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"Benjamin Franklin Is Killin' The Game!" Hockey Fan Must Be Seen
Before tonight’s Lightning-Rangers Game 7, CBC caught up with a fan who paid $4,500 for a seat along the glass. “Hundreds only. Benjamin Franklin is killin’ the game!” Give this guy a reality show; Hockey Night in Canada has its hero. ...
Russia Will Be Punished For Skipping Canadian National Anthem
Russia got smoked by Canada, 6-1, in yesterday’s final of the IIHF World Championship, the most prestigious annual tournament in hockey. (The U.S. took the bronze). The Russian players stuck around for the medal ceremony, but left the ice before Canada’s national anthem was played:...
Canada Man Who Heckles Junior Hockey Games Has No Regrets
Do you remember when you found your calling? It might have happened at a different point in your life than your parents, siblings, or friends. Corey Simms found his about five years ago while watching the St. John's Caps, a junior hockey team based in Newfoundland and Labrador. He decided to yell at...
Here's A Fine Canadian Beer That Isn't One Of The Obvious Ones
Yesterday a reader suggested that we pump out a "Canadian Beers, Ranked" post, which is a good idea long overdue. Part of the reason we haven't done one yet is good old classic American sloth, and the other part is that, regarding the macro category at least, I can't imagine ranking anything No. 1. ...
Canadian World Champion Hockey Team Celebrates With Bare-Ass Twitpic
Look at that, a nice photo of some Canadian hockey players celebrating their 5-4 victory over Russia in the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, tweeted out by Canadian Olympic freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau. Tweeted out...and then quickly deleted once Bilodeau realized that he had captur...
Awful Neighbor Sics City On Backyard Rink That Causes "Visual Harm"
Backyard ice rinks are a tradition in Canada and the northern United States. They are practically the only benefit of living in the goddamn tundra. Some backyard rinks are amateur affairs, nothing more than some 2x4s and a hose, while others cost thousands of dollars and have lights, real boards, an...
Man Throws Snake At Tim Hortons Employee After Argument Over Onions
This morning, two customers got into an argument over onions with an employee at a Saskatoon Tim Hortons, and one of the men immediately ended the argument by throwing a snake. Snake coming in hot!...
Youth Hockey Coach Fired For Being A Big Fan Of The Nazis
Christopher Maximilian Sandau (not pictured), a minor hockey coach in North Delta, B.C., was fired this weekend after his league discovered his Facebook page, which was chock full of Nazi propaganda. "You can't be a Nazi and coach kids hockey," one parent said, but most of Sandau's adult life seems ...
Canadian College Football Fans Are Adorable Berserkers
Sixty years ago, LIFE magazine tapped into the joys and tortures of football fandom by traveling north of the American border, where collegians in Ontario were positively freaking out over a rare win on the gridiron. All these years later, there's something quite sweet about the pictures—a reminde...
Watch The Emotional Ceremonies Preceding Tonight's NHL Games In Canada
This week's dual tragedies in Ottawa and Montreal have understandably driven both remembrance and national pride in Canada. On the heels of Pittsburgh's display earlier this week, a pre-game ceremony in Ottawa was simulcast to Toronto and Montreal, providing fans in those arenas the opportunity to...
Here's How "O Canada" Sounded Tonight In Edmonton
Tonight's Capitals-Oilers game in Edmonton is the only NHL competition in Canada after the postponement of the Leafs-Senators game. We brought you how the U.S. performed "O Canada" earlier (viewable below); here's Samantha King's rendition at Rexall Place....
Penguins Perform "O Canada" Prior To Game Against The Flyers
U.S.-based NHL teams generally eschew singing "O Canada" before the opening face off against a fellow American squad, but in light of today's events in Ottawa the Penguins added Canada's national anthem to Jeff Jimerson's program. (They provided Pittsburghers the lyrics to sing along.)...
I'm So Annoyed That Justin Bieber Scored This Really Sweet Goal
Damn it all, this is a legit nice move from the little shit:...
Ice-Skating Canadian National Anthem Singer Trips On Rug, Keeps Singing
It's hard to say why Mark Donnelly was singing "O Canada" on skates, doing laps around the teams at a junior hockey game in Penticon. But he plows right through that hit like a Rich Peverly meme in a tuxedo....
Old-Ass, Fat-Ass Bear Roams Around Canadian Neighborhood
The residents of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, have spent the last few days hosting a very old, very fat, and very chill bear....
Burger King, And <em>Only</em> Burger King, Wants To Be Canadian
Burger King Worldwide Inc., a chain of over 13,000 sad, ignored, tumbleweed-strewn burger graveyards in 79 countries around the world, has agreed to fork over around $11 billion to purchase Canadian donuts-and-breakfast chain Tim Hortons Inc., giving the new combined company ownership of exactly...
Connor McDavid, Still Undressing Defenses
There are few situations more meaningless than an exhibition game at a summer development camp. I know. But still, you need to see this nasty shit Connor McDavid did:...
Canada Destroys Kuwait In Under-19 Football, 91-0
Look at this photo of the Kuwait team before their first game in the International Federation of American Football tournament. So full of hope. Canada wrecked them, 91-0. Masakeen....
Claude Giroux Reportedly Arrested After Ass-Grabbing A Cop
The Ottawa Sun reports that Flyers star Claude Giroux spent last night in jail after an incident with a police officer:...