{"id":639,"date":"2005-12-22T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=639"},"modified":"2005-12-22T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T19:39:00","slug":"on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"On Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate going off-topic, but with Christmas around the corner and my reluctance to dissect Stephen Harper&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051222.weltories1222\/BNStory\/specialDecision2006\/\">northern Arctic miltary defense <\/a>spend&#8230;.zzz&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sorry. Anyways, I&#8217;ve decided to skate off topic on this one. As you know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/feature\/?fid=8747&amp;hubname=\">Team Canada <\/a>was announced yesterday. And, with Gilles Duceppe&#8217;s comments on Quebec getting their own sports team, I think it&#8217;s fair game to comment on.<\/p>\n<p>So, if I were picking team, here&#8217;s who I&#8217;d take:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goal<\/strong><br \/>Martin Brodeur<br \/>Roberto Luongo<br \/>Marty Turco<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defense<\/strong><br \/>Rob Blake<br \/>Chris Pronger<br \/>Scott Niedermayer<br \/>Wade Redden<br \/>Adam Foote<br \/>Robyn Regehr<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/2992\/\">Paul Martin<\/a> (Curses! Turns out he&#8217;s American. And, from what I hear, all talk. So let&#8217;s take Jovo instead).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forward Lines<\/strong><br \/>Gagne-Sakic-Iginla<br \/>Nash-Spezza-Heatley<br \/>Richards-LeCavalier-St.Louis<br \/>Staal-Thornton-Draper<br \/>Doan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate going off-topic, but with Christmas around the corner and my reluctance to dissect Stephen Harper&#8217;s northern Arctic miltary defense spend&#8230;.zzz&#8230;.. Oh, sorry. Anyways, I&#8217;ve decided to skate off topic on this one. As you know, Team Canada was announced yesterday. And, with Gilles Duceppe&#8217;s comments on Quebec getting their own sports team, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}