GB aims for Olympic Medal in Ice Hockey

sinikettu · Post by **sinikettu** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:22 am

Nearly posted this in the pub but it is serious..
Team GB is going to the Polish town of Sanok, where they face Japan, Romania and hosts Poland in pre-qualification.
Perhaps they have dreams of stuffing Finland and Sweden in the 2010 winter olympics.
Unlike the summer olympics ,GB golds at the winter games have been only 9 in history (most of them from Ice Skaters such as Robin Cousins, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_s ... 708486.stm

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john_smullen · Post by **john_smullen** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:48 pm

Britan won Gold for ice hockey at the 1936 games held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Turbomac · Post by **Turbomac** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:55 pm

C'mon Team GB...

Travmies · Post by **Travmies** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:30 pm

john_smullen wrote:Britan won Gold for ice hockey at the 1936 games held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

That wasn't ice hockey that was football on a frosty day in the park

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:39 pm

Travmies wrote:
john_smullen wrote:Britan won Gold for ice hockey at the 1936 games held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
That wasn't ice hockey that was football on a frosty day in the park

and... allegedly.. they were about as British as Greg Rusedski (just after being busted for mömmö). Whilst only ONE of them wasn't "born in the UK", it seems most were either ex-pats in Canada or the sons of ex-pats in Canada, had dual passports, and had more or less grown up on hockey. One assumes they'd need a similar arrangement now in order to be able to pull off anything like the feats of 72 years ago. Except now it would do no harm to have a few Slovaks, the odd Russian, a Czech and a Finn or two as well, and a couple of Swedes on the roster to poke the puck home in the dying seconds.

Can this be arranged?

john_smullen · Post by **john_smullen** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:33 pm

I did know that they were all canadians but dont let the truth get in the way of a good stroy

john_smullen · Post by **john_smullen** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:22 pm

GB's qualifying game against Japan is being shown on line by Polish tv.
http://www.itvp.pl/player/maxsize.html? ... o_id=20416

cadnoess · Post by **cadnoess** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:27 pm

Sigh- that's exactly what we don't want! There's a huge conflict over whether we should be developing our young British players as an investment in the future of our game, or just calling up the ex pats.
The women, mind you, just missed out in the Olympic qualifiers. They are a strong team based on homegrown talent.

otyikondo wrote:
Travmies wrote:
john_smullen wrote:Britan won Gold for ice hockey at the 1936 games held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
That wasn't ice hockey that was football on a frosty day in the park
and... allegedly.. they were about as British as Greg Rusedski (just after being busted for mömmö). Whilst only ONE of them wasn't "born in the UK", it seems most were either ex-pats in Canada or the sons of ex-pats in Canada, had dual passports, and had more or less grown up on hockey. One assumes they'd need a similar arrangement now in order to be able to pull off anything like the feats of 72 years ago. Except now it would do no harm to have a few Slovaks, the odd Russian, a Czech and a Finn or two as well, and a couple of Swedes on the roster to poke the puck home in the dying seconds.

Can this be arranged?

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