[Alberta's Child]

Your post reminds me of a story I read about Anatoli Tarasov, the legendary Soviet hockey coach in the 1960s and 1970s. He was very critical of American hockey but found our society fascinating. I'll paraphrase something he said (this might be very close to the exact quote) that captured the essence of both:

"You put men on the moon, you teach dolphins to do tricks in front of spectators, and you have dozens of different kinds of mayonnaise in the aisles of your grocery stores ... but your hockey players can't even pass the puck accurately to someone three meters away."

LOL.

[PSUGOP]

Cruz is a bit of a jerk, but he is our jerk and he is damn talented.