February 28th

In my last blog I talked about how on February 28th Canada made Olympic history by winning fourteen gold medals. It had all come down to the men's hockey finals. A game with so much on the line for Canada and the United States respectfully. Canada needed the win to redeem themselves from their previous loss, and to prove to the world that hockey is our game. The States needed the win to prove to the critics that beating Canada wasn't a fluke and that they are indeed a force in the hockey world. Now, on to my journey of how I was able to see the game winning goal. As you may of already known, I was scheduled to have a practice at six pm that sunday night in Etobicoke, and the game had started at 3 something. This posed a huge deleima for me and my teamates. Some decided that they would get to practice so early, they could see the entire game at Jack Astor's. Well some friends and I decided to watch the first period at home and then make the long commute to practice together and make it in time to see the end of the game. We listened to the car radio the entire way up, and we were devastated when we heard that the US had scored to tie the game with under a minute left in regulation. At this point we had just entered Etobicoke and we were desperate to find the Jack Astor's where our friends were, but all we had was an address and no map. We managed to find the right street, but we went the wrong way for about 5 minutes before realising what we had done. We immediately turned around and began to break some rules of the road to ensure we made it on time. As we approached the restaurant, overtime had startedand we were desperately looking for a parking space. Ofcourse, we found one at the back of the parking lot and we had to make a run to the front doors. When we got inside, we made a "B" line for the bar area and breathed a sigh of relief as the game was still going on. Not more then a minute later, Crosby scored the game winner and the bar went into an uproar! It was a perfect end to a long journey.