On sunday afternoon the Kitchener Rangers choked big time and yet all the talk on t.v. radio and the record they were being portraid as over acheivers and did quite well considering how young the players are. In the future all people will remember is how the rangers blew a 3-0 lead in a best of seven western final. The winner will get the Barrie Colts in the ohl final and wasn't expected to win as barrie has assembled a all-star team, thats neither here nor there since the rangers had a complete collapse.
The attitude around here is not unusual as most canadians and especially the athletes are by nature complaciant, till this february's olympics we never cared about success as just competing was good enough. I'm mad as hell as i find it intolerable to watch canadians on the world stage explain away their failures as competing hard and being pleased with their effort while finishing 45th out of 50, finally this winters olympics we saw a huge effort by the canadian olympic coccittee pushing the own the podium program. We finally heard grumbling across canada when in the first week we saw failure after failure of the so called canadian favourites.
You know we have to collectively we must demand more from our own and make them more accountable for their results, as the alternative is we remain the nice guys in the world at all things competitive. We need to be more assertive and less complacient.
Let me know what you think on this subject or any of the others, see you soon
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