U.S. Women Destroy Team Switzerland

Team U.S.A. dominated Team Switzerland today with a final score of 9-0 although the game was really done halfway through the first period when Team U.S.A. was up by five goals.  What more can you say?

Next up…Team Canada on Wednesday!

Olympics Begin!

Every four years the Hat Trick gets pretty excited…and for a very special reason.  No, it's not a Presidential Election year but the Winter Olympics!  The Hat Trick is a huge fan of the skiing, bobsledding, ski jump and, of course, the hockey!

While the Hat Trick makes time for the Men's Hockey, one of my bigger passions is watching the U.S. Women's team.  Women's hockey has a different feel, less physical in most cases…unless the U.S. Women are playing Team Canada!  Team U.S.A. looks poised to go deep in the medal round during the Sochi games and I find myself ready to watch.  Unfortunately the Hat Trick missed the first game against Finland (a 3 - 1 victory for Team U.S.A.) due to some time change confusion but have the rest of the games scheduled on my DVR and we are ready to go!

Go Team U.S.A.!!!!!

Women's Hockey Will Return for 2014 Games

Despite concern that Women's Olympic Ice Hockey is dominated by Canada and the United States it looks like the sport will return for the 2014 Sochi Games. Apparently the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is worried about some of the scores from the Vancouver Games...like a 18 - 0 beat down of Slovakia by Canada.

For the Hat Trick it's alarming to hear that the IOC is willing to consider eliminating a sport simply because some countries aren't as successful in the sport. Got to love the mantra of "making it fair for everyone" and punishing those athletes who are successful in their given sport. Wonderful. How about this idea: Get Better? If we have learned anything about the Olympics it should have been in 1980 when the U.S. men's team beat the Soviet Union in their run for the Gold Medal.

Obviously some sense of sanity is still with the IOC and women's ice hockey will return.

Sweden Takes the Win, Canada Routs Slovakia

The Swedish Women’s Hockey team handily beat Switzerland yesterday with a final score of 3 – 0. The Hat Trick didn’t get to see the last half of the game due to having to take care of the “Little Hat Tricks”…Mrs. Hat Trick is spending the weekend in Miami visiting her best friend and creating havoc in that crazy city.

The Hat Trick missed Team Canada's (women's hockey) first game against Slovakia but apparently I didn't miss much: Canada routed Slovakia 18 - 0. Ouch.

Now the U.S. Women’s team is up today at 3:00 P.M. EST. Hopefully the Hat Trick can get some score updates as he travels to West Palm Beach for his boy’s weekend with an old college buddy. Should be good…a lot of fans are predicting that Team USA will eventually face off against Team Canada for the Gold medal. Should be some good hockey and hopefully not the rout that Canada put on the Slovaks.