Go Canadamerica!

The 2011 Stanley Cup will wrap up this week in North America as America's Boston Bruins and Canada's Vancouver Canucks muscle for rank to show not just which state but which country is this year's best competitor in the (uh, Inter?)National Hockey League. 

Oh wait. 

Actually, as it turns out, America's friendly neighbor to the north is apparently going to be the winner, no matter how the last few games are sliced. Both teams are comprised of a majority of Canadians.

In fact, Vancouver's team actually has more Americans than Boston's team. 

And even at that, out of 31 players for Vancouver, the number of American players, which already outnumbers those on America's Boston team? A whopping six. 

So how many (or how few) of the 33 players on Boston's team are actually from the United States?

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It's Hell Without the NHL

No one but a Winnipegger can understand the psychological effect of the Jets, our short-lived NHL team, who were relocated to greener pastures in Phoenix in 1996, when I was but twelve years old. At that point, a city already dealing with an inferiority complex was dealt a crucial blow. It is part of the Winnipeg imaginary that we are not world class, we are not an important capital, we do not have any attractions that tend to draw observers from the outside world (there’s that Golden Boy, who sits atop our provincial legislative building, but he doesn’t even have a penis.

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