Нас Обокрали! (We wuz robbed!)

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Re: Нас Обокрали! (We wuz robbed!)
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2010, 07:36:57 PM »
It galvinized a country. If you ask any Canadian (now over 50) "Where were you when the goal was scored?" they'll never ask which goal.
I'm 51 and I don't really like hockey (long family history for those reasons), but I have a clear memory of where I was during that final game and when that final goal was scored: my girlfriend's living room and her mother went wild.  It did galvanize the country.

Those were different times politically and it wasn't just a hockey game.

I think I should explain that my rhetorical final sentence was not a prediction about the outcome of a game four years in the future but a warning that sporting rivalry between Russia and Canada will be exacerbated by the former's rankling memories of humiliation at the hands of the latter.

Exactly.  And not just because of the recent Olympics. These two countries have a long hockey rivalry.
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