RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE WCH
by The Sparkyman
Spark here.
So the World Cup of Hockey tournament has seen some very entertaining hockey games thus far. The ‘young guns’ are fast and exciting. Team Europe is curiously good. Team Finland was disappointing. Team Russia was super talented with the wrong coaching strategy – if they had one at all. Team Czech – were they in this tournament?? Sweden – predictably good – great overtime game with Team NA.
The future of Team Canada is in good hands with McDavid and company. So too is the future of Team America with Johnny Hockey, Jack, Seth and Austin. The older American roster? Yeh – not quite up to snuff.
Did you like all the Sportvision data tracking, mining, visualization, matrix analytics (whew!)? Top end speed of a player, acceleration, clocking puck howitzers – pretty cool stuff. And the advertising on the boards – did you catch that? And who is Pizza 73??? Never heard of them – but they must have the dough (was that a funny?) to afford the ad fees. (Turns out they are out of Edmonton with locations throughout Alberta and BC. Operated by Pizza Pizza.)
And the Ref-Cam – nice !!
Back to hockey – Canada – pretty solid. Doughty and Weber – studs! Carey Price – he’s back! Marchant – hate him. But love him on Sid’s wing for Canada. And Sid – what’s not to like about his game.
Canada and North America semi-final?? That would be sweet ! Go Finland!
Hey – I have a song, or that an ‘anthem’, for the young guns team – “I’m an Adult Now” by Pursuit of Happiness.
“Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
And I guess it won’t be long
For I’m sitting in a room with a bunch
Of people whose necks and backs are aching”
Sounds like the aftermath of a hockey game.
As previously predicted – Canada wins! But getting emotionally charged???
…..”here’s another shot – right in front – they score!! Henderson has scored for Canada!! Not that kind of emotion – dialed back a bit.
Until next time – this is Sparkadoodle, signing off.