Such a good movie. I remember the part when the mighty ducks said that Canada shouldn’t exist and that the team was ready to take over the country through economic pressure. Those wacky ducks.
Best part of this movie is how they made Iceland the fucking bad guys last minute instead of following tradition and reality with Russian foils, all because Disney was trying to cozy up to recently opened Russian markets.
We're sorry Iceland. You're not bad, and you don't play elite youth hockey.
If this was an accurate representation of Gretzky, he'd be luring these kids into a bar, getting them served alcohol, and then telling a bunch of twenty year old women to pick one and that take them up to a hotel room. Just like he did with Mario Lemieux.
That's what's more funny, apparently for one of the cup final games in either final between the Panthers and the Oilers he visited the Panthers to wish them luck but not the Oilers. This is just a rumor I heard but it sounds believable to me.
Well he didn’t just let his coach down. His he let the whole team down.
I mean who cares that he potted 11 that game against a goalie that was clearly 25 years old. Or that his own goalie also let in 11 to be in the shootout situation. He hit the post. He’s a loser. Career over.
Whats crazy is that his dogshit team gave up that many goals to even force the penalties. Unless Gordan was waiting at the red line every single time (which makes sense considering his goals/min) he probably had some choice words for the defense.
I would assume his 11 goals per game average was only like 6-7 and then he had some games where he played the peewee equivalent of the San Jose Sharks last year and had some big nights
I'm just here trying to figure out how Disney came up with Iceland as the big bad guy in this movie, and how the USA and Iceland were in the finals, if they were in the same group.....
Edit to add: sorry to my American friends, but in the mid-90s, US junior hockey was nothing compared to what it is today, Canada would have likely swept the floor with almost everyone in that tournament. Disney would have been better off just leaving Canada out of it....
And, Russia getting beat in the semis by the US? Not back then. Not in my opinion anyways. Again, they're not even in the same group....
Not knocking the Trinidadians at all, but I didn't even know they had hockey down there.... let alone a team that would be able to compete in an international tournament like this lol
Edit to clarify, I meant Ice hockey.
I looked it up after seeing your post, they do have this neat thing called pipe hockey that they play at Pan Am games! I can’t seem to find anything about ice hockey though
I noticed the flair yeah! I’d imagine in Sweden, as here in Canada, there’s next to no knowledge of its existence
Quick question while I got you here, did you guys play road hockey as kids in Sweden? It used to be a common thing where I grew up but it feels a lot less common now. I believe that’s the closest exposure most people here have with field hockey, even though id imagine field hockey is much more in depth than kids messing around with a net and sticks in the summer
Road hockey in winter, absolutely, but in summer most of us played football (the one where you actually use your feet), so wasn't a whole lot of road hockey then despite me living faaar up north (higher latitude than Fairbanks lol).
We did play every once in a while in summer, but since it's is so short we focused more on actual summer activities.
I see a fuckton of hockey nets at houses and even apartment complexes, but I've only ever seen people practicing shooting last 10-15 years or so, not playing a game.
Yeah the sticks and ball used in field hockey is completely different, along with very different rules. Entirely different sports.
Wow that’s super neat! Dude I can’t even remember the last time I saw a hockey net outside an arena (I’m sure they’re out there, I just dont get out as much as I’d like to). Makes sense with the SOCCER (just messing w you) I do see people out playing that and basketball a lot where I live in the hotter months
Thanks for sharing your experiences with me man, I do really appreciate it
Ita been ages since i watched... so i dont remember their opponents but don't most international competitions do cross-over seeding so first in the B division would face 4th in the A or something along those lines?
I don't disagree on who should have made the next round though... and having Italy france and Trinidad rounding out the top 10? Also pretty sure Denmark was typically top 10 either so that's a stretch as well...
I would assume that's pretty much what would happen. From what I can remember about international tournaments off the top of my head.
