the mad sports man

 The two replacements are Victor Primeau and Skye Clarke, replacing Alexandre Duchaine and Olivia Asselin due to injuries to Duchaine and Asselin.  The addition is Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt in cross country skiing. 

 The flag bearers for Canada are Marielle Thompson and Mikael Kingsbury. Great choices I think. Winter Olympics are a week from Friday.

 We start with the ski cross team. They are: Brittany Phelan, Hannah Schmidt, Marielle Thompson, Kevin Drury, Reece Howden, Gavin Rowell and Jared Schmidt. Now the alpine team. They are: Cameron Alexander, Jack Crawford, Jeffrey Read, Brody Seger, Kiara Alexander, Cassidy Gray, Valerie Grenier, Justine Lamontagne, Ali Nullmeyer, Britt Richardson, Amelia Smart, Laurence St Germain. Good luck in Italy all.

 6 lugers here. They are: Trinity Ellis, Embyr-Lee Susko, Kailey Allan, Beattie Podulski, Devin Wardrope and Cole Zajanski. Good luck in Italy all.

 Here is the bobsled team. They are: Cynthia Appiah, Melissa Lotholz, Bianca Ribi, Kelsey Mitchell, Dawn Richardson Wilson, Skylar Sieben, Niamh Haughey (sub), Edin Wilson (sub), Taylor Austin, Jay Dearborn, Keaton Bruggeling, Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson, Shaq Murray-Lawrence, Luka Stoikos, Mark Zanette Chris Homestead. Good luck in Italy all 

 Here's the rest of the snowboarders. Parallel giant slalom: Kaylie Buck, Arnaud Gaudet, Ben Heldman, Aurelie Moisan.  Snowboard cross: Evan Bichon, Tess Critchlow, Eliot Grondin, Audrey McManiman, Liam Moffatt, Maryeta O'Dine, James Savard-Ferguson (alternate). Halfpipe: Brooke D'Hondt, Felicity Geremia, Elizabeth Hosking. Good luck in Italy all.

 Here are the 8 biathletes heading for Italy. They are: Adam Runnalls, Zachary Connelly, Jasper Fleming, Logan Pletz, Nadia Moser, Pascale Paradis, Benita Peiffer and Shilo Rousseau. Good luck in Italy.

 3 will be going down head first. They are: Josif Brusic, Jane Channel and Hallie Clarke. Good luck in Italy all.

 Here's the team representing Canada at the Paralympics from March 6-15. They are: Corbin Watson, Adam Kingsmill, Tyrone Henry, Shawn Burnett, Rob Armstrong, Auren Halbert, Mathieu Lelievre, James Dunn, Zach Lavin, Tyler McGregor, Adam Dixon, Greg Westlake, Vincent Boily, Dominic Cozzalino, Liam Hickey, Anton Jacobs-Webb, Micah Kovacevich. Good luck in Italy all 

 They are as follows: Aerials: Alexandre Duchaine, Miha Fontaine, Lewis Irving, Emile Nadeau, Marion Thenault. Halfpipe: Amy Fraser, Dillan Glennie, Rachel Karker, Andrew Longing, Brendan McKay, Dylan Marineau, Cassie Sharp. Moguls: Laurianne Desmarais -Gilbert, Mikail Kingsbury, Ashley Koehler, Jessica Linton, Maia Shwinghammer, Elliot Vaillancourt, Julien Wiel. Slopestyle: Olivia Asselin, Dylan Deschamps Elena Gaskell, Evan McEachern, Megan Oldham, Naomi Urness. Good luck in Italy all.

 Here's the ski jumping team . They are: Abigail Strate , Mackenzie Boyd- Clowes, Natalie Eilers and Nicole Maurer. Good luck in Italy all

 It's hockey day in Canada. This year, Moncton NB is the host. Today's games has New York Islanders at Calgary starting shortly, Montreal at Ottawa at 6, Toronto at Winnipeg at 6 and Edmonton at Vancouver at 9. All times Prince Albert time. Enjoy. Update: Calgary 4 Islanders 2 Update 2: Montreal 6 Ottawa 5 (ot) Toronto 4 Winnipeg 3 (ot) Update 3: Edmonton 6 Vancouver 0. That's it for another hockey day in Canada.

 Here is the big air and slope style snowboarding team. They are: Mark McMorris, Laurie Blouin, Cameron Spalding, Juliette Pelchat, Eli Bouchard and Francis Jobin. Good luck in Italy all.

 Here is the long track speed skating team. They are: Ivanie Blondin, Laura Hall, Carolina Hiller-Donnely, Rose Laliberte-Roy, Beatrice LaMarche, Valerie Maltais, Brooklyn McDougall, Isabelle Weidman, Ted Jan Bloeman, Cedrick Brunet, Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gelinas- Beaulieu, Daniel Hall, Anders Johnson and David La Rue. Good luck in Italy all.

 Here is the figure skating team. They are:1. ice dance: Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier, Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha, Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Legacy. 2. Pairs: Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud. 3. Women: Madeline Schizas 4. Men: Stephen Gogolev. Good luck in Italy.

 What a day. LA Rams beat Carolina 34-31 and Chicago beat Green Bay 31-27. Two good games to start. Opponents TBD. Tomorrow has Buffalo at Jacksonville, San Francisco at Philadelphia and LA Chargers at New England. Stay tuned.

 Here is the Canadian women's hockey team. They are: Ann-Renee Desbiens, Emerance Mashmeyer,  Kayle Osborne, Erin Ambrose, Renata Fast, Sophie Jaques, Jocelyne Larocque, Ella Shelton, Kati Tabin, Claire Thompson, Emily Clark, Sarah Fillier, Jenn Gardiner, Julia Gosling, Brianne Jenner, Emma Maltais, Sarah Nurse, Kristin O'Neill, Marie-Philip Poulin, Natalie Spooner, Laura Stacey, Blayre Turnbull and Daryl Watts. Good luck in Italy.

 It got interesting the last three minutes of the game. Sweden wins 4-2 (empty better) to win for the first time since 2012. Wow. It was also the first time they played each other for gold. Czech Republic last gold was 2001. Its Sweden 3rd ever gold. Congratulations Sweden.

 Pretty good game here. Canada wins the bronze, beating Finland 6-3 to win their 6th bronze. Coming up has Sweden vs Czech Republic for gold.

 Czech Republic beat Canada 6-4 to play Sweden for gold. Sweden beat 4-3. This one went 8 rounds in the shoot out. Czech Republic played Canada very well tonight, giving Canada very little. Canada vs Finland for bronze is at 3:30 Prince Albert time, Czech Republic vs Sweden for gold at 7:30 Prince Albert time. Final day is near.

 Canada just finished knocking out Slovakia to the tune of 7-1. Yikes. They will play Czech Republic, who beat Switzerland 6-2. Sweden beat Latvia 6-3 and will face Finland, who beat the United States 4-3 in overtime. Sweden vs Finland at 3:30 Prince Albert time and Canada vs Czech Republic at 7:30 Prince Albert time. Both games on Sunday. Also Germany beat Denmark 8-4 to stay up in the top division. Denmark is relegated.

 Happy 2026. I hope it's a good year for you. Have a great one.