Tis The Season of Giving

Teams I support on both sides of the Atlantic have been in the giving mood of late, getting in the spirit of the season. Motherwell were kind enough to pony up the 1,000th goal Celtic have scored since the formation of the Scottish Premier League (soccer). In grand style within a day or two the Ottawa Senators went a magnitude higher by allowing Montreal Canadiens to notch the 20,000th goal since their professional hockey team was formed. Ottawa still won the game though so were not giving in on those two points. Team Canada only gave up six goals last night but the sixth (in overtime) gave the United States the world junior hockey title for only the second time ever. 15,000 fans in Saskatoon went home shell shocked despite a Saskatchewan native son scoring two goals in the last three minutes to force the overtime in the first place.