Sharks in the Olympics

Canada won 4 medals yesterday to tie the U.S. and Norway for third place in overall medal count, but to the surprise of most of us lost out in the one place that really counts. Canada's mens hockey team will not only not get a chance to defend their Gold medal they have shocked the world by getting knocked out of a chance to play for any medal at all! And in that loss to Russia the Russian team was backstopped brilliany by San Jose Sharks starting Goalkeeper Evgeny Nabokov who shutout the Canadians who had San Jose Centre Joe Thornton playing for them. Thornton is leading the NHL in assissts right now, his team sure could have used an assisst of some kind yesterday. They didn't really play bad but they sure didn't play like a defending champion. Course are four teams in the mens ice hockey portion of the olympics this year that are essentially NHL all-star teams. Canada, Russia, the United States and the Czech Republic. And Slovakia isn't far behind they have half an all-star team and a lot of other quality players with NHL calibre on their team. Then there is Latvia the team that upended the U.S. early on with only two NHL players? NIk Andropov I recognized right off as playing for the Maple Leafs. Even though not on the first line he still had enough to beat the Yanks, eh?