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Toronto Rock rookie Garrett Billings was named the National Lacrosse League rookie of the week for week one.  I spoke with Garrett wednesday afternoon about his five goal and two assist night in a 17-7 win at Boston.

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What a final.  Heartbreak for Canada and a tip of the cap to the US.  A final hard fought between two teams that actually respected one another.

Opening Ceremonies. (Photo Credit: Marsha Knapp Dunleavy)
Unlike Devils forward and former USA world junior Zach Parise, these kids from the States are full of class.  
Once the US scored […]

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Going into the gold medal game Tuesday night here in Saskatoon, I have the same feeling I have felt before every gold medal game.   Is this team good enough to hold off (name the team), this year the US?
 
This year Canada’s challenge is containing the speed of the USA counter attack.  Canada can and will […]

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In the booth on new years eve, Jack Miller and I looked at one another and said  “here we go again.“
Canada fell down a pair of goals to the States and would have to find it within themselves to fight back once again, in order to avoid a quarter final game with Finland.
 
How did the […]

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It is just not proper to say I told you so to anyone.  But it is very tempting. 
 
Taylor Hall’s hat trick in the 8-2 win over Slovakia at these WJHC’s brought to light for the entire nation to see, why this young man will be the first overall pick in the summer NHL entry […]

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Two down, hopefully only four to go for Team Canada and it’s fans. 
 
Two games, 22 goals for zero against.  Two games and two different players stepping to the fore to lead the charge.  None of them named Taylor.
  
120 minutes of next to no shots on starting goaltender Jake Allen.   The Swiss managed a few […]

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A little tinker here and there with the lines for Team Canada, and wham!  What an opener.  The Canadians 16-0 rout of Latvia some will say was expected.  I for one expected a little more fight from the Latvians, who told me there were still on a high from their pre tournament win over Russia.
 
It […]

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All week long Canadian men’s alpine team members have been saying “the Olympics is just another race.”   Having had the chance to talk with athletes who have competed at Olympics in the past, I know this is not how one feels once the games arrive and have passed and are in life’s rear view mirror.
Such […]

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It’s a mindset that needs to change
I feel for Michael Liambas, I feel much more for Ben Fanelli and his family.  The season long suspension handed down to Liambas of the OHL’s Erie Otters was a no-brainer for Commissioner David Branch and his league.
It was a hockey play as hockey people characterize such acts.  However, […]

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It’s a scary thing to see, and a horrible place to be.  A rink where a young man has just been crushed with a devastating hit.  The moments leading up to the hit I have called many times over in my ten years or so of junior hockey play-by-play.  Those moments are exciting, […]

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