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A country eagerly waits for more hockey gold

By George Johnson
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, February 3, 2006

Who will be the next Canadian Idol? Joe Thornton? Dany Heatley? Rick Nash? Eric Staal? Auditions start Feb. 15 at the Olympic Palasport in Torino, Italy, the town that gave the world Fiat. We await the results with anticipation. The rewards, it goes without saying, will be beyond their wildest imagination. But be warned. The judging is guaranteed to be even tougher than Simon Cowell on a fractious day. Nothing less than stopping the show cold will do. Ask Jarome Iginla how his world chang ...

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