A Final Olympic Post

First off we would like to congratulate the Canadian Men's and Women's Hockey teams on winning the Gold Medals in Sochi.  Both were well deserved.  The medals are as follows:

Men:

Gold: Canada

Silver: Sweden

Bronze: Finland

Women:

Gold: Canada

Silver: United States

Bronze: Switzerland

Whenever this tournament started other than our Gold Medal picks we really didn't have a rooting interest.  And yes that meant none of us thought Team USA would Medal.  Sue us.  The only thing we absolutely wanted to see was some good Hockey.  And boy did the Olympics deliver.  Some people will say the lack of scoring takes away from the game but in this Olympics the lack of scoring made for some incredible games.  This Olympics gave us some of the best Hockey we've seen in a long time.  We almost saw Latvia pull off one of the biggest upsets of all time.  The hung with Canada all game long and only to lose on a late power play.  We saw Team USA dominate the group stage of the Men's tournament only to flame out in the medal round losing 1-0 to Canada and then 5-0 to Finland in the Bronze medal game.

Probably our favorite thing of the Olympics was watching the greatness of Teemu Selanne.  He didn't get the Gold like we wanted but he at least went out with a win.  The way it should be.  What an incredible player and an even more incredible human.  It's a shame this is his last Olympics and last season in the NHL.  What a player and it was an honor getting to watch him play.  We also got to watch the greatness of Double J.  The Czech's didn't medal but Double J was great.We saw Canada only give up 3 goals all tournament.  Yes we love to bash Carey Price but he was incredible this tournament.  And last but most certainly not least we saw one of the best hockey games of all time.  The Women's Gold Medal game between The United State and Canada was one of the best Hockey games Men or Women we've ever seen.  I could watch those two teams play any day of the week.  It was better than watching some NHL games.

So thank you Olympics for giving us some of the best Hockey we've ever watched.  We wanted a great tournament and you delivered and then some.  You also proved that Hockey is in fact everyone's game.

Farewell Olympics.  See you in Rio De Janeiro in 2016 and in South Korea in 2018.