Admittedly, I’m not going out of my way searching for commentary on the Canadian Men’s Hockey team, and their loss in Torino, but all the commentary that I’ve read has been decidedly low key. There’s a lot of “you can’t win ‘em all” and “what can you do?” type of comments out there. Some criticisms of how the team played, but overall, the expected outpouring of angst has failed to materialize. I think it might be tempered by all the success the rest of our (female) Olympians are having - with 19 medals and counting, it’s an impressive performance by Canada at these Olympics. Then there’s the fact that in reality any one of the top 7 (8) countries in men’s hockey are legitimate medal contenders, which means that more than half are going to be on the outside looking in at the medal ceremonies.

It could also be because Canada is getting tired of hockey.

Nah.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “If this gets out, the next words you say will be muffled by your own butt.” - Moe