of injuries, inconsistent goaltending and Naslund/Morrison/Bertuzzi never really getting going.  I think Crawford's time has come as well as Bertuzzi and possibly Naslund as well.  Will be changes for next year.
415609
Definitely not.  The closest I could surmise this to mean is that hoops has replaced baseball as the US's 2nd most popular sport... of course that tends to happen when you cancel a season due to a strike/lockout (look how it's hurt hockey), it always takes a while to get people who were huge fans before the season stoppage back.
1163684
Yeah. I'm Canadian, and while I would have liked to see the cup back in Canada - I remember visiting some friends in North Carolina and looking at the stats last November and the Hurricanes were at the top of the conference.  I kept an eye on them all year - and you know what - as cool as it would have been to see eighth place (in the west) Edmonton come and win it - The Hurricanes totally DESERVED to win - they worked their butts off all year and game 7 - they were relentless and outplayed the Oilers hands down.  I'm happy for them.  I feel bad for the Oilers, but they've won the cup more than a few times - and The Hurricanes haven't.  Given they are an expansion team I think it's good for the south to have a Stanley Cup winner and spread the thrill of hockey to a region that is learning the joy of the game!