First, let me say congratulations to Finland! Also to Slovakia…you played your hearts out, and no one can ask any more from you. That was a fabulous game! And now, we are a little less than three hours from the gold medal game. Will Canada win and increase their count? Or will the USA win and upset their gracious hosts to the north? I’m looking forward to another amazing game.

Au-Ja starts off with the MSI R5770-PM2D1G – AMD ATi Radeon HD 5770 revistited

If you don’t mind, I’ll turn that into a video card roundup:
bit-tech – ATI Radeon HD 5830 1GB
Technic3D – Asus EAH5870
iXBT Labs – ATI Radeon HD 5750/5770
Au-Ja – AMD ATi Radeon HD 5830
InsideHW – Radeon HD 5830

Hardware Secrets checks out the JVC Picsio GC-FM1 Camcorder

TrustedReviews points and shoots the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10

Bjorn3D chills out with the Noctua NH-D14

Phoronix goes inside the SilverStone Fortress FT02

TechRadar takes music on the road with the Altec Lansing inMotion Classic

TweakNews examines the Thermaltake TR2 RX 750W Modular Power Supply

Legit Reviews weighs in on the Toshiba HG2 43nm 256GB Solid State Drive

techPowerUp gets into the Soundgraph FingerVU 706

RBMods gets its hands on the Roccat Arvo Gaming Keyboard

DragonSteelMods tries on a pair of Mionix Keid 20 Gaming Headphones

And to finish us off, TestFreaks finds its way with the Motorola T805 Bluetooth GPS Receiver

I was beginning to think we’d be celebrating another milennium before my workers’ comp. hearing got scheduled, but much to my amazement the letter came today. It’s going to be near the end of March. Not bad, altogether, considering it will be exactly four months and 14 days since I got hurt. With any luck at all the mediator will see how silly it is that they denied my claim and I’ll be getting my knee fixed. I’m not holding my breath, but I am holding on to hope.

LanOC gets us going with the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110

RBMods checks out the Asus EAH5750 Videocard

High Tech Reviews goes inside the Aerocool BX-500 PGS Series B Case

TrustedReviews spends some time with the Wired2Fire Hellspawn Gaming PC

Hardware Secrets examines the OCZ ModXStream Pro 600 W Power Supply

PCSTATS gets its hands on the Gigabyte Ghost GM-M8000X Laser Gaming Mouse

FrostyTech gets chilly with the Zalman CNPS10X Flex Heatsink

TweakTown submits its video review of the RaidSonic Icy Box IB-318 and IB-250 USB 3.0 HDD Enclosures

Legit Reviews weighs in on the ASUS P7H57D-V EVO Motherboard

bit-tech takes on Star Trek Online

TechRadar talks about the Editors Keys Vocal Booth Pro

HotHardware shares its thoughts on the WD 1TB Caviar Green Hard Drive w/ Advanced Format

iGadget Life tries on a BlueChip BH08N Bluetooth Headset

Modders-Inc. gets into some G.Skill ECO DDR3-1600 (PC3 12800) Memory

And to close out this selection and get me watching the Finland/Slovakia game, TestFreaks hooks up with the UNITEK 2 Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card

It got a little tense there toward the end, but y’all held on for the win. So we’ll be seeing you Sunday, and may the best team win. Tonight, of course, will be Slovakia vs. Finland, and I’m having my usual dilemma about it. Neither team is my country, of course, but both teams contain players I watched grow up through the AHL and who either did play or do play for my NHL team. I’m leaning more toward Finland for various reasons, but I can’t say I’ll be disappointed no matter who walks away with the bronze.

