Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were energetic striplings of five and six who set out for the corner rink every Saturday. "I don't know what to do on Saturday afternoons since I came here." Hozack says, as he recalls the old days spent huddled over heaters between line changes in the sub-zero Canadian winter...
...unlike Horton and Hozack, went on to play junior hockey with the Spruce Grove Mets. His team won the Canadian Junior Championship and received the Centennial Cup for its efforts. Spruce Grove beat a squad from Guelph. Ontario for the championship after a 60 game regular season and a 40 game playoff grind that stretched from September...
Politicizing sport, a dangerous business, is never more seductive than when one wanders in Montreal. In suburban Verdun, swarms of children trying to win a midget hockey tournament skate under a flag showing white fleur-de-lis on a field of blue. The flag symbolizes Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting...
Home Ice. The actors played a symbolic scene with intensity. The athletes talked about endurance. The director smoothed some rough spots. Scotty Bowman discussed "home ice advantage." Les Canadiens represent good hockey The Parti Québécois represents French Canadian political protest. The two meet only in Salutin's play. One can appreciate the intensity of hockey in Quebec, deeply and pleasurably, without having to see slapshots as metaphors...
Since the New York Rangers hockey team has scared almost nobody this season, their French Canadian goalie Gilles Gratton hit on a terror tactic of his own. He bought a $300 fiber-glass mask that looks like a snarling lion with flashing fangs. "Im a Leo," Gratton explained. "This mask becomes me." Mixing his menagerie metaphors, Gratton added, "That's no bull. I really feel stronger." Gratton's famous teammate Phil Esposito thinks the bright mask "is terrific. It makes Gratton happier, so he plays better." Indeed, the Rangers won a victory the very first time the goalie...