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To: alternatives?
“It’s about the mental psyche of community and society” seems overblown but if I wrote hockey books I would be trying to hype it as well.

It is not terribly overblown for Canadians, where hockey is as big as the NFL here, if not bigger (despite the fact that Canadian teams rarely win the Stanley Cup these days).

I know when the Whalers moved from Hartford to North Carolina it DID damage the local "mental psyche" of the community. The Bruins used to draw more interest that the Patriots in Boston. The Red Wings run was a great thing for the city of Detroit. On the other hand, the Phoenix Coyotes could disappear and few would notice except some Canadian snowbirds.
5 posted on 01/03/2021 8:55:07 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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About the only ‘Canadian snowbirds’ this Christmas season were POLITICIANS. The same pols who told the peasant class, to stay at home and don’t visit with ANYONE other than those you live with. YET so many of these pols vacationed in WARM CLIMES over the holidays. Two week isolation on traveling to a foreign destination? SURE, I believe you hypocrites! A POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES! (Or maybe a BAD case of CCP-Coronavirus on their houses!)


6 posted on 01/03/2021 9:11:44 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see... )
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To: Dr. Sivana

“It is not terribly overblown for Canadians, where hockey is as big as the NFL here, if not bigger.”

That was then for the NFL, but I don’t think it is true now and don’t think it is coming back. A lot a people have gotten a taste that there is something better. Be interesting to see what happens to hockey, particularly Canada.

In the UK, at a soccer match, some fans booed the BLM protest and the team identified them and either took their seats away or required attending diversity training. If I lived in the UK, I would walk away from professional soccer. Be interesting to see what happens there as well.


9 posted on 01/03/2021 9:27:40 AM PST by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Dr. Sivana
It is not terribly overblown for Canadians, where hockey is as big as the NFL here,

That's starting to change, in the new "Multicultural" Canada, where more and more hockey is dismissed as the sport of "White Rednecks", as opposed to more inclusive basketball, especially with the recent success of the Raptors.

11 posted on 01/03/2021 9:30:30 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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