COOK ON CARLAW: So the girls just want to party, eh?

What do you call a bunch of women drinking alcohol with plenty of ice? You call them Canada's Olympic gold medal hockey team.

Yes, the ruckus caused by the women's hockey team celebrating on the ice has been wild.

I mean the audacity of young women swilling beer and champagne after winning gold.

By the way, American bankers also celebrated by swilling beer and champagne after they struck gold with a bailout from the American government, but we didn't get to see that show of debauchery.

I have to admit women celebrating by drinking and smoking cigars has been a lifelong dream of mine, but this is not what this column is about. This column is about why we don't like seeing women drinking and smoking cigars in public.

First off, most women who do that kind of stuff in public are called celebrities. Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie are just three who come to mind, which means it's funny for celebrity woman who have nothing to celebrate to drink and smoke cigars in public but it's not OK if you've just played the game of your life and you've won gold for your country.

What's next? Ah, yes, the role model card. Well, first off you're not suppose to get your role models from television. Your role model should be someone you know not some person you see play hockey every four years.

The Canadian woman's hockey team has 20 people who are great role models but not to a girl sitting at home in New Brunswick.

Do I think the woman's hockey team should have partied somewhere else? Yes, I do. I think they should have gone somewhere far more comfortable. Oh, by the way, I've just finished watching the men's hockey team win gold and this time the cameras were taken away long before the athletes were able to get the beer and champagne flowing, which makes sense.

So the Olympics are over and for the first time in eight years, Canada has a gold medal in both men's and women's Olympic hockey. Plus, we now have a gold medal in "after-game partying," which normally would go to those snowboarders from California but this year went to the Canadian woman's gold medal-winning hockey team. Congratulations. We now have 14 gold medals.

Party on.