No Back to Back for Canada!

Now working with the gals in the office for almost a year - learning quite quickly HUGE sport fans, especially hockey. They are bound and determined to convert me into a Calgary Flames fan. As I shared with them, the only live sports games I've seen was when I was a kid and both were in Montreal (Baseball Expos and Hockey Habs). Ohh - word to the wise don't mention Habs in the inpatient coding area at the Foothills site - super diehard Flames fans! Of course, this afternoon, Mens Team Canada Hockey were playing Russia. So we were going to CBC blog play by play of the hockey game. Not knowing anything about hockey - I am assuming it was a good game as the first and only goal of the game was scored in the third period. As the title mentioned - it was Russia who won 1-0!! (Hats off to your adopted country David and Erin! Good luck in the semis) Reading CBC's blog was funny with their descriptions and quirks of the game. The men will have much to prove come 2010 as it will be on home turf in Vancouver. Sarah at work is determined to go to the winter Olympics in 2010 as we are so close to Vancouver (relatively speaking). How cool would it be in 2010 to win the womens AND mens hockey again and on home turf to boot!! We have to wait 2 years before purchasing any tickets though (Sarah checked for us). It wasn't all bad for Canada today - we won some more gold & silver medals in speed-skating and skiing. Men's Curling won their semis to play in the gold medal game. Cindy Klassen, speed skater (I believe from Canmore, Alberta) has won the most medals (4) in at a winter Olympics for a woman. Congrats to Cindy!!! It is an interesting observations - the Canadian women atheletes are kicking butt this year - raking in a good portion of our current 17 medals at these Olympics. I think our aim is 25 medals for this Olympics - Klassen skates one more competition on Saturday. Go Canada Go!!!