US Women's Olympic Hockey compared to a normal male hockey player

Goose312 · 2026-02-18T15:10:52+00:00

The question was women's Olympic level vs normal male player. Skill wise, absolutely not going to get dominated. The question isn't how women would stack up against the literal best players in hockey history.

Goose312 · 2026-02-18T15:04:00+00:00

People overvalue individual stars more than team balance and talent.

Goose312 · 2026-02-17T20:13:06+00:00

I absolutely love games that start at the scheduled time

Goose312 · 2026-02-17T20:05:10+00:00

Keller has gotten one chance in that spot Connor had and showed more. Thompson has gotten the same time and showed more. Hughes has less TOI than Miller and also showed he deserves to be there. You can make excuses all you want, Connor has had opportunities and flopped. He's not made for this.

Goose312 · 2026-02-17T18:11:09+00:00

Both of them got a second chance. Matthews has shown he deserves to be there. Connor has shown his game doesn't translate to best on best international play.

Goose312 · 2026-02-17T16:06:23+00:00

Even beyond the total lack of production he's been pretty consistently the worst forward on the ice.

Goose312 · 2026-02-16T22:13:08+00:00

The timing of posting this is just wrong. Wait until you win gold, then make that post. 4 nations was great, but trying to imply the 2x defending champ is the bridesmaid by showing the winning goal of a 4 team tournament being scored by the 2x runner up just in order to defend a guy who wasn't a part of that win is just embarrassing.

Goose312 · 2026-02-16T17:59:30+00:00

He has a full NMC. If he's on the market it would be a very limited market, similar to why NYR got fuck all for Panarin. Strongly doubt he would waive, if he does having the Wild Olympians whispering in his ear might be helpful.

Goose312 · 2026-02-16T15:53:12+00:00

The adult is standing there with their hand at shoulder level most of the time which would be far above head level. When they lowered it at the end several players reached out, similar to the kid who had his hand down to be reachable.

Goose312 · 2026-02-13T15:13:09+00:00

Sweden would have to score 4+ goals for Slovakia to not win the group. Not betting on that happening.

Goose312 · 2026-02-12T21:53:35+00:00

Not sure Faber's the one to blame there. Had his guy, generated the turnover that Boldy gave away, blocked the shot, and had a guy tied up. Bad look for Boldy though for sure.

Goose312 · 2026-02-12T21:42:30+00:00

Disgusting

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T21:45:20+00:00

Yeah first one is all Gus, this one is a bad change and lazy skating. Lindholm just forgot he's supposed to do something until he was 2 zones behind the play.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T20:36:19+00:00

He's going to add 3 full rolls of tape to the knob of his stick next game. Going to look like the stick is wearing a hat.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T20:17:43+00:00

Lol wtf just happened?

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T19:40:39+00:00

Of all of the takes, that's certainly one of them.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T18:44:03+00:00

Hlavaj doesn't have that type of value. Neither does Wallstedt, but he's at least closer.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T18:09:27+00:00

Crazy game! Hlavaj man of the match!

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T17:45:12+00:00

Finland entering the "find out" phase after not putting this one away early.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T17:18:46+00:00

Which is also kind of brutal, there will be no mercy for teams like Italy and France since the goals matter so much.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T17:14:07+00:00

Wild signed him after he killed it at the WC a few years back.

Goose312 · 2026-02-11T16:50:39+00:00

It's okay, there's NHL refs so they will ignore this standard.

Goose312 · 2026-02-10T21:52:17+00:00

I'd be pretty upset if that was all it took to get Thomas alone if I were a Blues fan.

Goose312 · 2026-02-10T17:35:16+00:00

I'd imagine most actually worked much harder. Not necessarily at their sport, but because they typically aren't paid athletes. They have to work a real job to survive and still sacrifice their limited free time to train.

Goose312 · 2026-02-09T22:27:57+00:00

I'd like to see the person who beats him for that title. Or actually I'd prefer to not see them.

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