Well, now I'm completely disgusted with the U.S. Men's and Women's Hockey Teams. It's been three days since the Olympics ended, and Canadians triumphed over our ongoing arch-rivals. Early this morning, Sportsnet aired an interview with Ron Wilson, the coach of the U.S. Men's Olympic hockey team.

In the interview, Ron complained about how Crosby's winning goal came in the aftermath of a puck that hit the skate of a referee. In fact, his tone implied that the referee might have deliberately gotten in the way!

To the U.S. Olympic hockey players, I want to say: "get over it" and "deal with it".

I'm a Counsellor by profession, generally an empathetic human being, and can certainly understand the natural disappointment experienced by those hardworking hockey players in losing the gold medal game.

However, disappointed or not, I am appalled by their ongoing poor sportspersonship. I would have expected far more grace and graciousness, particularly at the Olympic level of play. I think the clearly-evident anger of the U.S. hockey team members, the tears, and the sad faces (captured for all time on all the digital media, and sure to cause great regret and embarrassment in the future -- likely far more than the loss itself) ...... even during the presentation of the SILVER MEDALS (!), honouring them for being the second best in the world makes them very poor role models --- far poorer than the Olympian gold-medal winner caught drinking and smoking a cigar in the on-ice, after-game celebration.

Two more points come to mind:

1) Has anyone considered that our amazing "underage" hockey player IS of legal drinking age in Manitoba, her home province? Yup, you've got it ... one may legally drink in Manitoba at the age of 18. You'll have to excuse her, in the aftermath of scoring the only two goals in an Olympic hockey game that ultimately won us a gold metal, that she didn't remember that B.C.'s age of majority is 19.

2) I also wonder if sexism is alive and well. I suspect that if the "offending" hockey player were male, there would have been no issue whatsoever about a celebratory drink or hit of a cigar.

So I am left wanting to quote the late Ralph Smith, an old and dear friend who had a wonderful ability to get to the meat of ridiculous issues. The question I would like to pose to the U.S. Women's and Men's Olympic hockey team members is: "Would you like some cheese with your whine ???? !"

The very very poor sportspersonship being shown from some of these athletes concerns me because it's a terrible legacy for up-and-coming hockey players in their own country, and perhaps worldwide .... and it doesn't seem to be abating in the least.

My wish for the U.S. Women's and Men's Olympic hockey teams and their support personnel is that they soon begin to celebrate what a feat they managed to accomplish ..... and that they are able to very soon turn their sour grapes from whine into wine.