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!

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.

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.

Those are some distinctly Canadian colours that surround Dion Phaneuf in his latest spot with Nike.  Phaneuf must have pegged himself as an Olympic lock when he signed on to participate in this shoot for Nike Training with real life Canadian Olympians Jarome Iginla and Gillian Apps.

You can watch Dion Phaneuf look mean and talk to the camera on Nike’s website, he’s clearly a better actor than singer.  That’s not saying much, though.  While the Olympics are not specifically mentioned, it’s pretty clear that it’s intended to drum-up support via “Nike Destiny”.

So Dion, “Destiny has never won an Olympic gold medal.  Will you rely on destiny or will you FORCE FATE ?”

If we remember back to August, when selecting the 2010 Canadian Men’s Olympic hockey team was in vogue, we set our initial picks here at Hockeyhead.  Looking back, they weren’t too shabby… well except for that Brad Boyes pick.

On the eve of Steve Yzerman and co.’s official selection party we’re revisiting our list from August and tweaking it one last time.  Here in all of its glory is Hockeyhead’s 2010 Olympic hockey team:

Forwards

Rick Nash
Sidney Crosby
Jarome Iginla
Dany Heatley
Vincent Lecavalier
Eric Staal
Ryan Getzlaf
Brenden Morrow
Mike Richards
Joe Thornton
Jonathan Toews
Corey Perry
Brad Richards

Defence

Scott Niedermayer
Chris Pronger
Jay Bouwmeester
Shea Weber
Dan Boyle
Duncan Keith
Brent Seabrook

Goaltenders

Martin Brodeur
Roberto Luongo
Marc-Andre Fleury

There we have it.  No Mike Green (douche, can’t play D), and no Patrick Marleau (I’d play well with Thornton and Heatley, too).  I’m going with Vincent Lecavalier simply because he’s a top-rate talent having a bad year.  There’s no need for Mike Fisher types when you can demand the same game from a far more talented player like Lecavalier or Eric Staal. Jonathan Toews is there because I seriously believe that someone robbed DNA from Yzerman and made him from it.

The walls come down tomorrow, let’s see what happens…