TAIT: World's Longest Hockey Game taps into a quintessentially Canadian response |
In the patriotic CBC documentary RIVALS: The Four Nations Cup, author Dave Bidini makes a thought-provoking point about how people don’t gather for entertaining events like we used to.
We don’t gather together like we used to for things like going to the movies.
Yet, when skates, sticks and pucks are in the vicinity — whether it be on a country pond, a professional hockey arena or the pinnacle of the Winter Olympics — we continue to come together,
As I tap this journalistic journey, the television is on low as the Canadian women’s hockey team is facing Switzerland.
Throw in a need. A cause. A challenge, aside from hockey, Oh Canada: we respond like there’s no tomorrow.
Because, for some, there might not be a tomorrow.
Forty hockey players are camping out at Saikers Acres in Strathcona County for 11 days in a sanctuary of playground and philanthropy, for a love affair: playing the game they love, for the people they love.
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