Can Team Canada's Men's Hockey Club Bring A Gold Medal To Home Soil?

With the torch lit and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic games well on their way, Team Canada‘s roster provides hope, to hockey fans across this great nation, to take back Gold on home soil.

Sid the Kid, Rick Nash and Calgary Flames Jerome Iginla set the stage in B.C as the starting line-up for a team that has not brought home the gold since 2002. These three NHL stars alone have a combined 210 points this season. Sidney Crosby is first in the National Hockey League in the goal scoring department and Joe Thorton holds first place status in assists. With statistics like these backing their calibre of play, will it be enough to thwart the competition?

Canada expects no less than greatness from superstar forwards like Joe Thorton, Ryan Getzlaf and Danny Heatly, who by the way has been absolutely on fire in the goal scoring department as of late; ranking 6th in the NHL. However, history has proven that statistics aren’t everything.

It is one thing to have a roster made up of the best of the best but it is another to have the ability to Coach that roster in such a way that creates the right type of chemistry among its players. Executive Director for Team Canada, Steve Yzerman, has complete faith in Head Coach, Mike Babcock to achieve such chemistry.

Putting the puck past defensemen like Team USA’s Tim Gleason and Brooks Orpik or behind big goaltenders such as Sweden’s Henrik Lundqvist or Russia’s Ilya Bryzgalov is no easy feat. Team Canada has a lot at stake this year with the shadow of 2004’s less than stellar 7th place finish lurking about.

True Canadian hockey fans are not as forgiving as Coaching staff when it comes to taking back this country’s heritage. Hockey is our game!