I think luck has nothing to do with it…
there are a multitude of issues with that team, from a bad mix, to bad systems, a highly overrated team and thus a fan base with huge expectations, and only 1 or 2 players you can say have played well all year long… can you imagine if they had half the injury issues we’ve had to deal with? They’d be in the basement with Edmonton fighting over Taylor Hall…

Flames will turn it around tho, right Dan? heheh.. (oh noooooooooooooooooo)

So sad…I just watched it as it came up on the TV…I question why it is so open there…

Damn, R.I.P.

That track looks like a death trap, with all the metal poles on the side, a few feet away from the track. At 144 kms an hour, it is to be expected that in a crash, people will fly up in the air and inevitably hit those poles.

Holy shit.

as I had mentioned previously I was fortunate enough to attend the games in 88 in Calgary, and bobsled and luge were among the events we saw. the speed which those guys and girls travel down the track simplyisn’t portrayed accurately on video, standing right next to the track you really get a sense of how insane this sport is. Keep in mind that technological and training advances have meant increased speed in the 22 years since the Calgary games. The one thing that really hit me right at the start of the video was “oh my god I can’t believe how fast he is going”. A tragic start to the games, let’s hope that they honor him properly tonight. The Georgian Olympic Federation is currently debating whether to participate in the Ceremony or even just pack up and go home. Who could blame them? There will be lots of questions and finger pointing to be sure, even speculation if the track is deemed unsafe that they might move those events to Calgary.

Hrmm…other three Nancy Greene Raine or Ken Read, that speed skating chick, and…who else..womens hockey team player?

You not going to respond with childish language? Then you talk down to me using words like little man and son? Maybe you should re-read the tripe you are posting here dip shit. There I did it again. I don’t need to relax. I was perfectly relaxed. I didn’t “rip” Howe. I said I didn’t think he had any connection to BC or the Olympics. I didn’t know he was part owner of the Giants. Thanks for informing me. I then asked anyone who might know any better if he had played in the Olympics. I honestly don’t know if he did or not I just didn’t think he had. Go back and re-read what I wrote. I didn’t “rip” anyone or talk down to anyone the way you did in response to me.

Maybe I am out to lunch on this but I think it should be someone with stronger ties to BC than Howe. And someone who has Olympic history. Did Howe ever compete in the Winter Olympics? Just cause Hockey is a winter sport and this is the winter Olympics isn’ enough of a link for me to get on board with someone who didn’t get down in the Olympics and compete.

That’s what I originally wrote. I didn’t say anything about you being wrong or anything. I even started by admitting I could be wrong. So don’t try to take the high ground or act like I took things out of context. You fucking started off your post by writing “(sigh) OK Section. Whatever.” Clearly to start your post you have already indicated some sort of exasperation at my opinion and my having the ability to state that opinion. You have also started off by dismissing me by writing OK Whatever. If you think I am reading too much into that or reading wrongly what you meant by that then you need to look in the mirror at the way you are responding to me and what you are writing.

The message is the medium. So if I am reading things into your messages that isn’t there then it is your fault. Learn to express yourself more clearly or expect me to rip you when you write things in a douchey way. That’s the way it is going to be.

Tonight will be a celebration of everything Vancouver has meant and everything it’s going to be.

But can I ask a question that no one has yet been able to answer for me? How does Gretzky fit into that statement? What has Gretz meant to Vancouver or to BC? Great Canadian and great hockey player, up there with Orr as the best ever, but if it’s about Vancouver and BC I am hoping the final person to light the torch is more of a BC person than a Canada person. That’s just me though. I am sure it will be great whatever they decided.