| 25 February 2010
With only four countries left in Chase for Salvador Dali's Jewelry, the National Hockey League begins to ramp back up towards conducting a regular season of hockey. Two-thirds of the Olympic squads are now eliminated, allowing General Managers across the continent to begin a long overdue exhale. Even so, 26 teams are nervously watching Olympic hockey, waiting the return of players that the IIHF checked out for their research project. But before we get to them, let's take a look at the four teams that are now intact.
Tell me if you can spot the trend.
New York Islanders - 27th in the National Hockey League. When Team USA finally finished the Swiss, Garth Snow welcomed the mighty Mark Streit to Uniondale. Now get back to work.
Florida Panthers - 26th in the National Hockey League. Vokoun couldn't stop the Finns, and Dennis Seidenberg somehow avoided being on the ice for any of the Canadian's 8 goals. Nevertheless, it's back to the beach for these two. Vancouver is cold!
Atlanta Thrashers - 24th in the National Hockey League. Kovy stole Malkin's number, and for nothing. Four others from the ATL were ousted yesterday, including Johnny Oduya - the least sounding Swede in the history of Swedes.
You see the trend? Terrible NHL teams do not breed Olympic gold medalists. A trend that will no doubt continue with our fourth fully-reformed team:
Washington Capitals - 1st in the National Hockey League.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA?
It's true. The Caps got word that Ovechkin, Semin, Backstrom, Fleischmann, and Varlamov are all headed home. It's time to play the "Losing Makes Us Hungrier" card.
After all, it's worked so well for the Isles.
Other Notes:
- The Canucks are the only team left assured of a gold medal, with a player on each of the four remaining squads. Hopefully, Sami Salo isn't the one getting new hardware for his locker. That guy can be such a prick.
- You know, Washington, you'd still be in this if you hadn't traded your best Olympian, Milan Jurcina, to the Blue Jackets.
- 26, Anaheim leads all teams with 7 players still alive and kicking. Iceland has got to be worried.
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