Heartbroken

This is separate because I didn’t want to put it in the same post as the story of an interesting and fun day which is detailed in the post below this one, along with six photos below that. It’s 10:45 and I’m just back from town. I went to watch the game, but there was a Champions League match at the same time and Chelsea was playing and everyone here has been a Chelsea fan since day one, or at least since they signed Ghana’s favourite son, Michael Essien. Anyways, I caught a bit of each period, including the end. Enough to see Kovalev ice it. I hate losing to Russia, far more than any other team. Although if we’d lost to any other team, I’d probably be cursing them. Either way, I’m extremely down. What a total disappointment.

Second-guessers and Monday morning quarterbacks are annoying. But Canada’s performance bordered on disgraceful, so a bit of criticizing is necessary. These guys make 100 million combined. I am certain that they are all extremely disappointed (distraught?), and so they should be—they should have done better. It’s somewhat fitting that it all ended with Chris Pronger in the penalty box. This was a terrible performance for Canada. When you compare this team to our overmatched but gutsy junior team that took out a much more skilled Russian team, the pros come away looking like bums.

BUT, in my almost-23 short years, I’ve learned that you can’t win ‘em all. These guys gave it their all, I have no doubt about that. They just didn’t have the chemistry. Gretzky put together a gold medal team four years ago and we should all be grateful for that. It didn’t work for us this time, but we’ll be back.

So in conclusion, I’m totally down. I feel like I’m in a nightmare that I can’t wake up from. Losing to cocky jerks like Kovalchuk only makes it worse. But the sun will still rise tomorrow and we’ll gradually get over it. And the next time we beat Russia, it will be that much sweeter. Still, this is a brutal pill to swallow.