I finally had a morning off today and got a little bit of sleep. I have to admit that was nice.
Today started out at noon with Norway vs. Switzerland. That may sound like a pretty boring or uninteresting game, but I was pleasantly surprised. That was definitely the most consistently entertaining game I have seen. In the first 5 minutes of the game, there was a penalty shot, a goal, a 5-on-3, and blood on the ice. It was back and forth for the whole game. The Swiss had an amazingly effective forecheck and Norway's Tore Vikingstad and Patrick Thoresen lit up the scoreboard.
The game ended with a 5-4 OT win for Switzerland. GREAT GAME.
Then in the late afternoon I had my final event of the Olympics: Slovakia vs. Latvia. It was another great chance to meet up with a few Latvians...or at least Latvian-Canadians. It was cool at first to have a seat in the 9th row. However, I soon found out that I could only really see one end of the ice...
Unfortunately, the game did not exactly go Latvia's way...if you can call a 6-0 loss that. The only bright side was seeing Lubomir Visnovsky get a goal. Now he just needs to do that after the Olympics...
So, all in all, a great day and a FANTASTIC week.
Perhaps a conclusion will be forthcoming in a day or two...
