Don't Hit the Panic Button Yet...

One day later it still stands that Canada lost yesterday to USA. With most of Canada watching (except for Mike Garcia), Canada lost 5-3 in what ESPN was calling the "Miracle on Ice II". Yes it was our first loss to the Americans in quite a long time but I don't think that the game yesterday had that much on the line other than playoff positioning. What concerns me though is that most of the media and general public are wondering what's going on with our team. Let's not panic too soon here people. If you remember in 2002, we lost to the Sweeds 5-2 in the round robin. It's tough to go an entire tournament without a loss. It's better to lose now than later on in the knock out stages.

The loss yesterday will get Team Canada refocused and back to work. Yesterday was the first game that I was able to watch these Olympics and we didn't look that crisp for the most part. We were really shaky in our end especially with Brodeur trying to do too much with the puck. Our breakout was pretty shaky too with lots of turnovers in our end. Sure we out shot them but most of our shots were right at Ryan Miller's chest (he did have a great game though). We did have flashes of the potential that our talented team is capable of. Canada will take today off and get set for the German's on Tuesday and once we take care of them, it's the Russians after that. We knew somewhere along the line we had to play them anyways. Our road is tougher this way but I still think that we will come out on top. We are just too talented. We have too many leaders on the team for us to break down like we did 4 years ago.

So to all those people in the media counting us out, there's still plenty of hockey yet to play. Regardless of the road we take to gold, the results will still be the same. Go Canada Go!