Nobody ever said being a ginger was easy.  Just ask Corey Perry, who at 24 already has a Stanley Cup to his credit.  After getting caught off-guard by Ryan Kesler in the United States’ upset win over Canada, a golden future for Perry was looking grim.

Cue his performance last night versus the Russians, or as Mad Mike Milbury refers to them; “Eurotrash”.  Perry’s two goals helped Canada knock off the Russian machine 7-3.  Perry, a lifelong ginger has some extra motivation to shoot for the gold medal: the gold medal winning skeleton performance of fellow Canadian and ginge Jon Montgomery.

The Anaheim Ducks sniper has a history of winning championships, capturing a Memorial Cup in junior with the London Knights as well as a World Junior Championship.  The title of Canada’s top Olympic ginger is still to be decided.

Childish?  Yes.  I have to admit I love this “X-Tra Normal” stuff.  Here we have Roberto Luongo giving word to Martin Brodeur that he’s no longer number one in goal.  Go Canada Go!

Here at Hockey Head we’ve had an affinity for Melody Davidson’s feathers for quite some time.  With Ryan Smyth’s Olympic years far behind him, Melody Davidson is now Hockey Canada’s de facto mullet boss.

The reason the Canadian women’s hockey team kicks the living shit out every team they encounter is because Melody Davidson eats puny European hockey players for breakfast.

It looks as though Ryan Miller is just too hot for the Olympics.  The United States’ number one goaltender had a snazzy mask depicting a buffed-up Uncle Sam, with his trademark “Miller Time” etched on the back of the mask.  The phrase “Miller Time” has been deemed unacceptable by Olympic officials, due to its association with American brew maker Miller.

According to a report from the AP, Miller plans to contest the ruling.

Richard Park and his blazing set of wheels had a better night on blades than his South Korean countrymen Lee Ho-Suk and Sung Si-Bak.  Park scored his second goal of the night, sniping the winner late in the third to put the Islanders ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-4.

Park narrowly missed stuffing the puck by Ontario Nittymaki on a wraparound attempt then grabbed his own rebound and zipped the little black bastard right into the top corner.  Stripes had to review it, apparently because of its awesomeness.

Canada nearly shit the bed on the Opening Ceremony, I’m just being honest here.  When Wayne Gretzky was introduced as “one of” the greatest hockey players ever, I had taken it to suggest that THE greatest player was going to join him in the lighting of the cauldron.

Where was 66?

Friday Night Fights:

I can’t honestly say there’s a place in my heart for Colton Orr, but I sure love when he gets punchy.