Official 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Thread

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Jamal said:
He definitely gets more love here than the rest of Canada, but some of these French dudes on RDS' antichambre still diss him for the stupidest of reasons and like to reach when he isn't on his game. Denis Gauthier and PJ Stock really went in on him when he held out for a new contract last year.

I don't think Babcock and the coaching staff are racist, they're job is to win and they'll give out ice time as they see fit. Weber, Keith, and Doughty getting more ice than PK is to be expected based on what they did last Olympics. The racism is mostly from narrow minded fans who's biggest fear is to see a flamboyant, assertive black player thrive in a mostly white sport. I was in the Austria-Canada pre game thread on hfboards checking out the starting lines and some Canadian "fans" over there were practically hoping for PK to make costly errors so they could feel vindicated about all their over the top criticism of PK's game. He had that one play where he almost gave up a scoring chance but recovered and blocked the shot, folks were all up in arms about how he almost gave a scoring chance in a 6-0 game but pretended not to notice the recovery and blocked shot. It's stuff like that that really annoys me, the way he's judged at a higher standard than other players and the way any mistake he makes is magnified.
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fair assessment.
 
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