Ryan Kuwabara is the captain of Japan's national ice hockey team currently playing at the Pool A World Championships in Germany. Kuwabara, a Japanese-Canadian who was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens and now stars for Japan Ice Hockey League champion Kokudo, has agreed to keep a journal chronicling some of the team's experiences while in Germany.

NUREMBERG, Germany -- We just finished our game against Norway, which I will get to later, but first a little recap of the previous game we had against Austria that ended in a 3-2 loss for us.

Everyone on our team coming into that game knew we would have a good game.