Is Go Juice Approved for the Olympics?

A can of Coca-Cola mixed with a two shots of espresso or a bottle of Starbucks mocha frappuchino acts like EMT flat paddles on the chest -- a nice jump-start on a cold day. Or the morning after staying up late to watch Vancouver at Phoenix and Minnesota at Anaheim.

I call it Go Juice.

As we get closer to the Winter Games in Vancouver, I have to ask whether this is a legal boost for East Coast viewers of the Olympics.

Everything from Nagano in 1998 seemed to be late, and I was living on the West Coast. I spent one of the Olympic weeks in Kauai, where seemingly all of the Olympic action was broadcast on tape delay as well.

Want to see the big Olympic hockey games? Back then, you had to wait until after "Late Night with David Letterman" -- HAWAII TIME -- before the game would begin. Not a happy experience.

I hope for better this February, but I do have my Go Juice ready for the long haul.

Fresh from TSN and CTV, here is what Team Canada will look like in Vancouver. Over at Puck Daddy, you can find the rosters for Finland and the Czech Republic.

From the Rink has the rosters for Germany and Switzerland. Also there are the rosters for Latvia, Norway and Slovakia.

And now, on to the scoreboard.

THE SCOREBOARD
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Buffalo 4, Pittsburgh 3
At N.Y. Islanders 2, Columbus 1 SO
Nashville 4, at St. Louis 3
At Dallas 5, Chicago 4
At Phoenix 3, Vancouver 2 SO
At Anaheim 4, Minnesota 2
The standings are here.
The roundup is here.
Three stars by Puck Daddy.

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Peoria 5, at Lake Erie 3
Providence 3, at Springfield 2 OT
At Worcester 5, Manchester 2
Hershey 5, at Norfolk 3
At Milwaukee 7, Rockford 1
Syracuse 4, at Texas 3 SO
The standings are here.
The roundup is here.

EAST COAST HOCKEY LEAGUE
Florida 4, at Gwinnett 1
Elmira 7, at Reading 1
At Stockton 5, Bakersfield 1
At Las Vegas 3, Idaho 1
The standings are here.

QUEBEC MAJOR JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Cape Breton 6, Halifax 0
At Saint John 5, Prince Edward Island 2
Baie-Comeau 5, at Chicoutimi 4
Moncton 4, at Acadie-Bathurst 3
At Val-d'Or 2, Rouyn-Noranda 1
The standings are here.
The roundup is here.

ONTARIO HOCKEY LEAGUE
London 4, at Guelph 2
Erie 4, at Saginaw 1
Barrie 7, at Kitchener 4
At Ottawa 4, Belleville 2
Plymouth 5, at Sarnia 2
At Sudbury 4, Sault Ste. Marie 2
The standings are here.
The roundup is here.

WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Moose Jaw 6, Prince Albert 3
At Calgary 4, Regina 3
Lethbridge 2, at Edmonton 1 SO
At Kootenay 5, Red Deer 4 SO
At Chilliwack 6, Prince George 1
At Portland 4, Spokane 3
At Tri-City 1, Everett 0
The standings are here.
The roundup is here.

UNITED STATES HOCKEY LEAGUE
At Youngstown 4, Waterloo 3
The standings are here.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP
Group A (at Saskatoon)
United States 12, Latvia 1
Canada 8, Slovakia 2
The recaps are here.

Group B (at Regina)
Czech Republic 7, Austria 1
Sweden 4, Russia 1
The recaps are here and here.
The standings and statistics are here.
Three stars by Puck Daddy.