Olympic Notes

I meant to do a lot more post over the Olympics but now that the preliminary round is over, its the best time to say a couple things:

• Norway's Pal Grotnes and Tore Vikingstad should get NHL tryouts. They've had a good tournament so far.
• In hindsight, Ovechkin's hit on Jagr isn't as spectacular as it's hyped to be. Unless you take into account 2 things:
  1. Because International Rules are lame...er...stricter, any open-ice hit is considered awesome.
  2. It's the first time anyone seen Ovi make a clean hit.
• Speaking of awesome and Russia, it's nice to see Slovakia get the upset over them.
• How does Switzerland give the US and Canada a hard time but allows Norway to score 4 goals on them?
• Even through inserting/removing players from rosters are prohibited, what's the rule on coaches? Seriously though, what was Babcock thinking in either not pulling Brodeur or calling a timeout near the end of the game.
• The bigger question of the Canada-US game: How the hell does a team with the Leafs GM and coach win?
• Only Pool C had no surprises (maybe Sweden shutting out Finland but nothing major).
• 2 true facts about the standings:
  1. If the Sweden-Finland game went to overtime and Sweden won, Canada would have faced Finland after Germany, not Russia (thus confirming TSN needs a fact-checker).
  2. If the Canada-US game went into overtime, Canada would have had a top 4 finish, meaning they would get a first round bye.

On a semi-related Olympic note - A new slogan for these games (inspired by our failure in short track and ski cross) should be: You're either a medallist, or Canadian.