USA!!!

If you can't be in Vancouver, Mike Mangino's new home theater is the next best place to be. We all watched tonight's game in high-def thanks to Mike and Express Vue....no thanks to NBC for relegating one of the marquie hockey match-ups of the decade to mnbc. Well, at least I didn't have to spend the evening yelling at JR and Edso to please shut up and allow the rest of us to enjoy the game (sorry guys, but you get to be in BC so cry me a river-and JR, when are you gonna drop 'em with Millsy-Vanilly! ).
Now, the comparisons to 1960 or 1980 are a bit of hyperbole-really, there are so many Olympic teams full of NHL stars that the odds of winning are much like the odds any night during the season. Typically, tonight it came down to goaltending. Miller was hot, Martin was not. I was surprized by the sluggishness of the Canadien team, but not by the hustle from the Hawks on the ice. Tazer did a great job pressuring the puck, Seabs was solid, Dunc's was quick moving up the ice, and Kaner not only showed speed-he showed strength! All in all, every bit the entertaining game I'd hoped for, even down to the spectacular open net goal to seal the deal. You probably couldn't ask for a better advertisement and promotion for the NHL in the Unioted States-
--except very few Americans got to see it!
Go Hawks!!!!!!
-tib