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Depends what you call a "Canadian" Canadian team.

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I drink with a fella who coached at an OHL team for a decade. You pick up a thing here or there.

I actually have several Hockey jerseys for my troubles.

It's not so much that I dislike the game. I just like this forum to be my escapology from the usual canada mundanity.

As mentioned up thread watching some mates play Hockey in a beer league can be quite the spectacle.

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You're going all Canadian on us! Next you'll be admitting you don't like hooters because it's demeaning to women!!!!

Anyhow, of all these hockey jerseys, don't suppose you've got a London Knights one you hate? I'm probably around your size...

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The service industry has paid numerous independent strong women through college. I'd argue it prepares them for the many facets of behaviour one can face in the world.

I have a San Jose Sharks jersey (sent to me by a client a couple of years ago).

And a Canucks jersey from a game I attended in Van back in December 2003.

Back in Blighty I attended several Guildford Flames-Bracknell Bees games over the years. That was real Hockey. I used to wear my Van jersey to look down on people much like I wear my Spurs top to TFC games.

People often forget (or simply don't know) Britain won the Iced Hockey gold medal in 36. I affectionately regard the "Boys of 36" as the most accomplished side ever to have graced the game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_ho...inter_Olympics

The first team to be World, Olympic and European Champions.

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That's a useful fact.

Already have my canucks jersey, part of my prep for moving the Canada. Just moved to the wrong city...

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Don't forget the Brighton Tigers, who famously beat the Soviet Union's national team in 1957.

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I had a brief love affair with the game after my trip to Van (first trip to Canada). That was when the Sedin's were relatively new and the Canucks had Naslund and Bertuzzi. At the time there was an incredibly fierce rivalry with Colorado Avalanche that resulted in Bertuzzi blind siding Steve Moore and getting a rather lengthy ban. Steve Moore had in a previous game assaulted Naslund and been warned he was a "Marked Man".

Some classic games were played between the two. One memorable game was 5-5.

I haven't seen two teams with such a loathing of each other since in professional sport since.

Then when I arrived on my Work Holiday Visa there was a season strike and I never really got back into it after that.

I've never really found people in Toronto to be particularly into Hockey and it is seldom discussed in the office like football is back in England. In fact with a Geordie and an Irishman in spitting distance of me Football is our most discussed sport.

I'll have to research that one. The Soviet Union were quite the team back then.

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I think they're just quiet about it because the Leafs are so shite. TO is a hockey town.

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When I was a child I wore the blue and white touque with the Maple Leaf logo. It seemed that we all wore either Toronto or Montreal colours. Maybe if you just moved over, or live in a mine, you aren't familiar with this classic....