"Canada vs Russia"

And I'm not talking curling! Tonight, finally, a do or die game between Canada and a team we have not won against in 50 years of olympics. Ouch.

But really, going into this thing... did any Canadian doubt the outcome?

Canada hit Russia hard and fast dominating 4-1 by the end of the first period. Much the same for the rest of the game as Team Canada went on to win 7-3... 7-3!!!!! <--- you can't capitalize numbers but image the second 7-3 is capitalized.

Believe it or not since 7-3 was the score towards the end of the 2nd period (no scoring in the third), this game was still a nail biter for me. A couple of Canada's goals came within seconds of each other so a 4 point lead in such a crucial game didn't mean much to me until the final few minutes.

It was especially tense for me when the Russians finally decided to switch out their goaltender. He was really missing some stoppable goals for a while and should have been benched much sooner... I was not happy to see him go. His replacement only let one get past him. Of course, the switch was too little too late.

Of course when the game was out of their reach, the Russian boys were starting some fights and of course our boys fought back and we got some 4 on 4 hockey. Very entertaining since their was no scoring. For such a big scoring gap this game was actually really fun to watch... I think most will agree with me. Maybe not Russia fans but hockey fans in general!

Props to Luongo who made about 30 saves, a number of them were AWESOME! all of them drawing "Luuuuuuuuuuu"s from the all-red crowd.

As the teams we shaking hands at the end of the game btw, Crosby wiped his nose (very distinctly) and proceeded to shake hands with all the Russians... an interesting move whether deliberate or not. lol

Team Canada will move on and face Slovakia (who BTW upset fav'd team Sweden 4-3 tonight) in the quater final. Pressure's on... but so far it looks like we do best in sudden death situations.

If you ask me, Team Canada just wanted to play more hockey. That loss to the US was a set up!