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The French captain seems more angry at his own guy than Wilson so it seems like there’s something missing to the story here…https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/france-removes-player-who-fought-tom-wilson-from-olympic-hockey-roster/

If you ever get a chance to try curling please do - it’s super fun! it’s a very friendly and sportsman like sport and really enjoyable.

yum…aged properly those are perfectly safe. We source some from Quebec that are sooooo good - I live in wine country so cheese is big here.

I can only speak to my own experience. I never raised teenage girls, but my teenage boys could go through milk at a shocking rate. At a certain point you just give up and feed them as many potatoes as you can.🤷‍♀️

omg - teenage boys!

runs on fear? …funny term for “avoiding serious illness when there is no obvious advantage to the risk” - but hey, you do you!

Mackinnon seems happy!! 🤷‍♀️

I’d pay good money to know what was said on the ice - when the official took Tom to the box and chatted with him, he didn’t look upset. He looked like he was sort of nodding and agreeing with Wilson. Plus Wilson did try to skate away.

Totally fair.

Did you ever see the movie the blindside? Remember that part where the kid is identified as having a huge protective instinct? I think that’s Wilson. He is skilled but he very much believes that you protect your teammates - maybe it’s because he’s the middle kid of three boys…🤷‍♀️

He was what Boudreau wanted him to be and he’s had to overcome that. He is a very good dude - polite, considerate and respectful. McKinnon called him a great teammate and McDavid called him a forechecking God. Hockey is a rough sport - I am a retired hockey mom and it was
hard to watch at times.

he’s also their leading scorer and ADORED in Washington. He does his job.

I think Wilson wanted to scare the guy off, but not necessarily fight. He’s been warned by everybody not to fight but Crinon did something that made him angry. McKinnon called him a good teammate so I’m happy.

well, if you know so much about hockey, you might’ve known that those were Linesmen not refs…🤷‍♀️

… and then these business men win, caught out blame “liberals”. So they aren’t firefighters they are arsonists.

or people…

haha… it’s called the tournament of hearts, just finished before the Olympics! 🥌❤️

Thank you to your service for no food waste!!! ❤️

As a Canadian curler I agree 💯- there are many Canadians unhappy with this behaviour. I learned sportsmanship on a curling rink 45 years ago in northern Canada, and this is NOT acceptable.

yes, this is 💯 correct - I posted this elsewhere but if I’ve known you for 25 years, I would probably say something to you out of respect for our friendship, but sportsmanship requires that you deal with the judge, not the opponent. 100%

exactly- somebody got sloppy here

We would’ve died for eight hours of ice time! We were always battling with the hockey players for ice time -ugh 5 am practice! Any sport takes a level of obsession- a willingness to endure pain both physically and emotionally for your sport. The skiers - yikes!!!! those falls!!! 🫣😳

🤣… as someone who has spent a significant amount of their life on ice, we love it!!!! 🥶❄️🧊

Yeah, that’s up to the COC and curling canada to address - they signed off on a code of behaviour ethics just like everybody else. Certainly not behaviour to be proud of. 😔

🤣🫣🤣

I’m not defending the Canadian AT ALL but the Swedish skip asked the Judge to come and watch their release, at that point his issue is with the judge not with the other team.

it was disgusting, but the fact remains by banning that poor Ukrainian young man, they drew more attention to his helmet not less. shame on you IOC.

The Swedish skip should’ve had a conversation w/ the Canadian skip when he first saw it. He handled it poorly - you see it the first time you call it out and you tell them if I see it again I’ll be calling you on it. Every single curling club in the world goes through this. 🙄

Fiala tried to reverse hit to avoid being boarded, and if you watch the replay, Fiala actually left the ice with both feet which makes him super vulnerable. I can’t fault Wilson for that - I think it was just a really awkward collision.

I think when they brought the IIHF officials over to train with the NHL refs, we knew that hitting would be a bigger part of the game. I gotta think Cooper knows what he’s doing.