Canuck

  Tuesday, 19 February 2002

 < 11:57:20 PM>.

CBC Sports Online : 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah : newsThough the Canadians have won every world championship, the U.S. won the first-ever Olympic championship with a 3-1 victory over Canada at the 1998 Nagano Games.

The Americans have won their last eight games against the Canadians.

The gold medal game is Thursday (7 p.m., ET, CBC).

Argh. I'll be on the train to Montreal. Perhaps I'll arrive to see catch the end of the game.

< 11:54:11 PM>.

Trailing after two periods, the Canadians exploded for five unanswered third-period goals to rally for a 7-3 victory over a game Finnish squad in first of two women's hockey semifinals on Tuesday.

At least we can count on the women to get to the gold medal game. Go Canucks!

< 10:42:42 PM>.

Too funny. I found lots of referers to my Canuck site as well. Many people are out there scouring the net for pictures of our favourite goddess and who the heck can blame them.

< 10:21:13 PM>.

Well blow me over. I think I'm getting this stuff figured out. I've had a manila site for years and just now have I managed to find the referers page. Actually I think I've seen it before but it wasn't until tonight that I realized how handy it could be. I saw a link from Glenn F's page and wondered what the heck that was about. Omigosh.

BTW, it was from Glenn that I got the great Flash hack.

< 1:01:06 AM>.

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