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[olivermoss]

I am not really following Olympic hockey, even though is cool that certain people get to play with each other, etc. It's a good time to take a break. But, things are going well for the Kraken right now. They are spending the break in a play-off spot. We've have some big goals from Kraken and over in Italy, but one of them... was against a Kraken goalie.

All the pictures of Oskar Fisker Molgaard's big goal that the Kraken PR people are posting are angled/edited to not show who it has he got the puck past. So far, Molgaard is the only player to get one past Grubauer.

I'm not currently planning on watching any games. I might if Germany actually gets into medal contention. My one hope for the Olympics is that Binnington does well because people are way too shitty to him and take things he says and does in the worst possible light. I don't care how Canada does overall, but I hope he does well. (Canada is very good at producing top hockey players, but weirdly they don't produce top goalies. So goaltending is a weak point for team Canada and people are freaking out over Canada having Binnington even on the team. But like, the overall state of Canada's goalie production is not his fault. People need to chill about Binnington)

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[rekishi]

Germany is not getting into medal contention. I know Leon is angling for one but with the way the the Slovaks, Czechs, Finns and Swedes are going, no. We would have to be very very lucky for that and looking at that game yesterday and how many of their passes didn't connect, I'm not seeing that happening yet.

Not saying it hasn't happened, I think we have an Olympic silver from 2018, but that was a) luck, b) no one could actually believe it and c) without the NHL in the mix. No. I'd love it for them, but I just don't see it.

I'm watching Olympic hockey because there will be no other time when I get to watch this much hockey on tv in an acceptable time zone, so I'm gorging myself on it now 😂

[olivermoss]

That's awesome that you get to watch easily for once. I don't have a good sense of what teams are expected to do well, just hoping that our squids have good showings on their teams and that's been happening so far.

Also, one of our prospects did very well in the AHL All Star thing that just happened, which is a bit silly as a lot of talent was pulled to the Olympics, but it's still fun.