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As you may have already guessed, I love Hockey. I love the strength, agility and speed required to play the game and play it well. I love the team-work and the comradeship and rivalries. Horizontal stripes. Terrible innuendos ("He really knows how to handle a stick"). Goaltender superstitions. Red posts. Blue lines. The goal line. And pushing people out of the crease who don't belong there.
I like the stories behind the game of people coming together to excel. Higher. Faster. Stronger.
(I remember a few years ago Roberto Luongo teasing Willie Mitchell that he, a goaltender, had more assists than Willie, a defenceman, did.)
I love sports and I love hockey and I love the Olympics.
And today we have another amazing game to watch. Canada-USA for the Men's Olympic Gold.
The women played on Thursday (also Canada-USA) and it was a fantastic game. Szabados, our goaltender, was phenomenal. Her glove hand? - absolutely gorgeous. I'm so impressed! And she got a shutout against the States in the Gold Medal Game! That is so hard. Amazing game.
And now it's the Men's turn. The game doesn't start for just over three hours. I'm heading out to a bar to watch it. And I'm going to wear my Luongo jersey, because it may not be team Canada, but it's still Luongo and he's my boy. I'm very excited!
One of the things that I love about Hockey is that it's such a multicultural game. I think the only other major league sport which is similar is football (the real kind of football - ie not American or Canadian). I love that on any given team in the NHL there will be native speakers of probably at least four different languages. I love that the Canucks have seven Olympians on the team and all but two of them are from different countries - and those two are the twins, so that totally doesn't count.
(And speaking of, it makes me really happy to be a Canucks fan since we had one player on each of the top four teams! We've still got Luongo for Canada and Kesler for the States. So go us!)
The Canucks who went to the Olympics are:
Roberto Luongo - Goaltender - Canada
Ryan Kesler - Forward - USA
Henrik Sedin - Forward - Sweden
Daniel Sedin - Forward - Sweden
Pavol Demitra - Forward - Slovakia
Christian Ehrhoff - Defence - Germany
Sami Salo - Defence - Finland
Canucks players speak (just based on what I know, some of them might have some other languages too): English, French (Canadian), Italian, Swedish, German, Slovak, Finnish, and Danish. Somehow we don't have any Russians, Belorussians or Czech.
The CBC is now doing commentary for some of the games in Punjabi.
In ten or fifteen years we should start seeing Indian-Canadians in the NHL. I can't wait. It's already such a multicultural sport I think it'll be great when it becomes a multicoloured sport too!
I like the stories behind the game of people coming together to excel. Higher. Faster. Stronger.
(I remember a few years ago Roberto Luongo teasing Willie Mitchell that he, a goaltender, had more assists than Willie, a defenceman, did.)
I love sports and I love hockey and I love the Olympics.
And today we have another amazing game to watch. Canada-USA for the Men's Olympic Gold.
The women played on Thursday (also Canada-USA) and it was a fantastic game. Szabados, our goaltender, was phenomenal. Her glove hand? - absolutely gorgeous. I'm so impressed! And she got a shutout against the States in the Gold Medal Game! That is so hard. Amazing game.
And now it's the Men's turn. The game doesn't start for just over three hours. I'm heading out to a bar to watch it. And I'm going to wear my Luongo jersey, because it may not be team Canada, but it's still Luongo and he's my boy. I'm very excited!
One of the things that I love about Hockey is that it's such a multicultural game. I think the only other major league sport which is similar is football (the real kind of football - ie not American or Canadian). I love that on any given team in the NHL there will be native speakers of probably at least four different languages. I love that the Canucks have seven Olympians on the team and all but two of them are from different countries - and those two are the twins, so that totally doesn't count.
(And speaking of, it makes me really happy to be a Canucks fan since we had one player on each of the top four teams! We've still got Luongo for Canada and Kesler for the States. So go us!)
The Canucks who went to the Olympics are:
Roberto Luongo - Goaltender - Canada
Ryan Kesler - Forward - USA
Henrik Sedin - Forward - Sweden
Daniel Sedin - Forward - Sweden
Pavol Demitra - Forward - Slovakia
Christian Ehrhoff - Defence - Germany
Sami Salo - Defence - Finland
Canucks players speak (just based on what I know, some of them might have some other languages too): English, French (Canadian), Italian, Swedish, German, Slovak, Finnish, and Danish. Somehow we don't have any Russians, Belorussians or Czech.
The CBC is now doing commentary for some of the games in Punjabi.
In ten or fifteen years we should start seeing Indian-Canadians in the NHL. I can't wait. It's already such a multicultural sport I think it'll be great when it becomes a multicoloured sport too!
