For Team Canada, the trick is not to stumble
Posted Feb 26, 2010 08:28:04 AM.
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VANCOUVER, B.C. – So here now is the next test for Canada’s men’s Olympic hockey team, facing Slovakia tonight in the second of the two tournament semi-finals, with a berth in the gold-medal game on the line: They have gone, in short order, from the highs of facing Russia, their arch-rival and arch-nemesis in Olympic hockey, to the emotional middle-ground, playing a group of likeable overachievers who will gladly play the just-happy-to-be-here card.
From – not underdogs exactly, but a team in tough against a highly skilled side – to heavy favourites against the Slovaks, who were life-and-death to defeat Norway just to get to the quarter-final round.
The trick then is not to stumble, with the prize so close at hand. Thankfully, the Canadian team has enough experience sprinkled with its impressive youth to understand that too.
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