No. 170: SIDNEY CROSBY / Before the famous victories that everyone watched, the brutally tough loss that no saw. In its wake, Hockey Canada was as cold as a mother-in-law's love.

87 won the Olympic gold in Vancouver with the OT goal against the U.S. Seven years before, when he wasn't yet household name, he got stoned in OT vs the Americans & I was the only media witness.

AN either-or proposition has evolved into a rite of the beginning of the calendar year: Canadians celebrate a bunch of homegrown teenagers who are fresh off victory at the world junior hockey championships; or they second-guess the team’s management and take their shots at the kids who let a whole country (of television viewers) down.

The “either” and the “or” are both insufferable and neither seems better than the other. This week it was the latter.

The latest contingent of Canadian teenagers was sent packing with a los…