[Dude]

I'm not one of those guys that will trade every other medal just for Olympic Gold. Fact is, those other athletes have certainly had a tougher road with far more obstacles to overcome to achieve their success than our pampered hockey players have had. Yes, they've worked hard, but as a hockey player in Canada, you are exposed to arguably the single best system, and the richest system, in the world. It's a fcuking machine. My kid is 6 years old, and he has one practice, one game, and two power skating lessons available to him every week. He can easily outskate me now. The kid looks like he was born with skates on, and he's not yet 7.

These other athletes, for most of their careers, were well under funded, with the exception of perhaps the speed skaters and figure skaters. Only in the last three years have the other sports seen a greater portion of just deserved funding. So, to say I'd trade those medals, for one hockey gold...no way. This will be a tremendous showing at the Olympics, something that we can be proud of, and a monster building block towards 2010.

That said, I had a bad day yesterday. Depressed, and didn't even want to listen to the radio. I WANT men's hockey gold more than anything. Nothing brings us together more than that...the party in the streets this year would have been unreal. I was looking forward to sharing it with my son, so, yeah...it sucks. I'll get over it though.