Goal!

For someone who understands nothing that happens on a hockey rink, I've found myself quite obsessed with the US Hockey teams (Men and Women) this Olympics.  Luckily I have a hockey fan dad that puts up with my inane questions like, "What's icing mean?", or "Why didn't they get a penalty? or my most common question "Where did the puck go?".  Thank goodness he loves me or I feel he'd throttle me : )  In hockey though, I feel they get the short-end of the stick sometimes in the grand scheme of things.  Most events like figure skating or luge finish up within a day or two so those competitors are able to go enjoy the rest of the Olympics experience.  But hockey (and in the summer, soccer) seems to go on forever.  I've lost count of how many games each team has played but I have to say they've all been thrilling.

This weekend's game between US and Russia was awesome.  The overtime rules were a mystery to me but I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.  Today's game with Czechoslovakia wasn't nearly as thrilling as that one, but they had some good plays (from what I can tell - what do I know?)  and grabbed the win to go onto semi-finals (still not the gold medal game- ugh!) While the women finally get to play in the big game tomorrow.  As tired as I am of snow, I'm hoping for a snow day (seeing as it's 55 degrees right now, I'm highly doubting it) tomorrow just so I can stay home and watch the game.  It'll be awesome and I just know it'll be next to impossible to avoid the darn scores all day.

All I have to say, from one clueless fan is Go USA!  Do whatever it is you do with the little puck and the big stick to grab those golds. You all deserve it!  And maybe in 4 years, I'll finally understand what the heck is going on...