As noted a couple blogs ago, one of the best parts of any Christmas season is the World Junior Hockey Championships on TSN. And once again, for the third year in a row, its a GOLDEN celebration today after Canada defeated Russia 4-2 in the gold medal game. A couple great leadership stories...
1) Carey Price who allowed a soft goal two years ago in the final of the U18 world championships and was then cut from last year's Canadian team, not only provided solid goaltending for Team Canada, but was named the top goalie of the tournament and the tournament MVP. In other words, times of testing and hardship will come. Its how you respond that either builds character and makes you stronger (or makes you give up).
2) Brent Sutter coached the last two world junior champions for Canada and last year Craig Hartsburg was one of the assistant coaches. This year Hartsburg was the head coach and did a fantastic job keeping the Canadian team focused and playing well. Hockey Canada seems to do a super job of succession planning!
3) And last but not least, how can you NOT be proud to be a Canadian when your Prime Minister is interviewed live during the first intermission and provides good hockey analysis, and yet is so clearly cheering on the team, and even is glad to make jokes when James Duthie (TSN announcer) says, "we profusely apologize for any troubles caused in the economy this afternoon by Canadian hockey fans skipping work to watch the game" and PM Stephen Harper replies, "oh that's okay. I imagine I'm not gonna get too many answer to some of my phone calls today either!"
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