The Gold, My Goals

A phrase that has been thrown around since Sunday night. How about that game? To be honest, I was thoroughly proud, excited, and most importantly, entertained. All of a sudden, the Canada and US teams decided to sober up their skills and play an awesome, intense, and epic game. I seriously did not recognize the team that were crashing into each other and bailing on the ice a few games before. Neither team should be ashamed of their performance, I sympathize with the idea that losing sucks to win a silver, but USA played a great game. I focus on their performance because we all know Canada did amazing with Lou's careful saves and that cinematic finish by Canada's favourite Crosby.

As our Canadian athletes sweep the Olympic gold record and improve their hockey game my ankle injury has- oh wait, some of you don't know yet.

...A few weeks ago in a competition far far away (Carleton, so not really) I was competing in an interuniversity championship. During my individual event I was making a comeback in a losing match when I miscalculated a lunge and sprained my ankle. Although painful, my swearing and tears were directed towards my inability to continue on to the team event, because I am the captain and anchor. Why me...

alright back to me in the present. After several multi-color bruises, physio, tender tendons, and a lot of Prince of Persia, I have finally gotten off of my crutches completely.

The worst part of this ordeal is that I have been unable to work out and fence for several weeks and only until recently have I been given the thumbs up to start doing some biking. Although an improvement from nothing, I dearly miss the sport running in my veins, I miss the way of the sword. It is without doubt I will be back as soon as I can walk without a tenser bandage.

The most important part about getting rid of an injury for an athlete is physio and working out your joints that are injured. Re-determine yourself to get better and you will surprise yourself with the results of recovery. The way this is going, Wolverine would be hard-pressed to heal faster than me.

Christian A.V. Petrozza

Our Game, THEIR FAILURE

I just finished watching the USA-CANADA Hockey game on CTV for the last two periods and had a few issues with it, no wait, that is an understatement, a GIGANTIC amount of issues with it. A friend mentioned on his facebook status and I quote "...is wondering why there is Timbits Hockey on CTV" I completely agree with this. I do not watch hockey as much as I used to *eversincethestrike*cough*richbastards*cough* but when I did I remember watching players scoring awesome goals, checking clean, and STAYING ON TWO SKATES!!!! I felt like I was watching a bunch of baboons on roller skates trying to play hockey on an uneven frozen lake (u heard me, roller skates, frozen lake), and it wasn't just Canada, the United States as well!!

You would think that these guys are getting paid through the nose, ears, and other gaps in the human anatomy to play HOCKEY, but apparently even after their NHL and Canadian lets-win-medals program money they STILL can't skate, or play a proper last minute with six players.

At this time in my rant I would like to point out that WOMAN'S HOCKEY appeals to me for this exact reason. They are CLEAN, they are AWESOME, and they don't bother doing this deaking BS that all men's team players do. The women skate up to the net and shoot, they don't get uber close and try to dizzy the sumo wrestling goalie into forgetting where the puck is then MISS when they are point blank because they forgot that they actually had to score!! So lots of respect to the simplicity, clarity, and finesse of Woman's hockey.

Now remember I am not mad about our loss as much as I am about what men's hockey has become. This was disgraceful on both ends and I hope either both coaches are fired, or they just do not allow NHL players to be in the Olympics, because clearly, they have too much money to care whether they are playing a great game, or playing the same way a rock parties at a rave.

Next time CTV, Show something more awesome next time, that we are actually good at, Like Skeleton, Moguls, Snowboarding, or Speed skating.

Christian A.V. Petrozza