Women's Hockey

[Stickytape]

Ah, that might also explain how Knight went down so quickly.  Watching the side-angle shot again, it's easier to see the skate-to-skate.  It trips Knight up, too.

 

[hockeyfan1]

What a way to celebrate my 50th birthday today watching Team Canada's overtime gold-medal victory over Team USA 3-2!!!

Team Canada has now won four gold medals in four consecutive gold medals in Olympic Winter Games in Women' s lce Hockey, a record for that sport itself.  (The US Women Olympic Basketball holds the Olympic record of five
consecutive golds).

After trailing 2-0, the Canadians mounted a comeback leading
to Poulin's overtime winner.

Incredible, fantastic, wonderful, but most of all, simply happy!

Girl power!  Written in...

              .... G-O-L-D!!!!!!!!

http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/canada-stuns-usa-in-overtime-to-capture-fourth-straight-gold/

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

No one is diving on an OT breakaway for a gold medal.  No one.

 

[MetalRaven]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

No one is diving on an OT breakaway for a gold medal.  No one.

Look at the left skate...she dragged too long and lost the edge.

Which was probably caused by the other skate hitting Knight

last edit I promise...I lied

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

No one is diving on an OT breakaway for a gold medal.  No one.

Look at the left skate...she dragged too long and lost the edge.

Which was probably caused by the other skate hitting Knight

last edit I promise...I lied

She's fine until her right skate is clipped by Knight's skate.  Don't see the dragging/losing an edge at all.

 

[Kin]

It's fairly minimal contact but on a breakaway I really think that just about any contact from a defender should be called, especially in a situation like that where there's no real play on the puck.

 

[hockeyfan1]

An extra note....

With four straight gold medals in women?s hockey Wickenheiser, Jayna Hefford and Caroline Ouellette joined Soviet biathlete Alexander Tikhonov and German speedskater Claudia Pechstein as gold medallists in four consecutive Winter Games.


Source:  Sportsnet

 

[TML fan]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

No one is diving on an OT breakaway for a gold medal.  No one.

Look at the left skate...she dragged too long and lost the edge.

Which was probably caused by the other skate hitting Knight

last edit I promise...I lied

She's fine until her right skate is clipped by Knight's skate.  Don't see the dragging/losing an edge at all.

Yup. She only drags her leg after her foot is clipped.

 

[MetalRaven]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

No one is diving on an OT breakaway for a gold medal.  No one.

Look at the left skate...she dragged too long and lost the edge.

Which was probably caused by the other skate hitting Knight

last edit I promise...I lied

She's fine until her right skate is clipped by Knight's skate.  Don't see the dragging/losing an edge at all.

I was just backing you up...theres no way she "dove". She got clipped by Knight, which throws her off stride and she loses her edge (I incorrectly used the term "dragged too long" the "too long" was incorrect because it wasn't her fault nor do I think she could have corrected it on re watching the gif it seems more of a weight fix that causes her left skate to go nearly parallel with the ice)

 

[Andy007]

Yea I think it's fairly obvious that the American player's skate nipped Wickenheiser's and that's why they both fell.

The American player was adament after the game in her claims that she didn't even touch her but why would she have fallen first (or at all) if she didn't even touch Wickenheiser?

 

[Andy007]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

So the only American player falls, leaving Wickenheiser alone on a breakaway in OT at the Gold medal game, and Wickenheiser's plan is to dive and pretend to be tripped... so she can possibly be awarded the same penalty shot. Yep, sounds like a sound plan...

 

[OldTimeHockey]

I don't know if she intended to fall but she looked completely gassed on the play. There's no way she could of known that the American player fell

 

[Zee]

I changed my mind. Hayley dove.

So the only American player falls, leaving Wickenheiser alone on a breakaway in OT at the Gold medal game, and Wickenheiser's plan is to dive and pretend to be tripped... so she can possibly be awarded the same penalty shot. Yep, sounds like a sound plan...

The American player's skate clipped Wickenheiser.  There's no way she dives there with a chance to win the gold.  You get clipped while in stride you're going down.

Here's a super slo-mo where you actually see the American's leg hit Wickenheiser:

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Had a nice little argument with Buccigross and Button on twitter because, according to Buccigross: "there was zero contact . Feet did not get  tangled. Literally no contact."

LITERALLY

 

[AvroArrow]

Had a nice little argument with Buccigross and Button on twitter because, according to Buccigross: "there was zero contact . Feet did not get  tangled. Literally no contact."

LITERALLY

Did you send them Zee's gif?  I'd love to see them try to refute that.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Had a nice little argument with Buccigross and Button on twitter because, according to Buccigross: "there was zero contact . Feet did not get  tangled. Literally no contact."

LITERALLY

It warranted being called a penalty.  Plenty of contact initiated by the US' Knight.  No penalty shot, but a penalty nevertheless.  We got the OT power play, we scored, won it all.  End of story.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Marie-Philippe Poulin has come of age, but don't discount Wickenheiser or Hefford just yet...

http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/thn-in-sochi-from-wickenheiser-to-poulin-the-torch-is-passed/

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

From Shannon Szabados' Twitter feed:

 

[OldTimeHockey]

That's great!

 

[hockeyfan1]

Love you, goalpost!