228 thoughts on “O, Canada!”

1. What was ours written in war time? Sheesh it talks about how even though the British tried to beat us our flag still flew and we are free now cause we had to courage to fight. I mean how is that any different than Canada’s? Sheesh!

2. Hmmmm,
   I guess I found it so boring I didn’t notice….

3. A quote from my 6 yr old daughter who watched the game with me.
   “Now if all wars were as simple a hockey game, there would be no need for people to die. They would be too tired to shoot at people because of a little black puck.”

4. hooray for canada!!!!!
   best game ever, yay!! :o)

5. this game was way more anticipated but the US team were much more gracious losers than the US women’s team… they were quite sour after their match.
   i saw 2 cdns + 2 americans (the detroit teammates?) take pics together… there is some great spirit for ya 🙂

6. no. not “best game ever”.
   that’s still ’72. i’d still have preferred to play russia for the gold. but this is nice.
   (and dale, as if the author of the song was going to mention that you picked the fight. *cough*itsyournationalspecialty*cough*)

7. HI! I must be the only person *that likes hockey, atleast* in the werld that missed this.
   agh.

8. This is when I utter the same words that I utter every football season when my alma mater’s team gets it’s butt kicked…
   “Just wait till next year!!!” (Well, change it to next olympics…)
   Congrats hosers. You earned it, eh? :>

9. Well, at least we know Wil’s got cahones.
   Or is that spelled cajones? Spelling Police?

10. As an American in Canada — either way I’m proud. It was an awesome game! Here in Vancouver the honking and cheering will continue into the night 🙂
    Mandeville — from the mouths of babes comes the simplest and profoundest observations. I whole-heartedly agree with her.
    As for the banter of the anthems and the burning of the Whitehouse — The US anthem was orignally a popular British song of the time that the people set Key’s words to, so not too much creativity there. But it is a catchy tune otherwise it’d be boring too. And it was the British Navy that officially burned down the Whitehouse in DC. They had dinner there and then torched the place. Canadians would have made the fire into a BBQ and then ate. People have got to drop that one. It really is reaching when there wasn’t even a Canada then.

11. Parle vous francais, Wil?

12. I was cheering for the Canadians because (a) I thought they’d been screwed long enough and (b) they had more players from the Colorado Avalanche on their team. So it was good to see that our man, “Yo Joe!” Sakic, was voted best forward of the tournament. He had 2 goals and 2 assists today, including the game-winning goal in the 2nd period and the final goal of the game.
    Though it would have been good to have Patrick Roy in net for Canada, Martin Brodeur was up to the task. Actually, both he and Mike Richter were; they made some incredible saves. Roy himself couldn’t have done it better.
    I really felt that, up until Canada’s goal to go ahead 4-2, it could have gone either way. (And I was half expecting to see Team USA score in the 3rd and carry it 3-3 into overtime.) Even then, Team USA could have fought back. But Canada just wanted it more. And sometimes that’s all that matters.
    No matter who won, I knew it would be a hell of a game, one for the books, maybe the best hockey game ever played anywhere. And that looks to be true, too.
    Eric

13. Damn, Gigi. No need to be nasty about it. Ya won – the shit talking was about the game, not Anthems or who beat who in a war. This is about hockey. Besides, the War of 1812 was 190 years ago. Let it go…..

14. Gigi at least the USA does shit. Canada is just there.

15. Wil,
    We’ve even got you beat in the ‘long suffering’ department. There’s no way the apparent ineptitude of the kings can come close to Harold Ballard and his Make Be Leafs.
    John McGregor

16. Ash, you have a point, but our country’s history is a bit scant so far, so we have to stretch it a bit. The Whitehouse story will never die, facts be damned. 🙂
    What a great game though!!! Exciting, evenly matched, great play by both teams, and great sportsmanship at the end. Classy of the American men to be happy for Canada. (Boo on the American women for their poor showing). Although since the men’s teams play together throughout the NHL season, and played together recently at the all-star game, it’s not hard for them to be happy for one another.
    I was worried about Canada’s chances at the start of the tourney (yikes, we were bad!), but we got some momentum going as a team, and it carried us through to the gold. Go Canada!!!

