Canadian Skip
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No kidding, that was the worst skipping I have ever seen. She totally blew it. I could not believe what I was seeing. She had the game won in regular time and missed a couple of shots, but the overtime she blew it. The Swedes had her guarded, and she kept taking out the guard. All she had to was piug the front, and she kept taking out the guards. Stupidest play I have ever seen. I could see she was going to lose. The Swedes must be laughing.
Whether or not she used the wrong strategy in the extra end is debatable. The fact remains, though, she was left with an easy final shot for someone of her calibre in the 10 and extra ends and choked on both.
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OnTheWayOut
There is no debate on her strategy IMO in the extra end. She used wrong judgement and it's understandable under the tremendous pressure, her thinking was clouded. She should have cleared those two rocks in the centre of the rings, the one Swede and one Canadian much earlier, during the second or third player's stones, instead she kept clearing the guards and waited until the end to clear the two centre stones, very, very poor move. I had a feeling she would miss as that is not an easy shot when you leave your last shot to win the Gold medal, under a simple game condition she would make that shot 9 out of 10 times, but under the pressure the odds change dramatically.
Too bad, she's still hot to me, I'd do her, lol.
She was in a position to win only because of the horrendous shot earlier by Sweden. They gifted her a 5-3 lead, and she choked so bad, she could never be my SP.
The strategy during the end is inconsequential. She was left with an easy double takeout. Basically a wide open shot. And she missed it.
I think the two rocks in the house were frozen together, which means very difficult if not impossible to clear with one shot. She would have had to ignore a guard, hit out her own stone first (which was shot, and at the rear of the two frozen stones), then had to get by whatever new guard they put up to clear the remaining Swedish shot stone.
I think they were okay on their strategy. They left their shot rock there, knowing that the Swedes would eventually have to use a rock to tap the front of the two frozen stones.
Their issue was that they didn't clear the guards completely, narrowing down their own options in the end. If the guards were more completely out of the way, she would have had a much easier single hit and stick, I think, rather than a double and stick.
Of course some of us can. <smile>Plus I doubt any of you could sweep a rock the whole way into the house with falling on your keesters
I know it wasn't going to be easy to take out those two rocks stuck together with one shot, but if she would have tried the take out early enough, ie. either her second or third player, they would have had numerous other opportunities to try to clear all rocks thrown by Sweden into the rings.
I still don't know why she just didn't keep clearing rocks out, one by one after each Swedish rock until the end.
If Canada chose to ignore a guard, and do the take out on the two frozen stones instead, Sweden will end up with shot rock likely (from the frozen pair) after Canada's take-out. (The take-out itself might also be very difficult, depending where the guard was.) The house would likely end up with two stones in it - the shot Swedish stone from the frozen pair, and the Canadian stone used to make the hit.
Sweden would then put up another guard. Canada would be faced with Sweden having a shot rock in the house, and two guards up front. Canada had last rock, but their options to try to get a rock into shot position would be limited if the guards were Swedish. (ie no run-backs.)
If Canada chose instead to peel off the guards as soon as they could start doing that, they knew Sweden would have to stop doing guards eventually and tap that frozen pair. They would then be able to deal with the results without guards blocking the way.
OK that's a particularly unflattering picture!
But generally speaking, I agree she is pretty close to the definition of a "doable" 40+ year old (at least for those who wouldn't normally fantasize in that direction)
But generally speaking, I agree she is pretty close to the definition of a "doable" 40+ year old (at least for those who wouldn't normally fantasize in that direction)
She's hot no doubt but just a LITTLE too "made up" for my tastes. The overly tweezed eyebrows etc throw me off.
BTW: she's living commonlaw, she's not "married"......
BTW: she's living commonlaw, she's not "married"......
