The most Canadian team at Skatetown
Canada is to hockey like the ocean is to the world. From and to the ocean does all water flow, and similarly, from and to Canada does all hockey flow around the world.
So, how Canadian is your team?
I took up playing ice hockey when I first moved from Canada to Sacramento about seven years ago (!). I was an avid fan back then but never played on the ice when I lived in Canada. It was out of boredom after just moving here that motivated me to enroll in the adult hockey class – probably because hockey was at least one thing familiar to me after I moved to the new city.
What I didn’t expect at the time was the number of Canadians at the rink, and looking back now, it makes sense. Hockey is in our soul and so Canadians will migrate to where they can find it. Any rink is really an unofficial Canadian embassy. It is here where we can talk about loonies and toonies, have our coffee crispy and talk about how we enjoyed Tim Bits – and it all makes sense.
Last Friday, I discovered that three of our players are half-Canadian. So, I did a little tally of our 19-man roster to determine our Canadian-ness. In addition to the three who are half-Canadian, we have one player who is a quarter Canadian. Another five of us are full Canadians. That gives us 7.75 FCEs (Full Canadian Equivalents), for a FCE percentage of 40.7% on our team.
That’s pretty wicked, eh?
Singh10.