Au-Ja starts us off with the MSI N220GT-MD1GZ – GeForce GT 220 noiseless

Hardware Secrets goes inside the Antec ISK300-150 Case

Legit Reviews spends some time with the QNAP TS-459 Pro Turbo NAS with Intel Atom D510

FrostyTech chills out with the XtremeGear HP-1216B Heatsink

TrustedReviews takes a look at the NEC MultiSync EA231WMi – 23in Monitor

TweakTown gets its hands on the GIGABYTE M8000 Xtreme Gaming Mouse

TechRadar hooks up with the Virgin 7.2Mbps Dongle

GamingHeaven takes on Napoleon: Total War (PC)

Pro-Clockers touches down on the Kingwin Dock Master 3.0 Hard Drive Dock

PureOverclock beats the heat with the XSPC 5870 Razor GPU Water Block

ThinkComputers weighs in on the Corsair Flash Padlock 2 8GB USB Flash Drive

TechwareLabs asks What OS, Windows 7 or Ubuntu? Why not use both!

Bona Fide Reviews gets the picture with the Polaroid Pogo Instant Mobile Printer

Top Review Shop checks out the ineo I-NA301Ue HD Enclosure

And to close out this selection, Motherboards.org examines the ASRock H55DE3 Motherboard

Wow…that was just…wow. If you were watching, you know what I mean. If you were not, you missed a sound thrashing of a team that deserves better than to be beaten that badly. Not that I won’t take the win, mind you, and I do wish them all the luck in the world on Saturday. Now to quick get this evening post done so I can watch Canada take on Slovakia!

ThinkComputers gets us started with the OCZ Alchemy Series Elixir Gaming Keyboard

Pro-Clockers goes inside the Coolermaster CM690 II Advance Mid Tower

TrustedReviews hooks up with the Thecus N4200 4-Bay NAS

Bjorn3D checks out the Kingwin Lazer 850w PSU

TweakTown examines the HIS Radeon HD 5570 1GB GDDR3 Video Card in CrossFire

Hardware Secrets chills out with the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme CPU Cooler

Technic3D gets its hands on the Revoltec W102 Mouse

PureOverclock beats the heat with the Prolimatech MK-13 VGA Cooler

TechwareLabs gets into the Sans Digital Towerraid TR5UT(-B)

bit-tech takes on Mount & Blade: Warband

TechRadar takes a look at the Hanns.G HH191DPB Monitor

Bona Fide Reviews spends some time with the HP Deskjet F4480 All-In-One

Hardware Canucks shares its thoughts on the SilverStone HDDBoost Hybrid SSD / HDD Device

Benchmark Reviews weighs in on the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Motherboard

Finally, TechReviewSource goes hands-on with the Wacom Bamboo CTH-460

First, let me say congratulations to Team Canada’s women’s hockey players! I didn’t get to see all of it, but what I saw looked like it was a pretty darn fine game, and y’all deserved the win. Now on to men’s hockey. While I know that Finland and Slovakia have exceptional teams (obviously, or they wouldn’t be there), my dream is to see another USA vs. Canada gold medal game. We’ll know after tonight, so good luck to all those participating!

LanOC kicks it off with the Silverstone Raven 2

TweakTown examines the HIS Radeon HD 5450 1GB GDDR3 Video Card

CCE Reviews hooks up with the Synology Disk Station DS210j

PureOverclock gets into the Enermax Modu87+ 500W

TweakNews chills out with the Spire TherMax II Cooler

Legit Reviews reports on Aliens Vs Predator PC Game DX11 Performance Benchmarks

TechRadar takes a look at the Denon DBP-2010

bit-tech presents Energy Efficient Hardware Investigated

techPowerUp checks out the Addonics Pocket eSATA/USB DigiDrive

XSReviews gets its hands on the Cyber Snipa Silencer

BCC Hardware spends some time with the Plextor PX-B940SA 12x Blu-ray Disc Writer

OverClock Intelligence Agency weighs in on the Patriot Torqx 64 GB SSD

TweakPC takes on BioShock 2 – Underwater-Shooter (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

Looks like I’m closing this one out with a motherboard party!
Legit Reviews – MSI P55-GD85 LGA 1156
Motherboards.org – GIGABYTE P55A-UD7
HardwareHeaven – Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
Benchmark Reviews – ASUS P7H55D-M EVO Clarksdale
TweakTown – ASUS P7P55D-E Pro (P55 Express)
Guru3D – ASUS Maximus III Extreme