Posted on 05/01/2017 11:17:45 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Prepare to feel a little bit better about the world
I’ve been to a lot of NHL games. When you’re born in Detroit, they slap your butt to get your lungs working, then they pretty much issue you a set of Red Wings tickets and a little jersey. That’s just how it works in Hockeytown. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, hockey fans are a different breed. There’s not a happier, nicer, more congenial crowd in professional sports.
I look at it from another perspective. Singing another country’s national anthem.
Ahh, that’s nice.
Thank you Canada!!
My husband, big Rangers fan, called me at work today to see this.
Thank you Canada...
I’ll bet they weren’t kneeling.
I was really confused as to why they all started singing the Canadian and US national anthems. I will say, the crowd in Edmonton sang the Star Spangled banner perfectly. If the game was in Anaheim, Oh Canada would not have been sung maybe by only a few travelers.
How many Americans could sing Canada’s National Anthem? Not one out of a thousand, I reckon.
Thank you Edmonton.
Where did this singing event at a hockey game take place at? Edmonton? If so, it’s understandable. Alberta is probably the most conservative, and pro-American, of all the provinces. As an Alaskan driving through Alberta many times, I know this to be true.
I think American hockey fans who attend games would be very apt at singing the Canadian National Anthem (probably with a few changes...LOL).
Thank you, Edmonton! Good game, eh? (picked it up in VT)
I’d almost take those odds on Americans knowing their own anthem.
How many American hockey fans would join in on “O, Canada” under the same circumstances?
Good point. Hockey fans would be a very special subset of Americans. Molson Canadian. For singing, it’s a force multiplier.
They still teach it in grade school.
Don’t they? “:^/
(That was before NAFTA.)
(Back then, we heard that the Canadians said "oot and aboot, eh?", when talking about being out and about, but I've heard others since then deny that assertion.)
Well when a Canadian goes oot and aboot, he or she does wear a tuque. Pronounced to rhyme with (excuse me) “puke”. I can vouch for that.
Those of us south of the line know that the proper term is “tossle cap.”
Most hockey season ticket holders could probably do it. We used to do it in my section at the old Chicago Stadium. Not perfectly, and not the mishmash English French version they used to sing, but most of the people around me knew the words.
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