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Sapper740 
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 Topic: Becoming American - The Hockey IndexPosted: February 19 2026 at 6:04am |
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I moved from Vancouver, B.C. to Texas in 2001 and since have enjoyed 7 Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympics are by far my favorite as some of the team sports I played were Hockey and Curling and Downhill skiing was my favorite hobby by far. One year after moving to the U.S. the 2002 Winter Olympics were held in Utah and I rooted hard for the Canadians, especially in Hockey.
Four more years pass and I'm still rooting for Canada but if not competing against 'us' I support the American team.
Time marches on and suddenly I'm more sanguine about which country wins and happy if either country beats the Europeans or Russkies. I think it was the Beijing Winter Olympics when to my surprise I seemed to be cheering more for America than Canada and boy did I feel guilty! Zut alors! Anyway, fast-forward to the 2026 Olympics and I'm unashamedly 100% behind the U.S. team, no guilt! I experienced the same transition from supporting the hapless Vancouver Canucks to being a Dallas Stars fan. It wasn't easy...I shared a pair of Canucks' season tickets with my dad and and have been a fan of theirs from before their NHL debut in 1970. I attended Stars games and proudly wore my Canuck jersey rooting for the Canucks. Yeah, but no more, 55 years of failure will do that to a fan. Go Stars! 'MURICA! |
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Posted: February 19 2026 at 8:26am |
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My Father was born in Canada and else was for the Canucks.
But he did like the Red Rocks as well. |
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Posted: February 19 2026 at 8:27am |
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Posted: February 19 2026 at 5:26pm |
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so when you say "stars" are you referring to the minnesotta north stars that moved south ? im OK with that but i understand your allegiance to you canadia roots more ,
so the US ladies were beating the canadians this afternoon 2-1 when my friends and i parted ways wonder how that turned out - it was for gold/silver i think , ive not watched a lot of the olympics this year , i cant say why , a little curling , a little hockey , a little ice skating and not much skiing , bejing was the first olympic games that my daughter coached at , she went on to coach all up to japan - because of covid she had to do it remotely [lots of reasons] but that first in china was my first time worrying about her safety - she is fearless , but i was very nervous as cwas my wife , we almostr went to the games in london when she was there but schedules were too complicated , same with rio , but my daughters family got to that one - i regret not doing it when she was doing it and ill never think of it again now that she is no longer coaching as an aside [note im editing this post] my family moved from scotland to canada in the 1800s - they moved south into ohio , then further south to arkansas - much later back north to iowa , s o , i kinda have some canadian roots , they were not deeply settled granted but it was a few years of residency
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Posted: February 20 2026 at 4:25am |
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Oh, I'll celebrate if the Canucks ever win the Stanley cup but there appears to be two things I'll never see in my lifetime: the Vancouver Canucks winning the Stanley cup and the Dallas Cowboys win the Super bowl again.
I remember the North Stars leaving the Twin cities back in the Nineties and it must have really hacked off their fans when the Dallas Stars won the Stanley cup six years later but remember this: some the best of the North Stars players ended going to San Jose when the NHL bosses allowed the Gund brothers to take them for the expansion San Jose Sharks which further contributed to the North Stars decline. Anyway, you guys got The Wild which is a good team and in their first ever game against the Dallas Stars whupped them 6-0 to the fans delight.
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Posted: February 20 2026 at 7:04am |
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Myself, my brother and our father attended the very first Canucks game in 1970. It was an exhibition game held at the old Agradome in Vancouver. They....lost...but we got the program signed by the then premier of BC, W.A.C.Bennet. We still have that program stashed away in mom's old cedar chest. That's a keepsake. I am still a Xanucks fan but it has been a hard road fought without winning Lord Stanley's Cup. Maybe one day, they got close a couple times. GO CANUCKS GO!
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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually
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Posted: February 20 2026 at 8:26pm |
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yup - wewere pi44ed off at them leaving , but thats happened in so many places im not surprised anymore - heck the bears are most likely moving too indiana this year ,
the US ladies did take the gold with a great goal on OT , canada got silver
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