Irishguy42
Mr. Preachy
This literally happens all the time in sports over in Europe. By grown adults.
It's a non issue.
It's a non issue.
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Won't disagree with you there. The Rangers absolutely lack that.
He could have shown it in many other ways other than immediately taking his medal off and throwing it into the crowd though. His interview response was more than enough of an answer.
Irishguy42
Mr. Preachy
Hockey needs more of this kind of passion and intensity. f*** "he doesnt have class" or "he doesn't show sportsmanship."
Grow up. Sports are becoming more intense and passionate like this because of how competitive it's gotten. Emotion like this has been growing for a while.
If Canada lost and one of their players did this, so many people would be praising it and Don Cherry would petition to have a parade for the kid.
Speaking of which...Coach's Corner is going to be lit.
Anyway, the hypocrisy is real.
There is nothing wrong with what Lias did.
Grow up. Sports are becoming more intense and passionate like this because of how competitive it's gotten. Emotion like this has been growing for a while.
If Canada lost and one of their players did this, so many people would be praising it and Don Cherry would petition to have a parade for the kid.
Speaking of which...Coach's Corner is going to be lit.
Anyway, the hypocrisy is real.
There is nothing wrong with what Lias did.
yeah, I agree with @Irishguy42 Sweden feel silver is the same like a loss and Lias felt the same way, and no one should be happy with that even though it`s a good achievement reaching the final. I read he got his medal though after the event the same day.
Steve Kournianos
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Canadian media already feasting on this gift of a side story.
Rangers should publicly protect him, say he's passionate etc. Advise him behind closed doors to apologize.
People are super forgiving after public apologies.
Rangers should publicly protect him, say he's passionate etc. Advise him behind closed doors to apologize.
People are super forgiving after public apologies.
FireGerardGallant
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Who cares what the Canadian media says? For Andersson to have to apologize for something so meaningless is ridiculous.
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Because Twitter is a cesspit of stupidity...
FireGerardGallant
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A lot of meaningless and dumb things trend on twitter. Barstool was able to get trending once by doing absolutely nothing. This will be all forgotten within a month. Its not like he went Ron Artest or Mike Millbury and jumped into the crowd to fight someone, he flipped his medal over to some guy people need to stop overreacting
How quickly can this kid get here? Lots of overreacting over nothing. Nice to see someone care.
Steve Kournianos
@thedraftanalyst
True but that didn't answer the question.
People -- stupid or not -- consider it far from meaningless.
Look at this thread - 4 or 5 pages of "MedalGate" rather than the play on the ice.
Machinehead
GoAwayTrouba
To be fair, I do think it's cruel to make guys stand there and be part of ceremony when they just lost. Just send them the medals.
The guys who take the bronze have no problem accepting them because they didn't just lose.
The guys who take the bronze have no problem accepting them because they didn't just lose.
But that doesn't make it meaningful, just immediate. For whatever reason, people feel compelled to use social media constantly, which means they have to continue to post and discuss things. this was something that happened recently, so it will be discussed until something else happens.
If we (and Twitter) are still talking about this a lot in 72 hours, then I'll agree that it is meaningful, until then it's just more idle chatter by those who are bored (which includes me on this forum
).
Steve Kournianos
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But that doesn't make it meaningful, just immediate. For whatever reason, people feel compelled to use social media constantly, which means they have to continue to post and discuss things. this was something that happened recently, so it will be discussed until something else happens.
If we (and Twitter) are still talking about this a lot in 72 hours, then I'll agree that it is meaningful, until then it's just more idle chatter by those who are bored (which includes me on this forum
Well it'll be at least another 24 hours since Cherry will spend most of tomorrow's CC talking about the WJC and Andersson.
FireGerardGallant
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100% agreed I'm shocked more stuff like this hasn't happened before. Only other thing I can remember was Kovalchuck and others of team Russia walking off the ice during the Canadian national anthem.
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Pavel Buchnevich
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He defends way better at age 17 than Karlsson did, and he's like 3-4 inches taller. He's like a combination of Lidstrom and Karlsson.
Pavel Buchnevich
Drury and Laviolette Must Go
I think that second is always better than third and third better than fourth. I also think you can learn valuable lessons from not winning, but I can't see how anything other than first is acceptable in someone's mind.
And obviously you don't always get your way, you gotta deal with not always getting what you want, but I personally do not think there's a problem with only being okay with first place.
Harbour Dog
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Pretty sure that if Sweden had won and Dube had thrown his silver medal into the crowd, then a very high percentage of the people that are okay with what Lias did would be calling Dube down to the dirt, while those of us saying that it wasn't an okay thing to do would still be saying that.
Harbour Dog
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I'm Canadian, and if one of our players did that I would consider it a black eye on the program.
Reffing was awful in this game for the Swedes. Really feel for them.
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