Cards On Ice

It wasn’t pretty, but with a sweep shot towards the net, Sidney Crosby just won Canada a gold medal.  A record setting gold medal.

My heart hurts.  This counts as cardio, right?

Teams traded goals in that period, with Corey Perry scoring for Canada and Ryan Kesler for the United States.  Team Canada has needed Roberto Luongo to come up big for them this period, and he has.  Twenty more minutes to decide one of the best hockey games in recent memory.

Team Canada’s goal courtesy of this guy:

Here is the info about this upcoming product from ITG’s website.
Between The Pipes release date has been set for March 25, 2010.
How do we top last years version? Here’s how!
Each box of 2009-10 Between The Pipes will have 18 packs with 9 cards per pack. All inserts will be seeded 1:8 packs.
That means on [...]

Canada against the USA for all the marbles this afternoon.
My prediction for Team Canada’s key player, after Roberto Luongo is Drew Doughty.  Many thought he made this team as the 7th defenseman, and it turns out he is logging huge minutes, manning the power play, killing penalties and is on the ice late in the [...]

Not sure if any of the collectors out there have seen these, or if you are interested, but there are auctions up for some of the pucks that were used in the hockey tournament at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Check out the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Store on eBay here. Some of them are already pretty pricey, [...]

Canada’s Men’s hockey team locked up their spot in the gold medal game with a 3-2 semi-final victory over Slovakia last night.  Canada had a comfortable lead for most of the game, but Slovakia came on hard in the third and almost tied it up in the last minute.  The Canadians played well, but they [...]

You guys had to know this was coming.  I haven’t gotten the entire team made up yet, but here are three of the key players.  Captain Hayley Wickenheiser, goaltender Shannon Szabados and my former teammate in bantam/midget hockey Colleen Sostorics.