The Winning Team

Tonight the Canucks put the Predators to bed.  It wasn't a pretty win; they should have won by a much larger margin.  That fact alone makes the Predators a team to watch next year.

I watched slices of the game from St. Paul's cardio out patient ward.   Here, a different kind of team operates under Dr. Ron Carere who oversees approximately 50 life saving angiograms and angioplastis a day. 

Thirty years ago we could not have concieved of a person going into a hospital in the morning, having their arteries cleared and expanded with stents and going home the same night. 

The procedure would have been like something from "The Twilight Zone".  Let alone the whole process leaving no scar other than a small slit in the groin area.

Yeah, the Canucks saved their chance to win the Stanley Cup today.  And like the crowds on Robson Street, I'm delighted. 

But what I'm even more thankful for is the other winning teams out there.  Teams who make a life saving difference every working day.