I did - I wasnt going to bother to get up and watch the game - but very glad I did!

Finally a REAL hockey game - some competition for our girls!

Canada 2 - Sweden - 0 after first period!

What do you expect. They are SWEDES!!!

The swedes are playing well - they had a couple of really good chances, and the score could easily be 2-2 at this point. its great to be able to watch a competitive game of hockey!

Canada beating Sweden 7 -1 after 2nd period!

Go Canada Go!

Well damn, there goes the shutout streak.

We won!!! We won!!!

Canada beats the Swedes 8 - 1!

This is getting a little embarrassing!

GO CANADA GO!

It is. Fancy letting a goal in. Really!

The best is yet to come. Mens hockey starting tomorrow.

I hear that due to the obvious one sidedness of the womens hockey the IOC are considering canning it from future games

Maybe the Canadians should consider conceeding a few late goals in future just so the others will still play them in future.

Dont know how true it is, but it sounds like the sort of gutless decision the IOC would come up with in the name of better TV ratings, which is after all the sole reason for their existence anymore.

De Coubertin would be spining is his grave at the prospect of excluding a sport 'cos one side is obviously better than the rest, whatever happened to playing the game for the sake of the game, and sport being about how you play the game rather than the results?

Yep your right....I think they need to give the european teams a few years to become more experienced and stronger. Today playing sweden was the first type of competition we've had and the score could have been alot close than it was - the swedes played pretty well for a newer team with some good chances to score goals.

In some ways, the womens hockey is more exciting than the mens. I hope there will be an incredible uproar if the IOC does this. Certainly canada should complain.

Why arent there women players in the NHL?

That might not be a gutless decision, if the reason Canada's winning so easily is that no one else is interested in ice hockey then it doesn't make a lot of sense to have it on the schedule. Perhaps it's like American football or baseball, a very specialized interest. Is there ice hockey in China?

In what ways? For the same reason there are no women players in the NFL, EPL, NBA etc, the best female players at these power sports are not big enough, strong enough, fast enough etc to compete with the best male players. Evolution saw to that I'm afraid

I think there was a female goaly in the OHL once? Or maybe that was something my wife made up when we have our biannual argument about such things.

Apparently that isnt the case though. There is alot of interest in women hockey in europe. The problem is that the teams in europe are young and inexperienced and have difficulty playing against a strong and experienced teams like Canada and the States.

Give them a few years and they will probably beat the pants off Canada and the States! Sweden played well today!

Yes, saw something on the CBC, but fortunatley for Canada its an eliteist thing, so not many players (yet)

Ok let me rephrase my q uestion then (and Im just asking because I dont know). Why arent there women teams in the NHL just like there are mens?