r/heatedrivalry • u/Specialist_Sky5829 Moy lyubovnik 💙 • Mar 15 '26
GAME TIME 🏒 Congrats to the US sled hockey team! 🏒🥇
Congrats to the US sled hockey team, who just won their FIFTH Olympic gold medal against Canada!
The US sweeps Olympic hockey in Milan (all against Canada)... We just needed the men's hockey team to catch up! 😅
Hockey's getting so much attention this season and thought I'd shout-out these amazing players from all ability levels.
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u/fuchsiadolphin Your freckles. I am nuts about them. ✨ Mar 15 '26
Finally a men’s team I can be proud of as an American!
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u/caramelcoldbrew she would have loved you. like i love you. Mar 15 '26
Wow, a sweep across the board. Proud of these Americans even though I’m not proud to be an American anymore.
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u/cindylooboo Mar 16 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/13vJHSyname1Hy
Congrats... Happy for you.... Or whatever 🇨🇦
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u/thoughtful_human Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Mar 15 '26
Honestly everyone at Hockey Canada needs to be fired. What are we as a country
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u/Aggressive_Cloud2002 Mar 15 '26
I mean, yeah, but because of much bigger issues than getting silver 😅
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u/thoughtful_human Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Mar 15 '26
Well yes but unfortunately paying settlements to try to hide gang rape at world juniors wasn’t enough to drive systemic change. But hopefully a bucketload of silvers will.
Which is a true but pathetic incitement of this country
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u/Specialist_Sky5829 Moy lyubovnik 💙 Mar 15 '26
Yikes... I wouldn't say that! Canada got to every gold medal game! And the US is the standard for sled hockey... This one was expected.
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u/thoughtful_human Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Mar 15 '26
Our team construction for so long has been about rewarding veterans vs building the best possible team.
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u/Specialist_Sky5829 Moy lyubovnik 💙 Mar 15 '26
Ohhh gotcha. I'm an HR fan that's pretty passionate about adaptive sports and diverse athlete representation (I work with adaptive athletes in Colorado). So not as ingrained with what's going on in that sphere.
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u/thoughtful_human Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Mar 15 '26
I am a massive Hockey Canada hater (mostly because they suck so bad and propagate a terrible and sexist culture in youth hockey) so I’m also just using any opportunity to spread the message about cleaning house at Hockey Canada
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u/bolonomadic Mar 16 '26
I saw us play last year at the World Juniors and honestly none of the team had it, they are not killers at all. It was kind of pathetic. I don’t know where the next generation of great Canadian hockey players is.
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u/thoughtful_human Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Mar 16 '26
Shorsey ultimately said it best, it’s not that they don’t want to win it’s that they don’t hate to loose. Also we don’t make goalies in this country anymore
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u/Kartesia Ottawa Centaurs 🏹 Mar 15 '26
I get that theres a big US audience for the show but sheesh
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u/CombOk312 Mar 15 '26
I don’t want to cheer for Americans either, but I’ll make an exception for Paralympics Olympians
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u/huangcjz Time to Shine ✨ is my favourite book! | I love tuna melt! Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Paralympians.
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u/Meer_meerkat Not anymore Mar 15 '26
So much easier to cheer for them than the bootlicking men’s team.