| 20 February 2010
With Team Canada having a two day break before facing Team USA on Sunday, the athletes had a day off yesterday. Babcock gave the players the Friday off to relax and enjoy the Olympic experience before getting back to hockey mode today. With Sunday's game being able to decide who will take the top spot in the Group A standings, Brodeur spent the day promoting GE's Healthyimagination skate event and spent time with his family pin trading.
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Starting off the day infront of hundreds of screaming fans, Olympic medalist, Martin Brodeur along with Michelle Kwan, Scott Hamilton and Angela Ruggiero helped kick off GE's Year of Better Health by honoring the better health heroes of the Vancouver Olympics. MC'd by Team 1040's Barry Macdonald the Olympians did a panel discussion about how they lead a healthy lifestyle before the panel broke up for media interviews. Brodeur called himself a "happy go-lucky" guy and that part of his training requires him "taking time to enjoy my life".
After the discussion the panel broke up for the media portion of the event where all the focus shifted to Sunday's game against Team USA. Babcock has announced that Brodeur will get the start against the Americans but won't confirm that he be the starter for the rest of the tournament, though it is expected that he will.
The loser of the game tomorrow will not be eliminated but will play have to play an extra game in a qualifying quarterfinal to get to the quarterfinals. Other games on tomorrow's super Sunday of Olympic hockey include the Russians vs. the Czech Republic and Sweden vs. Finland.
More photos from the event after the jump
After meeting Michelle Kwan in person, I can say she is one of the most gorgeous people in real life. Just wow.
Vancity Canuck writes about the Vancouver Canucks at Benched Whale and the Tampa Bay Lightning at The Hockey Bay Blog in addition to her work on Bloguin's Olympic Hockey Blog.
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