GOLD
What a great day for the country. What a great moment of national pride. What a great time to be a Canadian and a already great feel good story for a early 2005.
Some may not know but last night the major junior Canadian hockey team defeated the Russians in the final 6-1 to claim their first GOLD medal in junior men's hockey since 1997. This makes up for last year's meltdown against the US when Canada was leading in last years Gold medal game but only to see the lead and victory slip away (the Marc Andre Felury rebound mean anything to anyone?). It was just so rewarding to watch what I feel is undoubtedly the greatest junior team that our country had ever assembled and sent to these World junior hockey championships.
I guess too it was nice to win the gold on US soil but it was equally as amazing to know (and hear!) that the support for the Canadian team was there since it was in Grand Forks North Dakota (which is 2hrs south of Winnipeg) this year. I suppose to in some ways they were all "home" games since the majority of the fans who did attend the games were Canadian (it was said some came from as far as the East Coast for a few and the next closest was Regina in Saskatchewan) and helped make the tournament a success.
No matter what they made us all proud and even for about two weeks people were able to rally around a team of young men who played hard and represented our country well.
Congratulations to our boys .. you made us proud!
Some may not know but last night the major junior Canadian hockey team defeated the Russians in the final 6-1 to claim their first GOLD medal in junior men's hockey since 1997. This makes up for last year's meltdown against the US when Canada was leading in last years Gold medal game but only to see the lead and victory slip away (the Marc Andre Felury rebound mean anything to anyone?). It was just so rewarding to watch what I feel is undoubtedly the greatest junior team that our country had ever assembled and sent to these World junior hockey championships.
I guess too it was nice to win the gold on US soil but it was equally as amazing to know (and hear!) that the support for the Canadian team was there since it was in Grand Forks North Dakota (which is 2hrs south of Winnipeg) this year. I suppose to in some ways they were all "home" games since the majority of the fans who did attend the games were Canadian (it was said some came from as far as the East Coast for a few and the next closest was Regina in Saskatchewan) and helped make the tournament a success.
No matter what they made us all proud and even for about two weeks people were able to rally around a team of young men who played hard and represented our country well.
Congratulations to our boys .. you made us proud!
posted by Spatchula at 11:06 PM
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