What a game. Canada controlled the game but we found a way to win. Hellenbuyck was an animal.
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That save was about as close as the bullet was to Trumpās head. It will be one of the most famous hockey photos of all time, right up there with Bobby Orr flying through the air long before Canada fell to gay race communism.
It was such a great game to watch. Olympic hockey is one of the best showcases of top athletic talent you can ever see. NHL all-star games just donāt compare.
@SepCalla Congratulations to Finland on the great showing and bronze medal. My kid and I were talking about how great the Finnish team was considering you guys only have 5.5 million people compared to Canadaās 40 million and the USAās 350 million.
Hockey in the USA is a weird sport compared to the other major sports because it basically sprung up in places with lots of Scandinavians, Canadian border states, and other pockets of talent development, but most of the country doesnāt have the same kind of sports development culture needed for hockey talent to break through at the NHL level. Weāre obviously making big improvements, but it is still a sport that basically needs a lifetime of practice against good competition to even sniff the NHL level. You canāt just athletic freak your way onto a pro roster like you can in the NBA or NFL.
If youāre a top player in a place like Maine you will need to spend a lot of time in Massachusetts and Canada to get the kind of competition needed to make a Major Junior team or a D1 team, which is why Maine hasnāt traditionally fielded Tier 1 youth hockey teams. With only 1.3 million people scattered across a huge area, you just donāt have the talent concentration even if you have a long tradition of hockey culture.
When my kid was playing bantam hockey they went undefeated in Maine, just steamrolling everyone. We took a trip to Lac Megantic, Quebec and a mediocre team from a small town just mopped the floor with us. We did get a couple of wins when they visited Lewiston but it was a real wake-up call for the boys about being a big fish in a small pond.
I also think hockey produces the best overall athletes of any major sport. They are all strong as fuck, fast, incredibly well-conditioned, explosive, and extremely skilled. You canāt get by on skill alone and you canāt get by on being an athletic freak alone.
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As a kid where I grew up, hockey was a rich kid sport. Thats not to say we didnāt have pickup games on the pond or street hockey in the summer. But actual organized hockey and all the equipment and travel involved, was really only for the upper class kids.
One cool thing with all us Yankees fleeing the north is hockey has grown in popularity in the south. Our local echl team has full crowds and local rinks have been adding clubs.
It was a great match. USA and Canada have insanely strong teams. Gongrats on the win!
Hockey is the no. 1 sport here. Thatās why we often end up relatively high in world championship (and fare decently in olympics). But we are no match for USA or Canada. Not big enough population base to pull athletes from or enough resources to allocate to the sport.
I agree that hockey is a excellent sport for athletic development. I know some succesfull powerlifters who are ex-hockey players, and it shows.
My kids donāt play hockey, but I know people whoās kids play, and itās not cheap.
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@alrightmiami19c I spent a LOT of money on youth hockey and I canāt even ice skate. Itās expensive all right, especially with the travel costs.
About 15 years ago I was consulting for a corporation in the Franklin, TN area and they were trying to convince me to come on full-time as a salaried employee. We gave it a lot of thought and I was really impressed that they had a good hockey facility and youth program facilitated by the Nashville Predators. It is spreading and there are a lot of scholarships and other ways for disadvantaged kids to get into the sport. Itās still going to be more expensive than a basketball, a jock strap, and a pair of athletic shoes.
My stepson began playing when he was about 6 and by the time he was a 14 year-old high school sophomore on our local JV squad, he was pretty damn strong. He was about 5ā10ā and maybe 185 pounds and the first time he even tried squatting with a barbell he could do 225 for 10 ATG with no problem. Hockey and rollerblading in the off-season were his only sports or form of consistent physical activity.
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You pretty much summed up Finlandās situation. Strong culture, specially in certain areas, but not enough people to have enough super talented and dedicated players (who often escape to NHL for the big money anyway).
He is also a huge Tukka Rask fan who had a lot of incredible performances for the Boston Bruins.
Heās really a lucky kid from a sports fan perspective. Growing up in Maine heās seen his Boston teams win The Stanley Cup, the NBA championship, lots of NFL championships, Major League Baseball championships, and now the Olympic Gold in his favorite sport.
Iāve never seen him this pumped up for a sports win since he was 10 years old and the Bruins won the Stanley Cup with Rask as Tim Thomasās backup goalie.
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So how about that Pete Hegseth 315 bench press?
. Not bad. I mean, dude is 45, 6ā tall, and doesnāt actually need to be strong for any specific purpose.
Not the greatest, cleanest rep, but significant demonstration of strength.
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Or this one?
People seem to be having a hard time with him doing this?
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Honestly, 315 is not that bad for an average guy, even if itās ugly.
Luckily physical strength is not very important trait for politicians.
315 at 46 is pretty stout for a guy Hegsethās size.
In local news, a former DMV employee explains one element of how the sausage gets made here in Maine. In addition to allowing anyone to vote with no documentation, weāve also been systematically handing out driverās licenses by rendering the test entirely meaningless with a handful of corrupt translators.
Of course there will be āno evidence of fraudā when you design an entire system to never detect voter fraud.
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When you zoom in and see 10 kg stamped on the plate, it makes people wonder about his math skills.
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You think heād fake a three plate bench in front of a bunch of his soldiers who would know it was fake?
The first video @SkyzykS posted sounded like 315 re-racking to me. I couldnāt hear it on the second but itās not like 315 is some unattainable lift.
For a good example of world leaders lifting fake weights while claiming audacious numbers that even the strongest men on the planet would struggle to hit, I present Sheik Nasser:
Yes. It was a photo op.
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Why not? Everyone was lying in this video. Not a drop of sweat on anyone. Not a full rep anywhere.
Unless you think a 70 yr old is completing this in 5:48 and Petey in 5:25ā¦
Gullible
Oh! Bukake boy came to catch a few loads!
Youāre going to have to post some video for us fat old men you irrelevant piece of shit.
Something tells me you wonāt though.
Everybody else here has, except of course, You.
TDS is wild. Hegseth looks like a dude who can possibly put up three plates. Nothing on the video screams fake to me. You donāt need to break a sweat to work up to a heavy single, either. Iāve seen older, smaller guys bench more in person. Itās quite possible Hegseth is on TRT as well.
Looks legit to me.
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I donāt see much to doubt. Iām not much in the habit of defending other peoples lifts though.
I mean, if there was something I could legitimately see, Iād agree its pathetic. As it stands though, .
Agree.
It has this LGN twink in here, our old fat guy circle jerk, acting like a cum sponge, criticizing people he doesnt know for things he canāt do, and VERY LIKELY hiding behind a second screen name so that he can do these things āwithout embarrassing himselfā. Oh, the irony of life! 
He probably heard that āCome on Eileenā tune as a teenager and got really jealous of Eileen.
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If I ever had to sweat doing a heavy single, the gym is too hot.
Let me add to that. I liked the gym cool enough that it minimized the amount of sweat (electrolytes) that I lost while lifting weights.
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I honestly donāt care how strong Hegseth or how fit Kennedy is. Thatās not where they should be judged.
If the videos are fake (not really interested are they or not), it turns to be something pathetic. Not something that would surprise me though, when talking about politicians after all.