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A blogging lesson from the Winter Olympics, and how a few throwaway sentences in a Sunday morning post turned into a major traffic generator.

Sidney Crosby lifted Canada to Olympic gold, but what Nashville's hockey fans can take to heart is the incredible job that their top two defenseman, Shea Weber and Ryan Suter, did over the last two weeks.

The Olympic mens hockey tournament could not have come down to a better conclusion for North American hockey fans. Team USA has shown surprising consistency and ridden the phenomenal goaltending of Ryan Miller into the Gold Medal Game, while Team Canada has given us glimpses of greatness but remains a bit of a question mark; can all that talent gel into a cohesive team?

Sunday afternoon we'll see the Nashville Predators brightest young stars, Ryan Suter and Shea Weber, battle for the Olympic gold medal as the USA and Canada advanced to final game of the 2010 Olympic mens hockey bracket.

Shea Weber and Ryan Suter continue to represent Nashville well in Olympic competition.

We're now down to eight teams left in the 2010 Olympic Men's Hockey Tournament, and the intensity will get ramped up today with a number of high-profile elimination games.

It took 10 minutes of overtime plus a shootout, but in the end Switzerland advanced to the Olympic quarterfinal, and a match tomorrow with Team USA by defeating Belarus 3-2.

The Olympic hockey tournament gets rolling again today with the Playoff Qualified round, which will determine which four teams will advance to the Quarterfinals against the top four teams which are enjoying an extra day's rest right now.

As the euphoria over Team USA's victory last night starts to wear off, eyes now turn to the road ahead. Now that they've earned the #1 seed for the single-elimination games that begin tomorrow, how does the 2010 Men's Olympic hockey bracket shape up for the Americans?

As the round-robin portion of the Olympic mens hockey tournament draws to a close with a game later tonight between Finland and Sweden, the elimination bracket that leads to the gold medal is coming into focus.