On February 15, 2006, defending gold medalist Canada will play Italy to open the 2006 Turin Olympics hockey tournament. It just feels nice to see an important hockey game on the schedule that won't be threatened by labour strife.
Whether NHL players will participate or not isn't yet known because of the lockout, but I'll be watching either way. Hopefully the NHL will have resumed by then and the world's best will gather in Turin. We'll see how our Canadians fare against Italy's Canadians.
