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  • Hurricanes 5, Maple Leafs 1.

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    james

    Well, Now that all that excitement’s well over with, back to business as usual. Which, roughly translated, means we up here in the great white north set our sights on another playoff missed. I’m willing to chalk this last game up to just returned from the olympic break. But somehow, I don’t think that’s it.

    Last time

    We didn’t do any better in January either, getting beaten up on 4 2 instead of Tuesday’s 5 1. Still, at least this time we only sucked very slightly less. And Burkey pulled the trigger on a trade as a result of it. Will it help? Well… it can’t hurt.

  • Canada 3, USA 2–our boys are golden!

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    james

    Don Cherry said victory was in the bag. Mike called it. I had a sneaking feeling. And on Sunday afternoon, we owned it. It took overtime, but Canada pulled off what we couldn’t even come close to 4 years ago. Ladies and gentlefolks, Canada has done exactly what we were supposed to do–own the podium. I said it before, and I’ll say it again. Suck it, USA. We win.

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  • Apparently, our men rock at curling. We’re golden.

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    james

    Another gold metal on Saturday. Another little known–at least by me–sport. But, I’ll take it. Canada’s men’s curling team took gold finally Saturday evening. Yeah, we definitely don’t suck.

  • Another bobsled metal for Canada.

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    james

    Canada’s 4-man bobsled team worked its way to another metal on Saturday. This one bronze, and Canada’s second metal in the event–the women took one earlier in the games.

  • Jasey-Jay Anderson comes up with slalom gold.

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    james

    Saturday was apparently golden hat trick day. Jasey-Jay Anderson snowboarded his way to another one in the parallel giant slalom. Yeah, pretty sure we have a brand new record for gold metals swiped. Smile, Canadians. We don’t suck.

  • Still more gold, this one in team pursuit.

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    james

    Canada did it again, on Saturday. Speedskating team pursuit, courtesy of Mathieu Giroux, Lucas Makowsky and Denny Morrison this time. And, this time, I think we walked out of these olympics with a record amount of gold. Someone feel up to correcting me on that?

  • Canada’s gold rush: 5000-meter speedskating relay.

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    james

    Canada’s relay team nailed our 21st metal of the games. And it’s a record tying gold. It also happened on Friday in the 5000-meter speedskating relay. Gees, deal with technical issues for a week and the team kicks ass. Sometimes, I love this country.

  • A Canadian sandwitch in speed skating.

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    james

    Charles Hamelin walked away Friday night with yet another Canadian gold. A bronze went to Francois-Louis Tremblay followed him with a bronze. Both in 500-meter speed skating. Apparently, Friday was the day of metal if you’re a Canadian. Yes, I know, I’m 5 days behind. Oh well.

  • Canada goes silver in womens’ curling.

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    james

    We have a second place finisher. Yeah, I’m a little behind–technical issues abound. Still. On Friday, Sweden knocked off Canada for the gold, but we walked out of that arena in second place. Not bad for a sport I didn’t think anyone still watched. Now, to finish catching up on my olympics blogging.

  • So that’s where all the semi-cheap apartments went to.

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    james

    For about two or three months before I moved to Pembroke, I scouted the apartment listings for a halfway decent place that doesn’t knee me in the wallet. The very few places I found that didn’t were, well, closets. My room during my time at Algonquin College was considerably bigger–they pretended to call it a bachelor. And, of course, now that I’ve found this apartment to fake my way through calling home for a price that almost doesn’t knee me in the wallet, halfway decent places for almost halfway decent prices started becoming available. Now, just when I can’t actually move into a place like that. Somebody clearly has a very cruel sense of humour. Nice to know such creatures exist, though. Now, if they just could have showed up while I was still looking.

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