If you can keep your head about you while all around others are losing theirs...

...you just might not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.

Our glorious boys in red and white lost to Finland today, and while they probably played better than they did against Switzerland, I wouldn't seriously argue that they deserved to win. This is a serious crisis. Not because of the Canadian hockey team's medal chances, but because of the frenzy that back-to-back losses are likely going to provoke from hockey fans across the country.

As a baseball fan with a mild liking for hockey, the all-hockey, all-the-time focus of the country's sports media is enough to drive me crazy during the early months of the baseball season, and I'm anticipating something similarly irritating in the next couple of days before the game with the Czechs. With any luck, they'll win that, because I don't know if I want to be in a country with millions of people fretting about three losses heading into an elimination game.

Oh, and one more hockey thing: why is Kris Draper on this team again?