Posted on 03/11/2025 9:18:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Throwing an elbow -- in your opponent's face or ribs -- is hardly rare in hockey, but the move is closely associated Gordie Howe, one of the sport's greatest ever players.
Howe, known to many as "Mr Hockey," was notorious for using his elbows to ward off opponents when battling for the puck.
"We're a country that will be diplomatic when we can -- but fight when we must: 'Elbows up!'" outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said to a cheering crowd of Liberal Party supporters in his farewell address in Ottawa on Sunday.
Rising to their feet, the crowd chanted "elbows up" in response.
The catchphrase had been gaining traction online and was propelled to a new level this weekend when Toronto-born comedian Mike Myers mouthed it during the closing credits of US show Saturday Night Live.
SNAP
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Spearing uses the blade of the stick. Butt-ending uses the butt of the stick. Elbowing is an elbow above the shoulders.
“Fight, Fight, Fight” versus “Elbows Up”
Should be a great match.
In hockey elbows up does not accomplish much against a nasty opponent.
They can still spear you in the back.
I live on the Canadian border. Have cousins in Ontario. Some uncles owned homes on Lake Simcoe, and Georgian Bay, so spent many summers there.
Canada’s century-long transition from a nation of white, conservative Scottish Presbyterians, British Anglicans (and traditional French Catholics in Quebec), to post-modern, globalist, non-western, multi-culti, neo-marxist fragmentation is nearly complete.
We all knew the Canadian Liberal Party were 21st century woke fascists, but how quickly Trudeau aligned with the UK and Brussels over Ukraine should indicate that Canada is a kept, controlled, UK-Brussels-Davos proving ground.
Canada has gone further in its implementation of WEF-style governance, migration and social atomization policies than any western nation.
Trump was forced into a political war with American leftists and globalists, only to discover their EU cohorts had a giant base and cultural/political biolab on America’s Northern border.
For Trump, I believe this issue goes much deeper than fentanyl or tariffs.
Adios Libtard Canuck !
It’s certainly better than joining with our neighbors to the south. I don’t want to be part of the aztec empire and tear people’s hearts out to make the sun go up and down. Yeah, a bunch of frenchman are fine.
I give Canadians a lot of slack. They’re proud. That’s fine. Their politicians, on the other hand, shouldn’t be playing into this. They have seen enough of Trump to know that he’s ‘negotiating’.
It’s like they said in “The Godfather.”
“This isn’t personal. It’s just business.”
Agreed.
They can put their elbows up all they wamt but so long as exports to the US generate 27% of the Canadian GDP and exports to Canada generate only an insignificant 1.2% of US GDP, they are screwed. We can crash their economy any time we want with little impact to our economy. They will fold like a cheap suit for all their bravado talk
If you aren’t Gordie Howe, you better watch your elbows.
Players learned not to retaliate against Gordie Howe for his well known high elbows, because he was analogous to the “Honey Badger”.
If you were going to retaliate against Howe’s high elbows, you better be prepared to drop your gloves tout de suite and defend yourself.
The players are by a large majority Canadians, but that’s not your point is it?
never heard of that expression but it’s not so smart getting into a fight with an opponent 10X your size
Nope 🇺🇸
Where they always do-here.
My Albertan born daughter-in-laws mother sure knows that when her husband needed a bypass in a hurry.
Elbows up to Fentanyl DEATHS IN AMERICA
FK Canada!
It would guarantee a minimum of two more Democrat Senators and a net gain of multiple Democrat House seats.
Not a good idea.
syrup would be cheaper
It would be a recipe for two new Democrat senators, 59 guaranteed new electoral votes for the Dems, and likely never a GOP president again.....which of course mean prosperity!....for the swamp.
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