The Americans always have strong teams and you always bring your best game to us.
For a hundred years or more hockey has been "our game". While we weren't watching the rest of the world (the cold world, anyway) started playing and improving and all of a sudden thirty years ago guys with names like Mogilny, Federov, Salming, Hasek and Koivu started playing here and dominating. Oh yeah, guys like Brian Leech, too. It was a shock. When I was a kid every NHL player was Canadian except two Americans and they were journeymen. Now I doubt that Canadians comprise more than 50% of the league, probably less. Hockey is engrained in our national psyche in a way you can't imagine; like baseball might have been in the US up to the 1950s. So when we win internationally it's a big deal around here. And to beat our close friends and natural rivals it's all the sweeter. :-) Cheers, frank On 22 February, 2014 2:31:56 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >Well, that's about as surprising as the Dutch wins in speed skating. ><G> >Dan Matyola >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > >> On 21/02/2014, knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Men's. >>> >>> Women's. >>> >>> Canada vs. USA. >>> >>> 'Nuff said... “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
