Word: ponds
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This makes no sense. Hockey runs through the blood of every Canuck. The story of many a childhood in rural Canada runs the same--born with a stick in your hand, skating by age 3, winters on the frozen pond in your backyard or that of your best friend...
Maybe the popular reaction was a realization that the NHL simply isn't Canadian hockey anymore. The pond in the backyard is a good metaphor. Winter was already freezing, and it just took someone to run the garden hose a little for there...