Another reason why hockey is Canada's game....

[JR]

Stephen Harper, our PM, is a hockey historian. Not only can he read, he can write.

He's written a good piece in today's Star about amateur hockey in Toronto in the early 20th century. And he's writing a book about the early history of the sport.

Too bad his politics suck.


http://www.thestar.com/News/article/164678

And a professional was not merely someone who accepted pay for play in some form. It included anyone who ever played with or against a professional. So serious was the charge of being professional that the accused was required to prove his innocence. To be found to be guilty of professionalism meant exclusion from virtually all sporting fraternities for life

 

[buckweaver]

Interesting passage there.

Reminds me of how players were ostracized (and even suspended, or blacklisted) for playing outlaw games against a team with an ex-Black Sox player throughout the 1920s. Dickey Kerr, one of the clean Sox, was one of them.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

That almost makes up for the cowboy photo over on t'other thread.

 

[Idaho]

Because no one else wants it?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

If our chief of state tried to write a book about his favorite sport ...

Wait. Our chief of state. Writing a book. Ri-i-i-i-i-ight.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[JR]

That almost makes up for the cowboy photo over on t'other thread.

You mean this?

OK, if he were an American, which State would elect him? :)

 

[BigDog]

Stephen Harper, our PM, is a hockey historian. Not only can he read, he can write.

Well, he's ahead of Jacques Demers on two counts. But phonics is not Canada's game.

 

[Double J]

That almost makes up for the cowboy photo over on t'other thread.

You mean this?

OK, if he were an American, which State would elect him? :)

San Francisco would elect him as its mayor. If he had ass-less chaps to match the vest, he'd be promoted to queen in a heartbeat.

Stephen Harper, our PM, is a hockey historian. Not only can he read, he can write.

Well, he's ahead of Jacques Demers on two counts. But phonics is not Canada's game.

Neither is troll-feeding, at least not this weekend. Merry Christmas, ya mutt. ;)

 

[JR]

And he's also got this in his closet. (Well, he wore it at an APEC Summit earlier this year)

 

[sportschick]

That almost makes up for the cowboy photo over on t'other thread.

You mean this?

OK, if he were an American, which State would elect him? :)

Montana, of course :D

 

[suburbia]

If hockey is Canada's sport, why....

*Has no Canadian team won the Stanley Cup since 1993?
*Have teams from Florida, Texas, and North Carolina won the Stanley Cup in the last 10 years alone?
*Have NHL franchises in Quebec City and Winnipeg left Canada for Denver and (egads!) Phoenix?

 

[slappy4428]

If hockey is Canada's sport, why....

*Has no Canadian team won the Stanley Cup since 1993?
*Have teams from Florida, Texas, and North Carolina won the Stanley Cup in the last 10 years alone?
*Have NHL franchises in Quebec City and Winnipeg left Canada for Denver and (egads!) Phoenix?

A weak Canadian dollar as well as cities such as Raleigh, Denver and Phoenix willing to subsidize new arenas to draw in big dollars to pay for talent.
Hopefully, a strong Canadian dollar will pay other dividends -- as it almost did in June with Edmonton.

 

[Double J]

If hockey is Canada's sport, why....

*Has no Canadian team won the Stanley Cup since 1993?
*Have teams from Florida, Texas, and North Carolina won the Stanley Cup in the last 10 years alone?
*Have NHL franchises in Quebec City and Winnipeg left Canada for Denver and (egads!) Phoenix?

A weak Canadian dollar as well as cities such as Raleigh, Denver and Phoenix willing to subsidize new arenas to draw in big dollars to pay for talent.
Hopefully, a strong Canadian dollar will pay other dividends -- as it almost did in June with Edmonton.

Don't forget the fact that the bastards who control the NHL are all based in the U.S.

 

[spaceman]

my most fervent wish for hte NHL is to get rid of that putz Bettman, and put a Real Canajan back in charge of the league.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

That almost makes up for the cowboy photo over on t'other thread.

You mean this?

OK, if he were an American, which State would elect him? :)

Fake cowboys are very big down here.

 

[slappy4428]

If hockey is Canada's sport, why....

*Has no Canadian team won the Stanley Cup since 1993?
*Have teams from Florida, Texas, and North Carolina won the Stanley Cup in the last 10 years alone?
*Have NHL franchises in Quebec City and Winnipeg left Canada for Denver and (egads!) Phoenix?

A weak Canadian dollar as well as cities such as Raleigh, Denver and Phoenix willing to subsidize new arenas to draw in big dollars to pay for talent.
Hopefully, a strong Canadian dollar will pay other dividends -- as it almost did in June with Edmonton.

Don't forget the fact that the bastards who control the NHL are all based in the U.S.

That's rat-bastards to you, pal

 

[JR]

If hockey is Canada's sport, why....

*Has no Canadian team won the Stanley Cup since 1993?
*Have teams from Florida, Texas, and North Carolina won the Stanley Cup in the last 10 years alone?
*Have NHL franchises in Quebec City and Winnipeg left Canada for Denver and (egads!) Phoenix?

You're confusing the NHL with hockey. The former has nothing to do with the culture of hockey.

Hockey didn't disappear when the NHL locked out the players.

We ended up going to junior games that season and have had season tickets for the past two years.

Every town over 500 people in this country has a rink.

Look at the Conn Smythe Trophy winners over the past forty years: practically every one has been a Canadian.

That's what I mean when I say it's our game.

 

[User 6659]

The reason non-Canadian hockey teams win the Stanley Cup has nothing to do with who the game belongs to. Players on teams all over the league are from Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland, and a bunch of other non-U.S. places. Just because teams in Florida, N.C. and Texas are willing to pony up the dough to bring in quality players doesn't mean the Canadians can't play. JR is right

 

[Double J]

Every town over 500 people in this country has a rink.

Some towns with rinks aren't even that big. My little burg has about 200 people and a newly renovated arena/community centre. Matter of fact, the township in which I live has about 5,000 people and rinks in four different sites.

 

[Claws for Concern]

The thread title makes me wish I was living in Canada. I love hockey and always will and that's a native Californian talking ...