Women Shut Out

What's going on here? There has been so much media attention surrounding what appears to be an "issue" with the Canadian Women's Hockey Team scoring 36 goals after 3 games, with only 1 goal against (from Sweden). You've got to be kidding me. Angry emails to CBC and the like saying these outrageous scores are "unsportsmanlike" while hockey analysts who if you ask me aren't worthy of their job sit by and declare this a hindrance to the sport of women's hockey. Once again, are you effin kidding me?!

Suggestions have been made to have goals scored be capped at a random number like 5 or 6. And they don't think something like that would "hurt" the sport? Would anyone want to watch a game that would end in 20 minutes? Would players even want to bother getting all padded up for just 1 period of play?

People said it unsportsmanlike to score that many because the other teams aren't up to par with the Canadians... would you want to watch a game where players eased up? Where if a Cdn got a breakaway would skate half way and just stop? or avoid the net? THAT! would hurt hockey. That would be boring, that would frustrate people more than watching outstanding N. American teams clobber the Europeans.

Unsportsmanlike, would be if the women knowing how good they are, would take hot dog shots, like skating backwards and putting it through their leggs, or closing their eyes when they shoot, or anything else dumb like that. Sid Crosby did that once in his youth, playing against a team he was way up on decided to pick up the puck on the end of his stick and drop it in to the net, not shoot it but skated up to the net, put the stick in the net and drop the puck. That is not what hockey is and Don Cherry chewed him up for it.

Well I for one am Damn proud of the Canadian Women and their efforts on the ice. They went to Turin to play Hockey and they are playing like they have been since they were probably toddlers. If anything, it should demonstrate to the rest of the world that there's a level of equality and a social role played by Canadian women that welcomes them to sport and expects them to be good at what they do.

So Ladies, let's once again Win the Gold, not because the others can't play hockey, But Because

WE CAN!