I don’t know what to say about this, except…thank God for our women’s team.
Today many Canadians are walking around with blank looks on their faces, disbelief in their eyes.
No gold, no silver, not even bronze…in men’s hockey…our sport.
Book the conference rooms in Toronto! Schedule the Hockey Summit! Call Don, Wayne, Pat, Brenden and Trevor. Something is wrong with our beloved game!
These games have been a failure! Can we turn things around before Vancouver 2010? Can we avoid embarrassment of losing at our game in our own home?
Wait a minute…we won how many medals yesterday? We’ve won how many so far? Isn’t that some kind of record for this country? Shouldn’t we be proud of our AMATEUR athletes? You know, the ones who don’t do it for the money—the ones who put their lives on hold, sacrifice their futures, families and bodies for the chance to represent their country and to watch the flag being raised with hand over chest while proudly singing our anthem?
Hey Gord, come off from that ledge. Pete, open the garage door and turn off the ignition. I know it hurts right now, but the pain will fade. The wounds will heal. We will live to play another period and our boys will see gold again. It’s a good thing that they can beat us. If we won every year, there wouldn’t be the euphoric feeling…just empty satisfaction.
A little perspective please…
And to all the honchos at Hockey Canada…heed this warning…
The time to award past glory has past. We got schooled. Our guys looked old, slow and confused. Some of them should not have been there. It is one thing to lose in the first elimination round. Shit happens, especially in one game put-outs. It’s totally another though, when we get shutout in 3 out of the 6 games that we play. That’s embarrassing and unacceptable for this country.
For this I must do something that I didn’t want to do. It will hurt me more than it hurts you, but you have it coming…
To the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey Team—for displaying a sense of entitlement and arrogance; complacency and complete indifference unbecoming of an Olympic athlete; for taking up the space of other Olympic hopefuls who aren’t millionaires and who do consider it an honour to represent this country at an international competition, thereby leaving everything they have on the field, slope, half-pipe or track—SHAME ON YOU!
Update:
I just learned that of the entire Canadian Men’s Hockey Team, only 8 players were at the Canadian Women’s gold medal game to show their support. This just goes to further my opinion that the men were a bunch of self-centered rich fat-cats who didn’t care about the rest of the Olympic Team and just went for the free trip to Italy.
Perhaps if more of them went to the game, they would have seen what it took to be champions and it may have rubbed off on them in their own competition.
What are you thinking?