Congratulations to Canada for winning the gold medal in men's hockey!

Marrioti has spoken, thus jinxing the US with another bad prediction...we're screwed.

http://olympics.fanhouse.com/2010/02/26/believe-it-dream-team-will-win-hockey-gold/

Paging Al Michaels: U.S. Will Beat Canada

VANCOUVER -- So here they are again, Olympic darlings once more, the unexpected lifeblood of a land that never has given a puck about the game. Only this time, unlike 30 years ago, there is no Communism, no cold war, no grinders like Mike Eruzione or overachievers like Jim Craig. What we have now is Team USA at its talented and most vibrant hockey apex, no longer carving out a miracle but instead blasting through a traditional iron curtain of indifference -- shame on you, NBC -- to drag America's attention away from sports that have relegated the NHL to fourth- and fifth-wheel status.

As the lads threaten to leave another historical imprint, it's only fitting they try Sunday against the neighbor to the north that invented hockey and always has resented our lackadaisical treatment of the sport. "HOCKEY IS CANADA'S GAME!" read a sign not far from the U.S. bench Friday, as if trying to reinforce the thought as the Americans were stampeding a comically futile team from Finland that never showed up for the semifinal. Not only has Team USA advanced to the gold-medal game, it shouted its emergence with a 6-1 romp that will turn the championship scene at Canada Hockey Place into one of the wildest and most emotional tempests in the history of the sport -- and the Winter Games -- after the Canadians' 3-2 win Friday night over Slovakia.

Ready for the most awaited hockey game in an American generation? Maybe the better question is whether Canada can handle the devastation if it loses to Team USA ... again ... for the second time in a week on Canadian ice. My gosh, Dudley Do-Right just might defect. And recalling the rioting in the Vancouver streets back in 1994, after the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in a Game 7, well, I'll be avoiding that mess on Granville Street, thank you.

Hopefully it is a good game. :toast: