The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition.

[Leaffan]

@mnemosyne

I don’t know, but hockey is what the Habs are beating the East in! OH YEAH!!!

(forced segue into thread? perhaps! sorry I’ve been away so much (I know Leaffan missed me!))

I did miss you, of course. I missed you bi-daily updates about your glorious Habs!

On another note, anyone watching “Jack” right now. Good story. I can’t wait to find out how it ends.

[Muffin]

@mnemosyne

“Ice hockey?” I think we got a poseur here, guys!

@Northern_Piper

That was my thought as well!

@RickJay

What the hell is “ice hockey”? A mixed drink?

Ice hockey as opposed to field hockey. In ice hockey you hit your opponent with your fists. In both lacrosse (which I played) and in field hockey (my cousin was on our national team), you hit your opponent with your stick – with lacrosse by cross checking when the poor bastard isn’t expecting it, and with field hockey by playing golf with the opposition’s shins.

[Muffin]

@Gorsnak

This Northern Ontario rink has been doing some serious curling in the Briar playoffs. Constantly taking the high risk/high reward shots and making them.

Northern Ontario won the Brier! Whoo-hoo!

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Muffin

Ice hockey as opposed to field hockey. In ice hockey you hit your opponent with your fists. In both lacrosse (which I played) and in field hockey (my cousin was on our national team), you hit your opponent with your stick – with lacrosse by cross checking when the poor bastard isn’t expecting it, and with field hockey by playing golf with the opposition’s shins.

Yeah, but here in Canada, when Canadians are talking about hockey, it’s just hockey, unless it’s field hockey, in which case we specify field hockey. So, which division of Al Quaeda do you belong to?

[Muffin]

@Cat_Whisperer

Yeah, but here in Canada, when Canadians are talking about hockey, it’s just hockey

Which is why true Canadians do not talk about lacrosse, let alone watch it.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Muffin

Which is why true Canadians do not talk about lacrosse, let alone watch it.

But…but…lacrosse is fun! They haven’t ruled all the fun out of it yet!

[Spoons]

@Cat_Whisperer

Yeah, but here in Canada, when Canadians are talking about hockey, it’s just hockey, unless it’s field hockey, in which case we specify field hockey.

Agreed. “Field hockey” is a bunch of girls in short skirts clobbering each other’s shins with funny-looking sticks. Not a bad thing, but not true hockey.

True hockey is guys on ice who drop the sticks, gloves, and helmets; and duke it out in a manner that would have them thrown out of any bar in the country. Oh, and they occasionally score goals on the other team.

Not sure why our European and Southern Hemisphere friends have problems differentiating between “field hockey” and just plain “hockey.” Never seen a girl in a short skirt playing for the Habs, for example.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Spoons

<snip> Never seen a girl in a short skirt playing for the Habs, for example.

Well, sometimes they play like girls…

[jools]

@Cat_Whisperer

Well, sometimes they play like girls…

Hey hey hey not this year they don’t…

And let’s not discuss last year!

[Dread_Pirate_Jimbo]

The Montréal Canadiens are in first place in the Eastern Conference and the Calgary Flames are last in the Western Conference. If I gave a rat’s ass about this year’s NHL, I wonder which of my two most favourite teams I’d be cheering for…

[Muffin]

@Spoons

Not sure why our European and Southern Hemisphere friends have problems differentiating between “field hockey” and just plain “hockey.”

And then there’s the lead story in my local newspaper: boot hockey.

Not that boot hockey is the only news around here:

“It was in the afternoon,” she recalled.
“We just let him out . . . and then we just heard all this barking, and then our dog was gone.
“We never found our dog,” she said.
“There are probably about five dogs from our neighbourhood that are all missing.”
The most-recent sighting of the wolves was Tuesday morning, the resident said. It was the closest the wolves had come to her home.
“They were huge,” she said. “We have miniature horses on the property; they’re bigger than our miniature horses.
“They’re about six feet, at least, long, and probably about 33, 34 inches tall, shoulder-wise.

In addition to the horses, the resident also has llamas on her property. ”

OMG, a LAMA DRAMA!

[EmilyG]

@Muffin

And then there’s the lead story in my local newspaper: boot hockey.

Not that boot hockey is the only news around here:

OMG, a LAMA DRAMA!

I found llamas in a Halifax phone book.
Cite

[Cat_Whisperer]

Boot hockey? Well, that’s just weird.

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

Did anyone ever play broomball? I have not-so-fond memories of a semi-flaccid, crappy soccer ball hitting my face at 20 MPH and wrapping itself half-way around my head like an alien face-hugger. All this at -20.

Getting hit with the ball caused far more pain than getting hit with the stick.

[Muffin]

Floor hockey with a large felt ringette ring – don’t know what the proper name for that sort of hockey was.

[Muffin]

Found it – it’s called floor hockey after all.

[hogarth]

@Cat_Whisperer

Boot hockey? Well, that’s just weird.

What do you wear when you play street hockey? Skates? Stilts? Stilettos?

[EmilyG]

There was an attempt at a crackdown on street hockey in a town near here. I don’t remember if it succeeded, though.

[Muffin]

All those poor kids sent off to the gulag for playing street hockey. A lost generation.

[Spoons]

@Muffin

Floor hockey with a large felt ringette ring – don’t know what the proper name for that sort of hockey was.

We just called it floor hockey. We didn’t use a felt ringette ring though. Not sure why, because our school certainly could afford such a thing. Instead, we played with a car’s air filter.