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Our Father who art in Vancouver, hockey be thy name.
Thy will be done, the gold will be won, on ice as well as in the stands.
Give us this day, our hockey sticks, and forgive us our penalties as we forgive those who cross check against us.
Lead us not into elimination but deliver us to victory.
In the name of the Canadian hockey teams,
AMEN!
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In fact Canada have had a really good winter Olympics. Great work.
Mark
were scary....they were down 3 - 0 and they got 2 goals in the 3rd period.
would be consistent with the catholic version. One of your Canadian Olympics team members currently has his pro career right here in my town. His name is Rick Nash and he's popular here though his team is struggling this year.
The guys he'll check today will be his team mates tomorrow. 
We were always #1 when it came being sports lovers. There were times my husband thought we were losing because he was watching the game. When I prayed, I reminded myself that petitioning for a sports win was not really proper., but I did it anyway.
The way I look at todays game is that :
(we don't win)
There is no shame in a younger team being defeated by a gold medalist, especially ine we defeated a week ago. I will congratulate you.
(we win)
I will accept your congratulations with grace.
Angeline
getting fired up for basketball and hockey during the Olympics anymore since amateurs no longer play....I'd much rather watch the 'kids' play rather than pros.
Good luck tho to both teams today.
TONI H
The IIOC had to cave as there wasn't a way to define "amateur" and enforce the rule with governments essentially raising some athletes from their first show of promise. Scholarships for athletics add to the problem. It might have required elimination of some of the favorite competitions that people and TV pay big money to see in the Olympic games.
After all, during the days of the USSR, the Soviets and their satellite states sent teams that were full of de facto professionals.
IMO, all the IOC did when they let American/Canadian pro athletes into the Olympic Games was even the field, as it were.
I also think it just leveled the playing field with USSR, China, and a few more countries that took promising athletes as children to raise in a training camp for their assigned (often not chosen) sport.
They were housed, fed, trained, and transported by the state so they could worry about nothing but their performance. Of course, if they failed too badly, they probably got thrown out with nothing.
I remember when college basketball seniors had to make a decision on postponing playing pro if they wanted to participate in the upcoming Olympics that year. And take a chance on losing out on the best contract. Indeed taking a chance on injury and further delay of signing up for a pro team and taking less money.
The college boys that would go to play would find themselves against men their age and older that had trained while they were in class. Against men bigger and stronger because they trained while they worked summer jobs for money. And so on.
While there is often a mystic dream of an ethereal scenario of pure athletes competing at the Olympics, there isn't anything perfect about real life. If you're suppose to be competing the best, let the best play. Of course, unfortunately there are some that still never have to chance to compete at all because of their situation, but that's also the truth of there is no perfect world.
Roger
I remember growing up in Massachusetts, a child of Quebecois ancestry, and watching the CBC Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts on Saturday nights. I therefore think I know something about the game. I can say quite clearly that today's game was a tough, physical and yet surpassingly clean contest between two very evenly matched clubs. I also think that Sidney Crosby is easily the best thing to happen to hockey since we first heard the name Wayne Gretzky many years ago.
Congratulations to the Canadians on a well deserved victory - always remember, Bill, that the US won the overall medal count in these games.
It was a great game, well played by both sides. always remember Paul, that Canada won the most Gold Medals. 
arbitrarily establishing some sort of weight to each medal. But, the most important thing do is to not establish some sort of amicable solution because there would be nothing left to fight about. That would be no fun.
I guess, for some countries, it is a fine thing.
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