I enjoyed reading this blog post.
We have played a lot of games on the road and we finally get some home cooking. We finally play some division rivals as well.
All of our players will be back in one piece come Sunday’s practice.
Now to sprint to the playoffs and through the last 20 games of the season. And try to stay healthy with 12 more games at home.Wish us luck come trade deadline time.
Go Caps.
Check out this press release from The Conference Board. Consumer confidence rocketed downward in February.
It seems that the simple answer continues to be lack of creation of employment opportunities. If America isn’t working it can’t be happy. If America isn’t working it doesn’t trust our political system. It can’t pay back its credit card debt, it can’t buy cars, and it can’t buy new homes.
All of the focus of our government right now should be on putting America back to work.
Nothing will raise our Happiness indexes more. It seems obvious to me.
Click here for a nice book review on The Business of Happiness. I was honored to conduct the talk and a book signing last night at the Politics and Prose sponsored event and was shocked to see so many people lined up with my book for an autograph. It makes me blush and I feel touched and blessed. Thank you again. I am showing “Gratitude.” Read the book. 
I am so tired.
I watched a lot of hockey yesterday interspersed between work and family time.
First, I saw a bunch of the USA game and watched it with Capitalss employees at the office. It was a tense 2 to 0 game and the USA moves on to the next step in its medal quest. The game was played in a very tense environment with neither team wanting to make a mistake. USA!! USA!! USA!!
Then, I got to watch the second part of the Canada vs. Russia game. That was a blow out. Congratulations to Team Canada. They played ferocious hockey and had great goaltending. LOU!!!!!!!!!!
Goaltending and special teams play usually dictates success or failure in big games and Team Russia got neither. It was shocking to see how ineffective Russia’s power play was with players such as Ovechkin, Semin, Kovalchuk, Malkin, Gonchar, and Markov out on the ice during the series. It goes to show that team work, adherence to systems play, and chemistry is as important as pure talent.
Canada was focused, with cheers from a loud and proud home crowd. They deserved to win. They had clearly the better team last night.
We all had a moment of despair when it appeared that Alex Ovechkin was injured during the game. He seemed to be ok after a few shifts and we will learn more today on how he is feeling.
I then tried to watch some of the Sweden vs. Slovakia game but eventually fell asleep. Slovakia moves on and dispatches Sweden. Peter Bondra has built a really terrific team which has beaten now both Russia and Sweden.
Canada, USA, and Slovakia seem to be the teams to beat now and the best teams left in the field. This will be an exciting last few days of Olympic hockey. I can’t wait to watch this weekend.