Hey Canada

[matty_peppers]

Can't really take jabs at Canada's goaltending situation. I mean, we have Jimmy Howard backed up by richard bachman and John Curry (). Please don't think that all of us Americans are jumping for joy over a prelim win with 2 B-teams on both sides.

[Mtl-Marc]

Do want.

[Karmanniac]

Don't mean to s*** stir, but why is Canada commemorating the War of 1812? You lost!

[Mike!]

Don't mean to s*** stir, but why is Canada commemorating the War of 1812? You lost!

The war of 1812 is a fascinating animal. As a kid growing up in the US, I was always taught that the British tried to retake the US, and Americans drove them off. In preparing to study for my Canadian citizenship test, the perspective on the War of 1812 is very different.

In a way, both sides won. The US declared the war first (don't remember being taught that as a kid), but they didn't succeed in invading Canada. The British/Canadian forces responded by making some inroads into US territory, burning Washington, D. C., and so on, but they were eventually driven out.

Canada won by preventing its annexation by the US. The US won by preventing any expansion of British territory out of the conflict it initiated.

[Harv]

Just wanted to pass along that the Slovak Republic (a country the size of West Virginia and a population of 5mil people) beat the United States today 4-2.


Go ahead Canada, pick your head up.

[zaYG]

Elliott, Brodeur, Smith, Holtby? 4/8 in round 2, looking to be 2/4 or maybe even 3/4 in the conference final round.

Oh, and for the interested, the Canadian monarch is the Queen in Right of Canada. This person happens to also sit on the British throne, but there is no legal subordination of Canada to Britain. Independence secured, 1982.

Elliot isn't that great, Brodeur is amazing but old, so he isn't really what I'm talking about, I'll give you Smith, and Holtby is looking good but we shall see.

Americans have some amazing talent out there right now. As does Finland.

[Karmanniac]

The US declared the war first (don't remember being taught that as a kid), but they didn't succeed in invading Canada.

Don't remember that either; the way I was taught it was that American sailors were being press-ganged onto British ships to fight against Napoleon. But yes, we lost the battle on the Plains of Abraham that would have made Canada/America a megapower forever. Nice going, Cannucks, way to spoil the party.

[92skirmishgti]

I was born in Slovakia and no live the The America, FU(K YES!

Got my cake and ate it!

[TheGreenspanator]

I feel like the plywood in a retard sandwich.

This provided me no end of LOLs, thank you TDE

Sent from my shoe phone

[Air-over-water]

But yes, we lost the battle on the Plains of Abraham that would have made Canada/America a megapower forever. Nice going, Cannucks, way to spoil the party.

Together we could have been great!!

[Mike!]

Together we could have been great!!

Together we could end this destructive conflict and rule the galaxy as father and son!

Wait...



It's funny how far off any form of EU style political or economic union between the US and Canada is now. Canadians, for the most part think, compared to the US and UK at least, that their country has its **** together, and wouldn't want Canada dragged down by US politics. Americans occasionally remember that Canada exists.

[deucestudios]

Americans occasionally remember that Canada exists.

snore, cough, what?

nevermind.

snooore....