YEARS AGO I READ SOME CLASSY COMMENTS BY MARIO LEMIUX. I WAS ALREADY A FAN OF HIS, BUT EVEN MORE SO THEN! HE HAS AREADY INSTILLED HIS TYPE OF SPORTSMANSHIP IN CROSBY.
WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT A PLAYER DOES not HAVE to play for “TEAM CANADA”, MARIO CHASTIZED THE CANADIANS WHO DIDN’T WANT TO DO IT! I MEAN, WE GLADLY INVOVE THE U.S.A. IN OUR TRAINING AND JUNIOR PROGRMS. AS A RESULT, MANY CANADIAN PLAYERS (AND ALSO AMERICANS) ARE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME THEY LOVE AND THEN EARN MANY, MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DOING WHAT THEY HAVE A PASSION FOR. I READ A COMMENT ON THE INTERNET BY (PRESUMABLY AN AMERICAN) FAN THAT HE’D RATHER “BURN” CROSBYS’ SHIRT TURN IT IN FOR A REWARD. THANK GOODNESS HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR MEMBERS OF THE GREAT AND UNDERRATED U.S. TEAM!
I KNOW THE SEVERE FRUSTRATION THAT MUST EXIST IN THE MINDS OD U.S. FANS! CANADIAN FANS KNOW JUST HOW GREAT YOUR U.S. TEAM WAS! I THINK THEY WERE A BETTER SQUAD THAN THE 1980 TEAM THAT BEAT THE RUSSIANS! FOR MANY DECADES WE HAVE CHEERED FOR U.S.A. TEAMS HOISTING THE STANLEY CUP THANKS TO HAVING OUR BEST CANADIANS ON THEIR ROSTERS! TO WIT: BOBBY ORR, MIKE BOSSY, BRYAN TROTTIER AND SO ON. IT WAS MEANT LIKEYLY TO BE PART-SATIRE, BUT THE COMMENT REMAINS ONE OF “SOUR GRAPES” AND IS MORE A CHEAP SHOT IF NOTHING ELSE! TOO BAD SUCH A WELL-COACHED A PREPARED TEAM U.S.A LOST! I CHEER FOR CANADA, BUT KNOW AWESOME HOCKEY WHEN I SEE IT PLAYED! K YOU GAINED A LOT OF EXTRA RESPECT UP HE IN THE “GREAT WHITE NORTH!” GO, GO, PENGUINS GO!! SINCERELY, LYNN STEVENS !