17. Aw that was sooooooo sweet Unka Wil

18. well, best game during my lifetime!
    i am only 23, after all… :o)

19. canadians rock

20. Good game, eh?
    Do they have cheese in Canadia?

21. We WIN! (I can hear cars outside honking like mad still…and its two hours later.)

22. Ha Ha Ha! You’ve got egg on your face now Mr W!!! Hey, and are you wearing your glasses? Mrs W says we have to keep reminding you….

23. Our anthem was written at war time, Canada’s at peace time. I wasn’t starting a fight, I was stating a fact. Hell, I wasn’t even taking a stance on either fact! CALM DOWN.

24. Here are your additional lyrics to the Canuck Anthem…….
    O Canada! Where pines and maples grow,
    Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow,
    How dear to us thy broad domain,
    From East to Western Sea,
    Thou land of hope, for all who toil!
    Thou True North strong and free!
    God keep our land glorious and free!
    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee!
    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee!
    O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies,
    May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,
    To keep thee steadfast through the years,
    From East to Western Sea,
    Our own beloved native land!
    Our True North strong and free!
    God keep our land glorious and free!
    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee!
    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee!
    Ruler supreme, who hearest humble prayer,
    Hold our dominion whithin thy loving care;
    Help us to find, O God, in thee
    A lasting, rich reward,
    As waiting for the Better Day,
    We ever stand on guard.
    God keep our land glorious and free!
    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee!
    O Canada! We stand on guard for thee!

25. Cheese, yes, we have cheese in Canadia, but apparently no American cheese….. Everywhere I ask for it I am met by a blank look and the inevitable query, ‘you mean cheddar?’ Huh??

26. In 1988, I was going to school in Washington.
    As was my wont and inclination in those days of yore, I conned three of my closest friends into renting a car on the absolute spur of the moment and off we drove to the Olympics in Calgary.
    Highlights:
    1) Four large (all over six feet) guys asleep in a compact with a cooler between us and six feet of snow outside in sub-zero conditions.
    2) My new Canadian friend who I met in the boy’s pee pee room while drunk.
    3) Getting escorted off of the (closed) bobsled run by machine gun-toting security personnel.
    4) Hurling a flat tire down a long, snowy embankment and realizing too late that I really, really shouldn’t have done that.
    5) The smell of my own vomit.
    6) Tickets purchased from scalpers at the very last minute to the gold medal hockey game for $5 Canadian apiece.
    7) Our chant during the game? “Hole-sucker!” That’s all you need to know.
    Our group was called the Calgary Committee.
    And many tittie twisters were administered as a result of our own frontier-style of kangaroo court justice.
    What crime compelled us to pull the car abruptly to the side of the road and group tittie twist the offender?
    One word.
    Snatch.
    The forbidden word.
    Remind me to tell you that story sometime.
    It’s better than the Pooh story.
    By FAR.

27. you actually expected america to win?
    the only reason any of the nhl teams are any good is b/c of russians and canadians.
    but i do love those redwings… go Yzerman!
    thanx, i was wondering what the lyrics were to “Oh Canada!”

28. Um, what’s American cheese? It’s like asking what’s Dutch cheese, or French cheese. As far as I know (and my cheese knowledge may be faulty) kinds of cheeses are more specific like gouda, or brie, or cheddar or parmesan. So what is this kind of cheese you call “American”?

29. we call it “plastic”

30. Yes, Roughy, we do have cheese, — a frozen Gouda made a great puck for for a game of shinny when we farm kids couldn’t afford a real one ( and it went like a God Damn red bullet!). The scores were always in the double digits ’cause you only ever got in the way of it once!
    Canadian0812

31. I recommend the Downhill Freestyle Mogul Slalom Skeleton Halfpipe 50 k Four Man Combined Frozen Cheese Toss and Ice Fishing Derby for the next Winter Olympics.

32. What a great game. Both sides played exceptionally well. Go Canada! It would have been so cool if The Shat had presented the gold medals, but hey, you can’t have it all. Wil, you have my congratulations on your good sportsmanship.

