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Ace_O_Spades · 02-22-2006, 10:21 PM

This combined with everything else stressful going on in my life was an absolute nuclear bomb on my psyche.

I've been cheering for team Canada through the past 15 years I've been watching hockey, watching every junior tournament, every canada/world cup, and of course every olympics and world championship game. The woman's team is a nice bonus too.

So when they won the olympics, then two world championships, two world junior championships, the world cup, and our B team even manages to come second, forgive me for being ultimately confident in the ability of the Canadian squad to dispatch any and all opponents when truly called upon. Our core of players is absolutley dominating on paper... sadly that's all they turned out to be at Torino.

I got up at 4:00 am to watch their game against Italy... true dedication hahaha. Then being completely and utterly disappointed during the preliminaries after their game against Germany.

Now, I really really wanted to believe they would beat Russia... that the do-or-die nature of the game would make Canada snap out of it and play to their potential.

I waited four years of thinking "The world championships are nice, but I can't wait for the olympics where our TRUE team can come and show what we're really capable of." Leaving nobody in the world doubting... It all seemed so certain.

But that's exactly how team Canada played... expecting to win. They got beat to the pucks. Flatfooted, they were danced around by the Finnish team. Contrary to Canada's every man for him self approach, the Fins worked like a finely oiled machine. They simply put Canada to shame.

The game against Russia was close... A few bounces here or there and it's an entirely different game. But big players score big goals in big games. Nobody stepped up on team Canada. Martin Brodeur gets the team Canada MVP for the tournament. You can only lean on spectacular goaltending for so long though. And I think this tournament sowed the seed of my hatred for Todd Bertuzzi. How many assinine penalties does a guy need to take before getting benched by the coach? Boooooo Bertuzzi.

Where was Joe Sakic? Iginla? HEATLEY!? Cmon.

I'm ashamed of their lacklustre performance, they are better than that.

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02-22-2006, 10:21 PM	#37 (permalink)
Ace_O_Spades The Death Card Location: EH!?!?	This combined with everything else stressful going on in my life was an absolute nuclear bomb on my psyche. I've been cheering for team Canada through the past 15 years I've been watching hockey, watching every junior tournament, every canada/world cup, and of course every olympics and world championship game. The woman's team is a nice bonus too. So when they won the olympics, then two world championships, two world junior championships, the world cup, and our B team even manages to come second, forgive me for being ultimately confident in the ability of the Canadian squad to dispatch any and all opponents when truly called upon. Our core of players is absolutley dominating on paper... sadly that's all they turned out to be at Torino. I got up at 4:00 am to watch their game against Italy... true dedication hahaha. Then being completely and utterly disappointed during the preliminaries after their game against Germany. Now, I really really wanted to believe they would beat Russia... that the do-or-die nature of the game would make Canada snap out of it and play to their potential. I waited four years of thinking "The world championships are nice, but I can't wait for the olympics where our TRUE team can come and show what we're really capable of." Leaving nobody in the world doubting... It all seemed so certain. But that's exactly how team Canada played... expecting to win. They got beat to the pucks. Flatfooted, they were danced around by the Finnish team. Contrary to Canada's every man for him self approach, the Fins worked like a finely oiled machine. They simply put Canada to shame. The game against Russia was close... A few bounces here or there and it's an entirely different game. But big players score big goals in big games. Nobody stepped up on team Canada. Martin Brodeur gets the team Canada MVP for the tournament. You can only lean on spectacular goaltending for so long though. And I think this tournament sowed the seed of my hatred for Todd Bertuzzi. How many assinine penalties does a guy need to take before getting benched by the coach? Boooooo Bertuzzi. Where was Joe Sakic? Iginla? HEATLEY!? Cmon. I'm ashamed of their lacklustre performance, they are better than that. < /rant> __________________ Feh. Last edited by Ace_O_Spades; 02-23-2006 at 06:31 AM..