All of a sudden, I'm getting flashbacks to June when Penguins fans would rather come around and rub it in Red Wings fans faces THAN CELEBRATE their victory. If the Wings won the Cup (like they have, ya know, 11 times), I'd be too busy celebrating my ass off to give a flying fuck what the Penguins blogs are talking about. In fact, I don't give a shit what they're talking about right now…

TIME FOR SOME CATCH-UP

@JJ :: Well said. I, too, congratulation Canada and am so proud of our boys in Blue.

@Baroque :: Yeah, it's unfortunate that it had to be Crosby. We just can't get away from that guy. Although, if it had been Perry, we'd be saying "Anyone but Perry!" and if it had been Getzlaf, "Anyone but Getzlaf!" But then we'd remember that Crosby counts as "anyone but…" and we'd live with Perry and Getzlaf. We're forced to swallow Crosby. And it tastes gross.

@Turtle Tracks :: I don't blame you for turning it off. The Crosby love is mind-boggling. He's a good hockey player, but he's not the savior of all that is Holy. BUT! You can't deny he scored a huge goal. What a mess… for Wings fans, I mean. HA!

@Nitz :: I, too, saw the familiar Rafalski, damnit if he didn't play lights out in the tournament. Let's hope he can carry that AWESOME into the final 21 Wings games, eh?

You are a bigger person than I, as I would never give a shout out/hat tip to Canada. Except: Babs, Stevie, Kenny, Jerome Iginla, and Rick Nash. My hatred of Cindy now burns with the intensity of 1 million suns. I thank Gary and NBC for that, assholes.

There is a special place in hell for bottom feeders that "troll" the internet and leave derrogatory comments on opposing team blogs. Nice, apparently they have nothing better to do in their pitiful, boring, moms-basement living lives.

Chin-up Baroque, it will get better, I promise, when another AMERICAN team brings home the Stanley Cup.

God, douchebags. You all know that Anonymous is Corey Perry, right?

I've said it before and I'll say it again — hats off to Hockey Canada, every bit deserving gold medalists.

And yes, now the universe is back to normal and we can ALL hate the Prongers, Getzlafs, Niedermayers, Crosbys, and Perrys together. I love sharing that boat with Americans and Canadians alike.

I can't say I'm surprised by the American team. Coming into this tournament I had a strong feeling that they would finish with a medal. They were young, hungry, determined and anchored by the best goaltender in the world right now. They had underdog written all over them. And in the end, they accomplished something worth being proud of. They easily could have come out the victor.

The Americans earned every single ounce of silver in their medals, of that there is no doubt. Even as a Canadian, on a personal level, I grew to like the players on the US team more. Miller, Parise, Kesler, Langenbruner, Suter and of course Raffi? Fantastic, all of them.

While I proud of my country and my team, I'm not sad at all that I can continue hating Pronger, Perry, Getslaf, Neidermayer and yes, that bastard golden boy, Crosby. While wearing the maple leaf, they are brothers, but as soon as they take it off, they are enemies once again. Thanks for the gold, I hope you fail at everything else.

All the US-based Red Wings blogs were considerably gracious, light-hearted and sportsmanlike the whole tournament. Thanks for that, and please, do not take the bullshit spewing trolls seriously.

One final salute to Team Fuck Yeah America:

Goddamn good game, eh. Hats off.

Sunday was a great day for hockey. Period. Cheers to a legendary game.

If there's two lessons: it's that familiarity breeds contempt, and we're all more alike than some of us would like to admit.

As a U.S. Citizen, I congratulate team Canada, but I'm happy for team USA.

Perhaps you should realize that it's "classless" in and of itself to call others "classless"…

Can't get over how many people on both sides of a great game, can never seem to take winning and losing in stride without attacking each other or the other team…wow!

And I will have no trouble forgetting any of them, as so many of them are gigantic classless douchebags.

Gold Jerry Gold!

And then there are anonymous posters.

If you notice, I was classy enough to give the opponent a shout out. It's a shame you couldn't do the same.

Way to go, I'm sure you're making your fellow citizens (who are OVERWHELMINGLY classy) proud.