And The Better Team Wins
Well, I just got done watching the Canadian men get eliminated from medal contention at the hands of Russia.
Not cool.
But I’m less upset than I thought I would be. I got to see the final period of the game and it was, frankly, pretty fucking sad. I don’t know how they played in the first two periods but if the third period was any indication then I’m glad they’ve not moved on. They didn’t deserve to be in medal contention.
Bertuzzi is a fucking twat. Fuck Bertuzzi. I would call his stupid ass penalty the turning point. The goal was scored on that penalty and from that point on the timeclock became Canada’s biggest enemy. Scoring a goal and having it waved off only killed morale further. That and the fact that we were constantly beat to the puck, we were molasses-slow, lacked any semblance of discipline and we were quite handily out-shot. We had absolutely no edge (save for raw talent which, sadly, could not be converted to a winning game plan) over Russia and consequently, no business being anywhere near any of the medals.
The bottom line is that Canada performed poorly. Russia and the other teams have been playing splendidly and we deserved to lose this.
We’re still proud of the team and hopefully they can take the lessons they’ve learned here today and get back to kicking the world’s ass in 2010.
And fuck you, Bertuzzi! Fuck you!