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.