33. I remember being in the states a few times last year and I kept seeing “American Cheese” on sandwich menus and stuff.. I finally decided to be brave and have some if this American Cheese and was shocked to find that it was in fact those disgusting processed cheese slices..! My boyfriend, who had been staying there for a year already, did a “..I could have told you that..” He said the same thing when I ordered a breakfast with “Canadian Bacon” and ended up with a thin slice of something that looked and tasted a lot like cheap ham…

34. Told you. it’s what we refer to as “plastic”.

35. Go canada, I knew they’d win. They’re real competition was Russia!
    Ha Ha!

36. great game for sure…we did it!

37. Hey, you made the screen resolution really big…it doesn’t fit in my browser window anymore…. 🙁

38. That’s right Wil, eat your crow while its still warm. We kicked your laclustre team right in the ass, got to love it. 🙂

39. A graceful admission of loss, I’m very, very impressed. 🙂
    To be fair, the Americans played a good game too. A good game only happens when there is good competition. Record it in the history books everyone – these past 6 months have been nothing but the rewriting of it all. 🙂

40. Ya know……
    Everytime I hear about Canada anything, I am reminded of 2 things:
    1. The song Blame Canada from the South Park Movie. It’s too damned catchy.
    2. My friend, Warren, who grew up in Canada and in the Southeren US. When he would speak it was an odd mixture of accents. Example: What ya’ll up to, eh? What’s this all about (pronounced a-but), ya’ll?
    I know this has nothing to do with hockey, but again just seeing the Canadian flag brought both to mind.

41. So Canada won, I take it? 🙂 Didn’t they beat USA Women’s Hockey for the gold as well? Well, congrats to our neighbors of the North. Would have loved to seen the game, but I had to work (damn retail). Actually, even if I didn’t have to work, I probably still wouldn’t have watched it because I’ve kinda strayed from the Olympics after Michelle Kwan took the bronze. I know I know, she deserved it because Sara Hughes skated so much better (which is completely true…she kicked major ass on her long program) but I so wanted Michelle to win (I’ve been such a fan of hers since she was deemed an alternate for the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer). Damn Tara Lipinski and stealing her gold in Nagano. Why must these 16 year old upstarts must get in the way of Michelle Kwan?! But, I’m over it…..really I am 🙂

42. We RULE! mwahahahaha!!!! 🙂

43. To put things in perspective…
    When Television’s Wil Wheaton was snacking on cucumber sammiches and New Coke with Dan Quayle and family, Spudnuts was lying face down in a snowberm, his cheek frozen to the curb in a pool of his own sick.
    Now…
    You tell me who was sucking the sweet ju-jee out of the mudbug skull of life and who was just phoning it in.

44. what can i say? we did invent the sport! both women and men got the gold and proved it for us. You’re a good sport Wil.

45. Chuck E. Cheezus H. Keerist.
    This thread is lousy with Canadians.
    You can’t swing a dead Irishman or flamboyantly gay cat in here without hitting a Spork-eating puck-monkey.

46. Thanks, Wil. The US played a great game, too.
    Thanks for being such a good sportsman about it! 🙂

47. Dale and Gigi – please just shut up! You are both annoying and are making your respective countries look bad. There is no need for the Canada/USA bashing and “my_country_is_better_than_yours” BS. Both countries are great, and both of you are acting LAME.

48. Dale and Gigi – please just shut up! You are both annoying and are making your respective countries look bad. There is no need for the Canada/USA bashing and “my_country_is_better_than_yours” BS. Both countries are great, and both of you are acting LAME.

49. AWWWWWWWaaaaa— :(( And this is why I don’t like to go on the road at the last minute!!
    I missed the whole thing Me a huge Hockey Fan!
    If I had known that I wouldn’t have made it home in time I would have set the VCR– well what’a done is done. my sister told me all about it.
    -Way to Go Canada!

50. Hehehehehehe……
    I love hockey…. and the Canadians are the best at it….
    But it was close and let’s have another one, eh?
    Now, if I can only learn curling….

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