I went to a fight the other night, and
all of a sudden, a hockey game broke
out!
Posted on 02/15/2025 9:31:20 PM PST by Morgana
My great-uncle fought in the 38th Battalion (Ottawa) C.E.F. in WWI and was killed in France two months before the Armistice. He's buried in a British Military Cemetery in France.
As well, over 6,300 Canadian soldiers serving in the First Canadian Army were killed fighting their way across the Sheldt region of Holland, clearing the area of Germans, and opening up crucial supply lines via the port of Antwerp. It was the Canadians that liberated the small village of Schoondijke, Holland where my father had been born in 1904. My father, his two brothers, and my grandparents came to the U.S. in 1913.
My Canadian uncle (Mother's brother) served in the U.S. Army overseas during WWII. He received his American citizenship at Fort Sam Houston, Texas while on his way to the west coast to ship out. My father's youngest brother also served overseas in the U.S. Army in WWII.
WWI....Stupid war. Screw the Brits for pulling us into it, they should have stayed out of it.
After my mother died in 1990, I went to Picton, Ontario where she was born to find some family history. Met cousins I didn't know I had, and found out from them that I was a second cousin to Tim Horton. I grew up in Rochester, NY, and had never heard of him until then. Of course he was deceased by then.
Canada and the USA have always had intense games through the years. As hockey got more popular in the Us and teams showed up in places like LA and San Jose, Phoenix, Tampa Bay and Dallas. It keeps gaining more fan base. The international competition in the Olympics and world tournaments have added to the rivalry. The US Women’s team against the Canadian Women’s team are alway hard fought games. The level of competitiveness went up when Russian players came into the NHL. Next year I hope they add a team Europe with Russian, Czech, German and French players. It’s the pride in country that each player can exhibit and entertainment for people who love the sport. It’s about the only thing I care about in the Winter Olympics. IMO
I went to a fight the other night, and
all of a sudden, a hockey game broke
out!
Over the years decades I have watched many Races (Indycar/NUTSCAR/IMSA ETC ) at venues up in Northern America (Watkins Glenn/Road America/Portland Raceway and others) located in the 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇺🇸 and they all sang or played both the Canadian and U.S. Anthems (in that order) and while I don't particularly like it I still had enough respect to listen to the Canadian Anthem.
So after hearing of this I'm going to say:
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Don’t get to twisted over it, there’s 💩🐦⬛ fans everywhere. Philadelphia fans once boo’ d Santa Claus, of course it was some drunk they hired but they did boo him. And this was in Montreal the French end of Canada. Also they were booing Trump. I bet he got a kick out of that. What I enjoyed was finding out the Tkachuk boys mighta voted for Trump. Keith their dad was a hard nosed player too. They take after their dad. They play on different NHL teams. Bet it’s a treat to sit together in the penalty box. Canada is kinda like the US. Here we got North against South. There they got an East against West thing. Right now Trumps gottem a little butt hurt. 😊
Now You've done it !!! Dragging the Masie-Dixie Line into fray. Next it'll be disrespecting General Robert E. Lee's Birthday. 🥳🎉
Stupid Canadians should have known better than to f%$k with Team USA and the Hanson Tkachuk brothers.
The Canadian National Anthem is pretty boring
I would find it difficult to sing for its lack of inspiration
The notes and words are equal to any song written by an 8th grader trying to promote some Beavis and butthead lullaby
Yeah, seems there’s always alliances to different things no matter the country. I grew up in NW Missouri near Jesse James home town. I’ve actually been in his house where he was killed. My great great grandfather was in the Texas state CSA infantry, joined in 1858. Truthfully it don’t mean nothing to me. When I was in high school the drinking age in Kansas was 18 Missouri’s was 21. So me and the Kansas boys did drink some beer together. Playing sports, the civil war wasn’t over yet but when it was beer thirty, it was “whose turn to buy. “
The booing anthems crap will fade. The rivalry will always be hot. Like the man said “ there just ain’t no forgettin.” 😁
That's all I need to know.
I’m sure the Canadian team is going to have a good time the next time they roll into Chicago.
Anywhere near Hannibal ? Was Col. Potter nearby ?
I don’t think they play any Four Nations Face-off games in Chicago this series ends in Boston I think. It’s a round robin tournament with each team playing the others. The championship round will be Thursday nite. Then the boys go back to their NHL team. You boo the Canadians or the Canuks chances are most of the players aren’t from Canada. Theres a good chance the Chicago Blackhawks have several Canadian players on their team. The only thing booing a Nation’s Anthem does is piss people off. The players have their own axes to grind at ice level. By the way team USA won the right to be in the Championship round by winning tonight. :)
Nope. Hannibal is on the Mississippi. I do my fishing in the Missouri.
How are they ever going to become our 51st state if they can’t even play hockey? Why else would we want them?
What the heck were the 1st 2 guys fighting about? They weren’t even close to each other. Dropped gloves and then skated up to each other.
It’s not just a hockey game that’s being played, apparently, if anyone actually believes this has any significance remotely connected to international politics.
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