Some of the excuses given by Gretzky were little gems <bg>

Things like "People don't realize that because The surface is wider it makes the game tougher to play"

Hmm many russians play in the NHL but still they manage to play well at the olympics. Hmm perhaps Gretzky should ask them how they do it <bg>.

At first I thought that the problems related to Gretzky (even if he's not guilty of anything relating to those bets) could have an influence on the olympics. Maybe yes maybe not. But now I think that perhaps it was more a matter of EGO. They simply forgot that hockey is best played by a team instead of a bunch of guys that don't really care.

I don't remember which movie but it went a bit like this "Students get into a class at the start of a semester. The professor says 'for this class there will be 20 books to read and 10 controls' not long after that a bunch of students leave that class. Then the professor says 'Now that the lazy students are out here's what you'll do in that class for that semester'

I guess that the hockey players for the Canada team did'nt have a test like this one before they were chosen <vbg>