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Subject: JT Author: Rick [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Sunday, February 28, 08:00:19pm I'll tell you something about hockey. You may find this interesting... It isn't a sport in Canada. There is nothing in Canada that is more important than hockey. Period. The game was invented here. The first game was played in Nova Scotia, although a town in Ontario makes the same claim. In 1972 when I was 12, Alan Eagleson, the president of the NHL Players Association made a deal to play a series of 8 games against the Russian national team. Those guys were all in the Red Army. 4 games were played in Canada and the next 4 in Russia. We thought we were going to kick their commie asses right back to Moscow. 30 seconds into the first game, Canada was winning 1-0. We lost that game 7-3. We were rather rudely introduced to two gentlemen named Kharmalov and Tretiak. The two best hockey players in the world... but we didn't know that when the series started. We'd never even heard of Kharmalov and a Canadian scout said the goalie Tretiak 'couldn't stop a beachball.' Of course what we didn't know was that he was scouted the morning after he got married. Anyway, the point is, during that September in 1972, Canada just stopped. I mean stopped. Every game in Russia took place while school was in and every day they brought tv's into the classrooms and we didn't have to do any school work. Practically every business with a storefront window, put a tv in the window so people on the street could stop and watch the games. The government even stopped. I can tell you exactly where I was on the afternoon of September 28, 1972. They brought the tv into my classroom and my best friend's class came in to watch the game on our tv. We were sitting on my desk in room 5, Winona Public School. And the place went insane when Paul Henderson scored with 34 seconds left to give us the series. As a nation, nothing is more important to Canada than hockey. Doesn't matter if you're right wing, left wing, cowboy, Indian... whatever. It doesn't matter. Hockey is the one thing we all have in common. Its a religion. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]