Who says that America has lost her sparkle, her edge , her ability to excel and dominate ?  In one field of endeavor, ice hockey, we will this year have come full circle in dominating a sport once characterized in Quebec and Montreal as their sport “pas de rivaux” (with no rivals).    For the first time in professional ice hockey history, it appears that no Canadian  team will even make the NHL playoffs.   And in hockey, almost half the teams make the playoffs !  As I gaze out my window on this blustery Winter day watching all the children shooting pucks on  our frozen ponds (actually, for all my readers in Birdsboro,   Tampa doesn’t have any frozen ponds),  I cannot help but well up in tears at how we Americans have hijacked the national sport of our Northern neighbors.   WHAT THE HECK !