Hockey is Canada's Heart.

I know that the 2014 Olympics are not going to be that same.

Nothing will ever compare to 2010.  No other games. 

Those games brought this entire country together, the amount of pride out poured then was beyond any dream we could ever have.

When Crosby scored the golden goal the entire country was there.  We as a country had scored that goal.

We had never won gold on our own soil before.  No other gold mattered besides the gold in men’s hockey.  That is the only medal we cared about.  All the other medals nice bonuses.   If we had only come away with that one gold medal this country still would have been over joyed.  We needed to win, we needed gold, and redemption.  We needed to prove that hockey was ours, that it was our sport.  Hockey was Canada and Canada was hockey.

I will never be able to put my emotions into words.  The feelings I have can not be explained.

So in 2014 we will go to Russia, we will stand behind our athletes, we will cheer loud and strong as one voice.  

Canada has an odd form of patriotism.  Canadians need to be told it’s okay to be proud.  We would rather stand back and silently cheer our athletes on,  Feeling the same sense of pride as every other country but not screaming it out loud.  When it comes to hockey it’s like all of these  are broken down. We know we own this game, it is ours and we let our pride show.  This can be seen every olympic hockey game, every World Juniors competition.  Only then we will stand up and cheer.

This is not how I truly feel, I can’t put that feeling into words.  

p.s It only took me 2 years to write about the Olympics.