Hockey is Canada's Game?

USA 5. Canada 3.

What do we as Canadians have left to pride ourselves on?

I thought it was our ability to succeed at the winter olympics. I thought it was our dominance in speed skating, I thought it was our dominance in Luge and bobsled. Most importantly, I thought it was Hockey. For a long time Hockey has defined us as a nation, to put it all into perspective, Baseball to America is what Hockey is to Canada. 50% of all players in the NHL are Canadian, the top 50 goal scorers in the game have mostly been Canadian, even the GREAT ONE is Canadian. But where do we go from a very close game with Switzerland, and an even more embarrassing loss to Uncle Sam? All this on top of a horrible finish in 2006, and a World Juniors loss to the USA!

With only 9 medals, and the end of the games soon approaching, our usual top five finish in the medal standings looks very hard to achieve. Lets hope we manage a good finish, and lets pray team Canada goes on to the Gold Medal Game. For all we know, if there is no top five finish in medal standings, or a top two finish in Hockey, there will be severe backlash. Im talking conferences, government participation and the whole shabang.