What can I say? Canada earned it.
Team USA’s third period effort looked like the LA Kings, circa 1986.
Canada wanted it more badly, and they played much harder.
Seriously, they played some of the best hockey I have ever seen.
Congratulations, oh Great White North Ones!
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Francais:
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Hi everyone! I just wanted to share my experience in the celebration that took place in the streets of Toronto last night. It was the most surreal thing I’ve ever seen. Yonge Street was closed off and full with a sea of people, 80% of them carrying canadian flags. Many were painted up.
A ton of people were waving their flags attached to hockey sticks, there were a bunch of street hockey games going on, hours and hours of cheering and honking. I felt so proud to be Canadian. There were even some people dressed up in full costumes! I saw Batman, Wolverine and a few people wearing nothing but a flag wrapped around them. While walking through the sea of people going up and down the streets, everyone was just passing each other giving highfives. There was such incredible positive energy in the air, which was a nice change from the usual stressed out, suspicous negativity that sometimes dominates big cities like Toronto.
We were in a pub while the mayhem was just getting started and there was a steady stream of people stopping in off the street, climbing up on chairs and the bar, waving our flag and getting the whole place screaming even louder.
One of the funniest moments of the night is when we walked by this small group of Russians yelling “We’re number three! We’re number three!” in beatifully thick accents. 🙂
Cheers,
-Karl
Hey Wil,
I am sure Wayne Gretzky, Pat Quinn, Jacques Martin, and Ken Hitchcock, Kevin Lowe etc would send you their sincerest gratitude;)As do I.
Now its time for you to cheer for another winning hockey team, the Leafs, cos Lord knows your Kings aren’t gonna get anywhere with Potvin in net, trust me I should know;)
Thanks again
J
olafandy jon said:
>> We won the Silver medal. There is no shame in that.
There is if you’re an American.
Silver medals are for unscrupulous, smelly Frenchies.
And the Bel-jish.
From Bellgeeum.
There are only three metals which are of value to the people of Les Etats-Unis:
1) Platinum.
Preferably in the form of a big, motherfucking belt buckle in the shape of Texas. Or that nudie mudflap chick.
2) Gold.
Preferably in the form of a big, motherfucking toof. Or teefs. Or as a hand-carved, ornate codpiece decorated with eagles and snakes which says: “my huge American dick resides within, fucker!”
Finally…
3) Lead.
Preferably in the form of ammunition or full-body smocks which can be used to shield our vital organs from the debilitating gamma rays of our decaying atomic waste heaps.
Steve McQueen, Magnificent Seven: “We deal in lead, mister.”
That’s what Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt, SFPD says so you can take that to your Canadian bank in the forest and cash it, Jacques.
Trivia:
What episode of ST:TNG was shot on location in Canada?
That would be the episode where the Romulans travel back in time to sell magic eye paintings at the Edmonton Mall.
It’s a seagull.
No, it’s a whale.
Do I need to hold my hand over one eye or something?
Is there an Orange Julius in this place?
Some nausicaans opened a Chick-fil-A. I think they have Snapple.
Cool. That’s totally a whale though.
what a game. toronto was a mess afterwards – people in the streets everywhere – honking, screaming – fantastic! about time we had something to cheer “aboot”.
~spoonie
It was nice to see Wil suck it up, but it was a great game. I love that save where Richter made alike a pretzel and caught hte puck on the back of his left skate to keep it out. That was my favorite.
BTW, the borg Queen is a canadian 🙂
– Law
It’s so nice to see someone who doesn’t curl up in the corner and revert to Canada bashing just because WE BEAT YOUR ASS!!!! I’m so sick of stupid Canada bashers and your site made me all happy again. Yay!!!!
i’d say something about all the Canadians rubbing it in our (American’s) faces, but I’d be doing the same thing if it was the other way around. Plus the Canadians played damn good, so good job =P
Nice to see our flag up there, Wil – thanks/merci for being a great sport! It was a beautifully played game all ’round – I think we just wanted it that touch more (only waited 50 years, eh?). But man Richter is one tough goalie – he put up quite the fight. So hurrah all round for the players, who make it all worth watching. And hey, I live in downtown Toronto and I really loved hearing all the cheering outside my windows – it capped off a great afternoon. I don’t think it was that noisy since the Jays won the World Series.
The Canadian team should be disqualified for using whammy hex voodoo magic.
A two-ney embedded in center ice, indeed . . .
No doot aboot it:
http://campnormal.tripod.com/molson-canadian-no-doot-aboot-it.mov
You people….
It’s all about the toque.
I’m proud to be an American and all that yadda-yadda blahblahblah. No really, I am. But there is no denying that Canada’s national anthem kicks our national anthem’s butt. What a stirring tune! And no bloody, martial language. If I’m ever famous enough that I’m asked to sing the national anthem at a ballgame, I’m gonna put in a bid for the Canadian one. No kiddin’.
First of all, I want to congratulate our Canadian friends( and they ARE our friends) on their hard-fought victory: You deserved it or you wouldn’t have got it. Well done!
