# Canadian Hockey Fans Rescue U.S. National Anthem **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 22, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311 "2014-11-22T02:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/1 "2014-11-22T02:41:31Z")
Eh. Unsure what forum to put this in, but it’s kinda fun. When the singer of the US national anthem’s microphone cut out, the **Leaffans** spontaneously [finished](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/20/maple-leafs-fans-anthem_n_6192184.html) the anthem. Good on ya. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/2 "2014-11-22T05:11:42Z")
I saw that this morning…good showing. I have to ask though; do all Canadians know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, or are we missing part of the story? I’d gladly fill in if I were at a Sharks game and there was a similar malfunction, but I don’t think I’d get too far: O Canada, Our proud and native land … something, something, so-omething … O Canada, We stand on guard for thee! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/3 "2014-11-22T05:27:25Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I saw that this morning…good showing. > > I have to ask though; do all Canadians know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, or are we missing part of the story? I’d gladly fill in if I were at a Sharks game and there was a similar malfunction, but I don’t think I’d get too far: > > O Canada, > Our proud and native land > … > something, something, so-omething > … > O Canada, > We stand on guard for thee! Our “home” and native land. Yeah, we know the words to The Star Spangled Banner. We drink your Kool-Aid daily. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. You’re the elephant next door. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/4 "2014-11-22T05:29:04Z")
Aw…thanks, Canadians! You guys are pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/5 "2014-11-22T05:55:55Z")
I’m still embarrassed by my USMC bretheren who couldn’t fly your flag correctly all those years ago - it was for a World Series game, IIRC. And I led my unit’s color guard for a few years, too. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/6 "2014-11-22T06:07:58Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I’m still embarrassed by my USMC bretheren who couldn’t fly your flag correctly all those years ago - it was for a World Series game, IIRC. And I led my unit’s color guard for a few years, too. That was amusing. Yeah, the flag got raised upside down. There was some media attention, but most Canadians got a chuckle out of it. It was an honest mistake, and seriously, we don’t hold our flag in the same kind of reverence that you folks do. I mean, we like our flag, but it’s just a damned flag. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/7 "2014-11-22T21:03:08Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I’d gladly fill in if I were at a Sharks game and there was a similar malfunction, but I don’t think I’d get too far: To be fair, Canadian sports fans probably hear the “Star Spangled Banner” much more often than American’s hear “Oh Canada.” As a baseball fan, I hear the latter only when my team plays Toronto, and that may only be at their home games. I do hear it more often following hockey, but I’d guess maybe twenty times a year. A Candain hockey fan would hear ours maybe sixty times a year and a Blue Jays fan at every game if they play it for a visiting team and half the games if they play it only when the Jays are visiting. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/8 "2014-11-22T21:36:30Z")
I think most hockey fans in the US have heard “O Canada” enough to make at least a decent attempt at crowd-singing it if a microphone went down at a game. I’m off to learn some lyrics, but I know the tune. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-hockey-fans-rescue-u-s-national-anthem/705311/9 "2014-11-24T13:32:06Z")
Doubt it would have happened in Montreal, though. Especially if Boston was in town.