WWWWWWOOOOOOO!!! That was fun! Canada thoroughly dominated the Americans yesterday afternoon and brought home the gold for the first time in 50 years. The bars were rocking and the party out on Yonge Street was great. The only two nervous moments were the early two odd man rushes by the Americans, one resulting in a goal.

Too bad we have to go back to the regular season NHL now and have to wait two months until the playoffs start. Hopefully Sundin and Joseph will pick themselves up after their own personal disappointments in the tourney so the Leafs can make a serious run in the spring. (Aside from the fluky loss, Sundin played great. I've always wanted him to have a talented winger on his side with the Leafs. Maybe these Olympics will give Pat Quinn some food for thought during the offseason to replace Hoglund.)

Despite enjoying the mens game more, higher marks go to the women for enduring that awful referee. An AHL referee would have been better than her. The Russians had nothing to gripe about the mens reffing with the NHL officials unlike the womens gold medal game. As we saw the NHL refs called things fair and square otherwise I'm sure their employer would take a dim view of their performance come the end of the NHL season.

That was my point though. The ref was a homer. It's not so much that the penalties were lopsided. If you play a sloppy game and cause penalties then so be it. I thought I was watching a basketball game though. Some calls were like "Huh? That's a penalty?!" (That's one of the reasons why I can't watch basketball. I get frustrated very quickly on all the penalty calling for contact that is nothing.) Despite the homer ref, our women pulled through.

Most definitely. The best players in the world playing with passion, determination and actually having a physical pressence in the game. The All-Star game is pure fluff.