2016 Skate Canada Men's LP

[Raomina]

Yassss!!!!!

Before people go crazy, let's remember Chan had an 11-point lead and his program even with the doubles was just so superior. And Hanyu got two downgrades, tripled a quad, and doubled a quad over the course of the competition.

Chan also only got 91 PCS which is pretty reasonable.

Still landed the same number of quads though... just saying.

 

[Li'Kitsu]

I fear it will get worse as the competitions and years go by if this is the path men's skating continues :disagree:

Eehhhh.... Javier Fernandez won worlds last year with the best worlds winning LP ever. Yuzuru Hanyu broke all the world records and delivered some of the best performances of the history of the sport at NHK and GPF. Heck, the whole GPF mens event was ridiculously awesome! And even just last week, Skate America was really good. This post couldn't be more wrong.

 

[4everchan]

people always forget the SP...

Yassss!!!!!

Before people go crazy, let's remember Chan had an 11-point lead and his program even with the doubles was just so superior. And Hanyu got two downgrades, tripled a quad, and doubled a quad over the course of the competition.

Chan also only got 91 PCS which is pretty reasonable.

 

[sallycinnamon]

Mura is not on his top form so Yuzu gets the silver today.

 

[ancientpeas]

Mura needs something between the jumps if he wants to go to Worlds.

 

[Tolstoj]

Rach is a Tarasova's exclusive.

 

[LongTimeLurker]

This skate is not going well....

 

[begin]

Hanyu fans gotta calm down. Yuzu really blew it in the SP and they kinda propped him up there. I think Chan deserved this one.

 

[eta]

91 isn't overscoring. He skated an amazing program. Even if you don't like the music or interpretation, the actual figure skating itself was sublime.

Maybe I'll find a good quality video later. But I have nothing against his music.

 

[xibsuarz]

I expected that, Yuzuru deserved to be ahead in the FS, but Chan had the SP cushion.

 

[wusswuss]

Rachmaninov piano concerto 2 is the king of all figure skating clap alongs

 

[ruffledgrouse]

Yuzu: any splat you can do I can splat better!

Patrick: I can pop any jump better than you!

...I hate that song.

...and Mura outdoes them both

 

[Biellmann]

Mura off the podium i guess

 

[100yen]

*Replaying Mao's routine in my head*

There should be at least a one Olympic cycle embargo on music from iconic programs.

 

[invisiblespiral]

Mura bored me.

(And so this is last year's SC, without as many clean guys.)

 

[DiamondDust]

Mura... nice speed and chsq but urgh, those jumps... tsk3 In any case he'll stilll podium so I'm happy.

 

[treeloving]

I think it's the time of the year for the collective amnesia where everyone forgets that Hanyu always bombs his beginning of the season, it's the most amusing time, If I may say.

I see that Samohin is owning. I can't with his costume though, I thought of POTO as well.

Apparently it was a fall? LMAO I wasn't looking and thought it was a positive reaction from the crowd.

The sad thing is he always bomb here , peak in december then bomb again in Feb/March. If he doesn't bomb here then I hope it means he could break this pattern but since he semi bomb......

 

[mrrice]

Hanyu fans gotta calm down. Yuzu really blew it in the SP and they kinda propped him up there. I think Chan deserved this one.

Holy Cow......Did Patrick Win.......

 

[Eislauf]

Chan has very impressive technical skills but imho still lacks charisma, showmanship, personality, pizazz, interpretation. Boring and bland. There's no "X Factor" like there is with YUZU.

 

[msteach3]

Can't get into Mura's program at all. He always looks sloppy to me.