Second, I would like to point out that the war of 1812 was a war of agression fought by the British when we wouldn’t let them conscript our sailors into the British Navy. It was NOT a war between the United States and Canada. It was British soldiers who burned down the first White House in Washington, DC, which incident helped fuel the American anger that led to among other things, both the victory at New Orleans and the first time American regulars (under Winfield Scott) defeated British regulars on the field of battle. This occasion is why the cadets at West Point (and eventually the Confederate Army) wore gray- Scott’s troops (the first to undergo what we would think of a basic training ) wore gray because there wasn’t time to ship them the American army standard blue uniforms.
I would also like to clear the confusion about the American anthem- it was written as a poem by Francis Scott Key, when he was held prisoner overnight by the British while they attempted to take Fort McHenry. The lines about “rockets red glare” and “gave proof throught the night” refer to the only way Scott could tell if the American flag was still flying, that is, if the fort was still in American hands… It’s not a song about war, it’s a song about the survival of the American nation, through whatever adversity or strife we may encounter.
Please don’t abuse this wonderful anthem in an attempt to attack each other’s nation. This is not only silly and stupid, but frankly, insulting to BOTH anthems and nations.
Rant over. (Sorry.)
AMEN DAKE!!!!!!!
Canadians want the gold medal?
Fine.
Let’s see how they like life outside of Bush’s Missile Defense Shield.
You want under the big laser beam space type shield magic bigtop?
Price: one gold medal and you take Michael J. Fox back in a couple dozen tiny, little boxes.
Don’t fuck with us.
Just don’t.
Canadian life OUTSIDE of the Missile Defense Shield:
Mutant RCMPs scavenge for gasoline in an irradiated forbidden zone of deviant viral filth and cannibalistic three-headed moose.
Canadian life INSIDE the Missile Defense Shield:
All-day full-body massages by Farrah Fawcett clones while being spoon-fed delicious chocolate pudding.
You really want to hold onto that medal?
I mean really, REALLY?
Hope you can use it to buy back your family from a brain-sucking Shania Twain.
Good game Canada! Congrats.
Great place to visit, too!
Yes! We Canadians may have kick some Yankie butt on the ice yesterday, but we only won 17 medals? The US won 34. Now I ask you, who kicked who’s ass?
Hey Wil (and everyone else) — the flag is the wrong shape!
This is just one of my pet peeves… Canada’s flag is precisely twice as long as it is high, unlike the US. If you ever see the two with the same shape, it’s a error… the white square is supposed to be exactly a square, and the red rectangles twice as high as they are wide…
Sigh… I’ll get off my soapbox now. 🙂
Cam
Cam –
Don’t think Wil drew the flag freehand. Looks compressed to fit the space to me (like he borrowed the flag from another site or downloaded it from somewhere) Ask him where he got it and blame them. Or “Blame Canada” (ok, couldn’t resist that). Just be happy that it’s here. American flag is wrong a lot too. Some people are stupid enough to hang it backwards. Duh – Stars on the LEFT side (if you’re looking at it).
Wil, you rock =) Thanks for the tribute! Very gracious of you in your completely-smushing defeat =) (Sorry for spending my youth thinking Wesley was such a Weenie!)
It was an amazing game, by both teams. You Americans played really well – I was kinda worried until we got that 4th goal! Well played. You really earned the silver! (so don’t go thinking you can blame the IOC for biased ref-ing and get yourselves gold too! 😉 )
To address a couple of points: When we burned down the White House, all Canadians were either British or French citizens. So yeah, we did it. And it was pink before that, so you should thank us! How manly would Bush look waging war while living in a pink house? 😉
And hey guys, part of the fun of the “US-Canada rivalry” is the fact that we can laugh about it. We’re friends, allies, all of that stuff, and we all know Canada is better, so why can’t we make fun of each other without getting pissed off? =)
Roughy wrote:
> You people….
>
> It’s all about the toque.
Well, “toque” is what a snobbish pothead does. With their pinky out.
Canadians wear tooqs, eh?
–NT
17 medals is pretty high…actually, it’s the highest medal count we’ve had yet (in a winter Olympics, that is).
No, no. You can keep Shania. And Alanis, please and thank you.
no really, you can shania back. and celine… and bryan adams too, while you’re at it….
Hockey is to Canada as baseball is to the USA, so thanks for the gracious posting, Wil.
The US team put up a good struggle and have nothing to be ashamed of. Thanks to the US for hosting a great olympics.
The best tidbit about the game, of course, was the loonie buried under center ice and collected by Gretzky after the game for display in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Great story.
People finally stopped honking their car horns here in Victoria about ten hours after the game ended, from what I could tell.
I missed seeing the TNG team bobbing down the track. Is it true that Buffy entered a team of slayers? (sorry, couldn’t resist)
doh! I meant you can HAVE Shania back…
(!@#$$@^%@^SPELLCHECK#$%#!@!@#!^%^#%&!!#~!)
“Yes! We Canadians may have kick some Yankie butt on the ice yesterday, but we only won 17 medals? The US won 34. Now I ask you, who kicked who’s ass?”
