Why is it that when Canadians watch ice hockey they don't sing songs and just go, Lets go Canada. It doesn't sound very supportive, don't they care about their team?

What, exactly, is "their" team?

Because I am sad, I recently looked up he team rosters for the Olympics. The norm appears to be 23 players. The US squad had only 2 players that didn't play for US teams. So did the Canadian squad. Sweden managed slightly better, with a whopping four that don't play in the NHL. The other European teams were a bit more national, but not all that much.

I'm not sure if I heard this correctly on the news last night but did they shut the liquor stores in Vancouver at 7pm yesterday?

Don't you have to be Canadian to play for Canada?

That's shocking. Don't they normally close at 5 PM?

Well, yes. Define "Canadian", though.

That's sort like the question of why didn't Ryan Giggs play for England. We could have done with a left sided player for the last 15 years.

The way they've been spouting off for the last few months about hockey I'm kind of happy they lost. Everyone seemed to think they deserve to win because it's "Canada's game." Maybe if it was a team and not a collection of pro-athletes that will go back to playing against each other for ridiculous salaries in a couple of weeks they'd do better.

We've had one. It's called a Labour government. Triffic at scoring goals. Own goals, admittedly.

I realise this dates me, but as longtime admirer of the former party leader Hugh Gaitskell, I take that sort of flippant humour in a very dim light.

He died nearly 50 years ago. To compare him to the recent bunch is pushing things a tad.

"Just call me Hugh." I think not.

Why does it matter where they choose to work?

Is this thread about Iced Hockey or about Iced Hughie?

Only 6 out of 30 teams in the NHL are Canadian so it's not that suprising most play for US teams?

He has never been eligible to play for the England national team.

I believe so. However, I believe he was referring to where they play their club games, which has been answered by jimf.