Winter Olympics 2026

[Phil C. McNasty]

Same concept.

The US ladies are now far superior to Canada. If I'm not mistaken, they've beaten Canada 6 straight games, and I see this trend continuing. Today was close but Canada was humiliated in the prelims

Or teams just go through cycles, and right now the US is an upcycle, but that doesn't mean in 5 to 10 years Canada can't be superior again.

Put it this way, I will put it a lot more faith in Canada winning the next gold medal, then I would in the Maple Leafs winning the Stanley Cup within the next 50 years

 

[superstar_88]

Same concept.

The US ladies are now far superior to Canada. If I'm not mistaken, they've beaten Canada 6 straight games, and I see this trend continuing. Today was close but Canada was humiliated in the prelims.

It's prelims. that's practice and Poulin, their captain and best player, didn't play that game. Prelims is for seedings and that's it.
They don't hand out the metals after the prelims. They lost to US in the prelims and still met them in the Finals.

Italy on the mens side was still playing after the prelims and they lost every prelim game.

 

[DtheB]

Or teams just go through cycles, and right now the US is an upcycle, but that doesn't mean in 5 to 10 years Canada can't be superior again.

Put it this way, I will put it a lot more faith in Canada winning the next gold medal, then I would in the Maple Leafs winning the Stanley Cup within the next 50 years

I for sure would take that bet but how do we know that we'll still be around in 50 years? How do I know that I'll be able to collect?

 

[DtheB]

It's prelims. that's practice and Poulin, their captain and best player, didn't play that game. Prelims is for seedings and that's it.
They don't hand out the metals after the prelims. They lost to US in the prelims and still met them in the Finals.

Italy on the mens side was still playing after the prelims and they lost every prelim game.

Canada lost 4 in a row in a rivalry series. And including today that's 5 of the last 6.

 

[superstar_88]

Canada lost 4 in a row in a rivalry series. And including today that's 5 of the last 6.

Sure, but the last game they played for all the marbles went to overtime. Shots were in effect even.
So from this I wouldn't assess them as "now far superior". Better yes but far superior? If the US dominated this game I would concur but they didn't. Which game in the "now" is the better indicator? A prelim game where Poulin didn't play or the Finals for all the marbles where Poulin did play.