There are 30 million Canadians and 280 million Americans. By rights with your argument, Americans should have won closer to 170 medals in order to make up for the almost 10 to 1 population ratio.
Mirelle: Exactly! Actually, there is much silliness in the Canadian media that ignores this point. We do ok for a small nation (in population).
To put things on an even footing, perhaps we should just go up against California (even though they have a few million more people than Canada). Ok, the bobsleigh team is set (Frakes, Dorn, Spiner, Stewart). Suggestions, anyone, on what Wil should do? (Luge if you like him, skeleton if you don’t?).
Roughy wrote:
> You people….
>
> It’s all about the toque.
Well, “toque” is what a snobbish pothead does. With their pinky out.
Canadians wear tooqs, eh?
–NT
Posted by: Nuclear Toast on February 25, 2002 03:37 PM
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Toke is what a pothead does.
Toque is what a Canadian wears.
Tooq is just how the poor illiterate northern fewls speel it b/c they’re huked on phawnix.
Here’s a link to reference how incredibly correct the cheese is on its knowledge of the hats of the far north:
http://www.rowersworld.com/Store/Rowing/regattasport_rowing_hat
You are a big dude Wil, a very big dude indeed. I don’t recall seeing to many people indulging in a cheerful round of shit taking before a game then following that up with a gracious tribute to their opponents.
Of course what is ice hockey compared to 1000 metre short track speed skating?
But none of this matters – cause my son was born yesterday and the olympics are so much dross compared to that! (until he is in em naturally!)
Grendel (aust.)
Long time lurker, first time poster.
BEST… GAME… EVER…
Seriously. That was the single best game of hockey I’ve ever had the privilege to watch. Even if Canada didn’t take it, it would have been an awesome game.
Both teams were fantastic. We were just a little hungrier, that’s all. Gretzky put his ass on the line picking the players he did, and the pressure was on for them to deliver. Boy, howdy! Did they deliver!
if everyone was as good a sport as Wil, and had the same strength of character, this world would be such a happier place! You da man WW.
Thanks Mr. Wheaton, that’s pretty cool of you. I’m pretty sure if Canada lost that game I’d be quicker to make up excuses than congratulate the opponent (after all, we WERE missing our three best players in that fateful Nagano game, though I don’t recall my reasoning for getting our asses handed to us by your boys in the 96 World Cup).
In all seriousness, it was one of the best games I’ve seen (but not THE best). Team USA’s third period reminded me of Russia’s third period against them in the semi’s, and of Finland’s third period against Canada in the (whatever you call the game before the quarter-finals).
I didn’t even know you were a hockey fan. The only thing that annoys me is that I missed out on all the shit-talking. And you were wrong, man, they DID take curling from us, both men’s and women’s. That said, I’d take both hockey golds over both curling golds any day.
Oops. That Finland game was the quarterfinals, not the game before them. My bad.
Hey! With all do respect Canada deserved it!!!
Woo-hoo!! Did anyone see how the entire country reacted !!!! It was amazing Truly a Canadian moment!!!!
Makes me pround to wear that beautiful red and white flag!
However I think the Americans took it very well, I was quite surprised! Good sports Good fun! 🙂
Oh and Wil you rock!
Posting the national antheme and it French too!!
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
Au fond tu est tr
Who the hell watches hockey?
The Canadians.
Who the hell has year round ice?
The Canadians.
Who the hell cares about the winter olympics?
The Canadians.
Who would bend over for a US penny?
The Canadians.
I sure do love Canadian ass.
Let’s change the subject over to basketball now.
I am good for confession.
Speak to me.
You are here. And you are there.
It is not too late to repent.
Like Jim Rome, I have decided to limit my focus with regard to distribution of my product. As such I shall take my leave of this most excellent of sites. I return now to the dank pit which spawned me…
Lakerboard.
Lo.
Many months ago.
I came to WWDN with one mission.
One goal.
One dream.
To restore the gold medal in hockey to the nation of Canada.
I have done that.
We have ALL done that.
You.
Me.
Levar Burton.
And to a lesser extent the actual players on the Canadian hockey team.
And so my job here is complete.
My other goal…
To pull a train with Asia Carrera and Corey Feldman, sadly, has yet to be realized, but as Wil Wheaton once told me in one of our daily late-night four hour phone sessions: “if you call me one more fucking time, I will come to your house and beat you to death with a WFS mug” by which he meant “don’t ever let go of your dream.”
Those words are with me even now.
And though I never did get to pull that train, we did win the gold and we did get to have cake and ice cream in the back of Bob Costas’ trailer in the Safeway parking lot in Provo.
Farewell.
It was all that.
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Oh.
And the chick in “The Crying Game?”
Is a guy.
This place is better than the other in a refreshing way. Well, minus the search engine.
I’m no genius. Just some guy.
Stop watching and snap out of it.
Speak to me!
Please don’t go.
Please don’t go.
Don’t go.
Seriously, do two chics at once. It’s great.