Olympic Plans

Side Note - Before the main post I got to say something about the World Juniors:
With the way Canada played against the U.S., next year I should try-out for the team.

Since the Olympics are a couple weeks away, it is a good time to look at the game plans of the nations competing for the gold.

Belarus - Still missing Salo.

Canada - See Russia.

Czech Republic - Will eventually regret not putting Hasek's corpse on the roster.

Finland - Donald Duck's nephews will lead us to victory.

Germany - Willing to rely on the same roster year after year

Latvia - Now that we got the oldest goalie we might have success.

Norway - Will think of a game plan soon, still trying to figure out how we made it this far.

Russia - See Canada.

Slovakia - Halak should be a star goalie now that there's a real team in front of him.

Sweden - Playing with health issues isn't a big problem...right?

Switzerland - Pray that Turin wasn't a fluke.

USA - Play with truculence, since it has worked so well for the Leafs.

Time To Shift The Focus

After seeing the ONLY entertaining game of the World Juniors (seeing the Swiss get into the Quarterfinals is surprising...er...wrong game) it makes one think...

Why not switch focus for a bit.

Since all the real games are the at late stages of the tournament, why doesn't Hockey Canada promote the Spengler Cup team.

This years version of Team Canada wasn't that great (damn Mannheim had the other half of our team) but at least most of there games were close ones and not ones that were decided in the first period. Unless the Junior team plays the U.S., Sweden, or Russia (even then the Russian team has slowed down) then it is almost a guaranteed blow-out.

Maybe it is time to let the Spengler Cup into the spotlight.