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.

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.

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.

I don’t know about you, but I’m about to heave a cinder block through a CTV window over all this Olympics’ propaganda.  The official CTV Olympics song “I Believe”, which I’ve heard was recorded and produced in the United States, makes me ears bleed.  Enough.

For me, and let’s face it, you if you’re here reading this; only one Olympic Gold Medal matters.  Hackey.

I took the opportunity to talk Olympic hockey on the beer and boobs “men’s site” Gunaxin.  They’ve got their own Gunaxin Show hosted by MastersOfNone co-host Mike.  I’m also a contributor to the Gunaxin machine, so along with Gunaxin co-founder and CapitalsOutsider contributor Zach, I hopped on to talk Vancouver 2010 Olympics’ puck.

I think we may have hockey nerded Mike out by the end of the show, but it’s good fun.  Starting goalie predictions, roster talk, and international hockey’s appeal to the casual fan, just a few of the topics we touch on.  Check ‘er out bud, subscribe on the iTunes.

Upon the announcement that Hockey Canada and Pepsi were teaming up invite fans to help create a new cheer for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, many hockey fans were left puzzled by the sudden interest in ousting the long-standing and simple “Go Canada Go” slogan.

A couple of Canadian hockey fans have taken it upon themselves to lead the charge against the new “Eh! O’ Canada Go” cheer by starting a Facebook group in an effort to boycott the imperialist intentions of Pepsi.

Although the group could use a spelling lesson or two, it’s beginning to build some steam with a couple hundred members in just a few days.  It’s a noble suggestion to boycott the cheer, for a number of reasons:

1.  Not only is it a thinly veiled marketing ploy on the part of Pepsi, but it’s also a lousy cheer.  “Go Canada Go” rolls off the tongue much more naturally, and it’s served this country rather well in the past.  So why bother?

2.  It’s Pepsi, an American born multinational corporation.

3.  Pepsi tastes like shit unless you add rum to it.

4.  Fans should never need to be told what to cheer, the best stuff you can yell at any sporting event is created in the heat of battle.

5.  Eh.  It’s true that most of us Canadians say it, but do we really need to perpetuate stereotypes here?

I could list these all day, but unless you’ve never watched a Canadian hockey game before or have no teeth at the expense of Pepsi then you know what to say when Team Canada takes the ice.