Hockey a cruel irony.  | |  It must be totally ironic to anyone who gives two cents about hockey. Canada a nation that lives and dies for that sport. The nation that its young boys who go to sleep cradling their very first hockey stick. Dreams about the first time on a frozen pond make the night go by fast. This nation has not had the stanley cup to grace its nation since 1993 when the Montreal Canadians. Since 1993, lets look at a list of teams that have won the Stanley cup:
The Dallas Stars, The Tampa Bay Lightning, the Carolina Hurricanes, and now just one game away the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. What makes it even worse is that three of the four teams beat Canadian teams. People who live in the sunbelt of the US, could care less really about hockey. The reason why they go to the games is for the hitting, for the hitting, and did I mention for the hitting. Look Canada, we don't get the sport we just know how to win the sport. We take your best athletes from you, and use them against you. But it really wasn't that hard. Nine months out of the year our women wear bathing suits, and nine months out of the year your women wear coats. Also when your canadian hockey players come to America we don't tax them to death like you do. The hockey players on our teams actually get to keep their incomes, unlike canadian teams where the government takes every dime they earn. There might be a reason why Wayne Gretzey left Edmonton to come to Los Angeles. Actually I could list a whole bunch of canadians who have come to america but that would take until next year to write all of them down:) More American wins in sports that we don't care about. More stanley cups coming to America. More Canadian hockey players coming to AMerica. Later.
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| | | | | | 1.  vmks31 (7459) | 1 year ago |  I am Canadian and you are right Hockey is our game but not like the old days At one time 95percent of players where Canadian born but today we are having more and more European players so that the sport is becoming international .Weather wise you are away off I spent years in Fort Erie a Canadian town across from the Niagara River and Buffalo is certainly not a sunny good weather ....and storms in Chicago,Detriot,Atlanta are just as bad as in Canada and with the global warming things are sure changing I am not sure USA doesnot care about hockey ...and i think you are being very unfair and uninformed....Who won the world series in 1991 and 1992 and which Canadian team had a great run in the NBA and next year it will be a better year I love Canada and would never in a million years to move to the USA and because this site is family oriented i will say no more Before it was Politics, Mexicans(hope i have the right user name for this one ) now its Canadians nice to see you are so fair minded Good Luck you are a friend I think
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 gewcew23 (3228) | 1 year ago | Easy Canada. I know emotions run high when you are about to lose another Stanley Cup Championship. Look, we still love you, we have no problems with Canada it is just ironic that all those Canadian players, and yes Anaheim has a lot of Canadian players. So did Tampa Bay and Carolina. They come to the US, they live in our luxurious homes that we build for them. They play a sport which most Ameicans use as a tie over until NFL comes around again. Look, I have no problem with my neighbors to the north, and we should still be friends even if we hold the Stanley Cup for the year. | |
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| ORyansBelt2012 (1343) | 1 year ago |  Wasn't Carolina at one time the Nordiques? Or is that the Avalanche?
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| vmks31 (7459) | 1 year ago | Winnipeg Jets (1971-79) became Phoenix Coyotes (1979-2007)
Quebec Nordiques (1972-1979) became Colorade Avalanche (1979-2007)
I think Caroline was a expansion team | |
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| | | 2. brothertuck (993) | 1 year ago |  I do think you have gone too far in your analysis of the NHL and the Stanley cup in specific. The only reason that the US teams are winning, is that the NHl has become a business like all the other sports. Most of the players in the league are still Canadien, and with many Europeans in the mix with the US players.
It is not a US sport, just a Canadien sport played in US cities. In the international tournaments the Canadiens are still at the top. The Olympics, except for 2 quirks of luch, the Canadiens are always looked at with more fear and respect. In the under 17 ranks they are regularly at the top.
The US in it's sports are no longer the top, in baseball they are overwhelmed with Latin and now Japanese and other oriental players, who won the world tournament a couple of years ago, not the US. In basketball, the Olympics, we have been a disgrace to what we should be putting there, and many teams now have more then one foreigner on the team. And a Canadien team is now one of the top in the East.
When the US can regularly challange for international hockey gold then can we talk about the way Canada has dropped in their dominance of the game.
BTW, I am from the US, just outside of Philadelphia, and am a hockey fan from days back when there was 8 teams.
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| gewcew23 (3228) | 1 year ago | Did you not read my discussion? My discussion was on how the NHL. It was about how the teams of the SUNBELT of the US where people could care less about hockey have won the last 3 Stanley Cup. I am not saying Canada has lost its edge in hockey players. I am saying that their Canadian teams have lost their edge. Don't you think it is a little odd that a team like Tampa Bay, Carolina, or Anaheim in areas where no one plays hockey. They have won the last three Stanley Cups, and if you go back to Dallas. Texas isn't exactly known for its hockey fans. This has proven my point that hockey is considered football on ice. It ties over Americans until the NFL comes back. | |
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