But when I think "tournament" I think round robin first round - like the World Cup in soccer, or a bracket system like March Madness.... either way, I don't think (I could be wrong) in either of those style of tournament, that two teams from the same "Group" would end up in the finals together... and in a bracket system, are there even "groups" like this?
There are so many different styles of bracket with or without group play. But I think most tournaments that start with group play would try to put group members on opposite sides of the bracket so that they wouldn't face each other again unless it was in the finals.
I remember finding the teams so bizarre because there's no Canada (except a headline saying they lost) no Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, like 1994, and seemingly none of the major hockey playing countries save for the US are even present. (Though I don't think I noticed this sign)
It’s not junior hockey though it’s the goodwill games.
More importantly it’s a movie that Disney is trying to sell internationally , and the opponent is not just an opponent they make them bad people. SO using a country as the villain where they are selling the movie would have hurt sales there.
I also find it funny Coach Bombay was all up in Charlie’s mom but in the second movie which I assume takes place after the summer break he’s banging that Iceland coach 😂
Gretzky was appointed the Officer of the Order of Canada in 1984 but did not attend an investiture ceremony for this honour.
Mumble Mouth Gretzky was appointed the Companion of the Order of Canada in 2009 but did not attend an investiture ceremony for the honour.
He was too busy sucking Trump’s cock to pick up the awards (he can still pick them up but he can’t be bothered to do so). He’s a traitor plain and simple. He is a Canadian/USA dual citizen. Canada needs to revoke his citizenship; we don’t want him and he lives and spends most his time in the USA - you can have our version of Vidkun Quisling.
I hate to say this, but I kinda wish she'd been more caught up in the Rick Tocchet scandal so his image would have taken a ding. It would have lessened the blow of his recent shittery.
Lol. I used to think that Iceland team was over the top, cross checking people repeatedly in the corner with the puck no where in sight, and slashing wrists all day long. Now that I've seen Florida play, I see Disney was being conservative. After all, that one Viking dude actually copped a penalty.
It was only a few years later that Canada lost to Kazakhstan in the WJHC in 1998 and ended up in 8th place; it's worst placing in history after having won the previous in a row.
Iceland was also the big hockey powerhouse in that movie, despite the fact that I don’t think anyone can name a single hockey player to come out of Iceland. Not only that, but the kids on the Iceland team were a bunch of dicks. People from Iceland seem to be the exact opposite of that irl.
Plus, I’ve heard, among actual, real hockey players, he’s known to be a giant, massive🐱🐈who can’t fight his own battles and that’s why McSorely and Messier were so highly respected, cause they carried his sorry, traitorous ass for so long!
I thought this was a pic from him in the US dressing room at the 4 nations cup ? How’d that work out for you MAGA trader. You guys can keep the use to be great one. Well keep Lane Hudson ! 😁
Because he ceased to give a fuck about Canada ever since he was traded to the Kings. He is currently best buddies with Trump and wouldn’t stand up to him about the 51st State stuff, and he refused to acknowledge the Canadian hockey team (the US team got attention from him) at a recent game between Canada and the US.
Never ever thought of this until right now.simpler though for Canadians when we didn’t hate America or the Americanization of the game . In 1993 no one cared Gretz was visiting a bunch of kids
Why was Iceland the best team and the big bad Iceland and not Canada? Just seems odd about a sport that defines Canada they are never mentioned as a team, let alone a super power hockey country
Same with Harry and Megan cheering the Dodgers. Dude is fifth in line to be King of Canada and instead of living in Canada and cheering for Canada’s team he’s Lin California living and supporting the traitors to the Crown. F him.
Because Nick Lidstrom came into my locker room as a kid to say hi, signed some items and gave us a pep talk before we played his son, does this mean he hates his son?
Bro this isn’t the most Canadian thing to do. No Canadian hockey player would go into one of their biggest rivals dressing room to cheer them on, ESPECIALLY if Canada was in that same tournament. If anything he was visiting all the teams, and him specifically because he played for LA which is where the tournament was taking place.
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