Hats off to Slovakia!

There are two reasons to celebrate and take your hat off here these days. The first is the Slovak Olympic hockey team which is undefeated so far as they go into the quarter-finals against their old rivals, the Czechs, who are in 4th place in their division. Tension is high, but the celebration if there is success tonight will be unprecedented. They are already saying this could be the biggest game in Slovak history.

And it’s just not the hockey team that’s hot. The weather is, too. All week the temperatures have been above freezing and our meter of snow is eagerly turning into a lake. But, for the first time this year there is ground to be seen and smelled.

So, Hell’s put of the competition and Satan, tonight, will be the king!

(FYI, Hell is the Italian Goalkeeper and Satan, pronounced Sha-tan, is one of Slovakia’s key players…)