No Lucky Loonie In Turin?

Call me a skeptic, but I don't belive it for a second ;)
No lucky coin this time around

Associated Press

Turin — The head ice-maker at the Winter Olympics isn't putting his money on the Canadian hockey team. Or any team for that matter.

Canadian Dan Craig said he has turned down a request to place a loonie coin in the ice — something one of his workers did in 2002 at the Salt Lake City Olympics, where the Canadian men and women both won hockey gold.

"My job is to make the ice for everybody," Craig said. "I can't have the Czechs come up to me and say 'What the heck?' I can't have the Swedes, Finns, you name it, come to me and say I did something to favour Canada."

The Lucky Loonie from 2002 has become part of hockey lore in Canada. Wayne Gretzky held it up after the gold medal game as proof that the team had a lucky charm on the ice, and the coin later went on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Craig, who was born in Jasper, Alta., insists there will be no loonies going into the ice.

"I had three Americans and three Canadians on the ice and they must have checked six times to make sure there was no loonie there," said Craig, who is the NHL's chief ice consultant.


Vancouver Sun version:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/...ea01&k=94273