Canada and the United States better get used to one another — they are going to be playing for hockey gold many more times over the next decade.
Team Canada played its two toughest games in these Olympics against the Americans, a country that is a bonafide hockey power. Sure, Russia may have the best top-six forwards in the world, Sweden has the Sedin brothers and a fantastic goaltender, and every other country, Finland, the Czechs and the Slovaks, have a solid array of top-end talent, but the depth is not there.

At the start of the season, the Calgary Flames never expected to be in a dogfight just to simply make the playoffs.
The Stanley Cup was the goal, and with the Sutter brothers firmly entrenched at the general manager and head-coach positions, a deep playoff run was expected.

By this time, I’m sure everyone has studied, backwards and forwards, the Canadian Olympic hockey roster.
Unless you live under a rock, you heard last Wednesday’s announcement that named three goaltenders, seven defencemen and 13 forwards to Team Canada.

A political drama, if one can call it that, unfolded last week in Alberta. Two members of the Progressive Conservative Party crossed the floor of the Legislature and joined with their more radical brothers-in-arms, the Wildrose Alliance Party. The rivers of Egypt ran red, and were as blood.