Canada's Game

It's hard to believe that it's been almost a week since the Olympics drew to a close.

I didn't get a chance to update on the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game but you probably have heard that CANADA came out victorious in the end after a tense overtime goal by Sid the Kid Crosby, another person that will for sure be lighting the cauldron when the Games come back to Canada.

It's beyond my skill as a writer to describe what that gold medal, a record breaking 14th for Canada in Vancouver, meant to this country. The TV ratings averaged 16.6 million for the nearly three hour affair, making it the most watched program in this country's history. Keep in mind that Canada's total population is about 33 million. So having 16.6 million people watching that game would be equivalent to about 160 million Americans watching a TV program.

About 80%, or 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the game at some point. That's just absolutely incredible and I don't know what other event would even draw close to the same amount of people.

I'm not sure how to put the Canadian reaction into words but I think this video does some justice to what a victory that was for all 33 million hearts across this land: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHc6VGIK8-I&feature=related

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