{"id":361605,"date":"2010-02-24T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-4212827141589021507"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:01:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T04:01:18","slug":"canada-v-usa-bring-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361605","title":{"rendered":"Canada v USA &#8211; bring it on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t watch the first USA v Canada game. But now &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/sports\/2010wintergames\/Team+Canada+brings+down+Russia\/2609086\/story.html\">Team Canada brings down Russia (Montreal Gazette)<\/a><small><\/small><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; At the Olympics, Canada hadn\u2019t defeated the Russians in any form &#8212; as Russia, the Soviet Union or United teams since 1960, that black-and-white TV era when Canada was represented by Harry Sinden and his fellow Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen. Canada\u2019s overall Olympic record against Russia just improved to 2-9.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s been 50 years since Canada celebrated an Olympic win over this nation, and if that number rings a bell, it should. It was also 50 years between Olympic gold hockey medals when Canada won at Salt Lake City in 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Canada next faces the winner of the Sweden-Slovakia game. The US beat Switzerland so they play the Czech-Finland winner.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At this point both the US and Canada are favored to win their next games.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If they do, we&#8217;re set for one hell of a showdown.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Update 3\/4\/2010<\/b>: It was all we could have hoped for. Fabulous game. Just fantastic.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-4212827141589021507?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t watch the first USA v Canada game. But now &#8230; Team Canada brings down Russia (Montreal Gazette) &#8230; At the Olympics, Canada hadn\u2019t defeated the Russians in any form &#8212; as Russia, the Soviet Union or United teams since 1960, that black-and-white TV era when Canada was represented by Harry Sinden and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}