I watched the Canadian Olympic dream team get off to a relatively slow start and then seemingly kick-in to win their first game 8-0. Given the collective talent I thought it was an appropriate margin of victory. Then something cracked: they barely won the the next game and lost the one after than.
If there is a spiritual centre for Canadian patriotism it is surely hockey. It is, after all, our game. But the initial results do not seem to match the spirit.
I've always thought it was unusual to assemble a bunch of millionaires who are otherwise trying to beat each other, give them a short break from their real jobs and kluge them together as a finely tuned performance machine with very little practice.
If they come together as a team, it's certainly during the tournament, rather than before when it happens.
To me it shows the possibility of the power of a team to prevail over a collection of great individuals. There are many apparently less talent groups of individuals who ultimately win over the dream teams whether they be in business or sport. The promise of every group is to become more than the sum of their parts. If they fulfill that promise they become one as a team.
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