Robin Lewinson King
BBC News
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Edmonton Oilors are going from Miami to south to fight to bring back the Stanley Cup to Canada for the first time since 1993.
They would expect to avoid repetition of last year when they took the same journey and lost.
For more than 30 years, the winners of the National Hockey League top award have moved into an American team. It is a regrettable legacy for a country where ice hockey is not just a game, but part of the national identity. About 40% of the players in NHL in all teams are Canadians – more than any other country.
Last year, oileers flopped during the final game of the seven-game series against Florida Panthers.
This carson was a “heart -breaking” disadvantage to Duggan, raised in Alberta and now in America. She traveled to Miami to watch the last game where she says that she had joined by thousands of other Canadians.
It is around a throat for many Canadians that the most dye-hard fans of the league have gone for so long without a trophy, and still ready to travel big distance to spend big money and support their team.
Now Edmonton has another chance to break the losing line this year, but moving forward in Game 6, there are concerns that history can really repeat itself. While the olers strengthened the series, the first game won 4-3, the panthers on Saturday demolished Edmonton 5–2, leading to a 3–2 series lead.
Tuesday’s game will be in Miami, Do-Y-Dai.
Frequent damage, in a way, a common enemy – canadian united against America. Although NHL has seven Canadian teams for Canadian fans, when it comes to the playoffs, the most behind the Canadian team goes away. Thus, in the last series of this year, Edmonton Olers are nominated by Alimination, Canada team.
“I like it likes it, we need a cup as Canada,” said Ms. Duggan. “A lot of Canada is cheering for adamonton.”
This is especially true due to the tension between Canada and the US, which has increased between a test business war.
International rivalry actually came on one head during winter’s 4 countries, when Trump repeatedly dug it in Canada as a “51st state”.
Canadians provoked the American national anthem during the game, and three quarrels over snow during the first nine seconds of a game. Shortly after Canada won 4nations, Canadian comedian Mike Mayors applied the hockey word “elbow” as a rally for Canadian sovereignty.
During his election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney (whose hometown is Admonton) adopted his slogan.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump personally called panthers, who play about an hour away from Mara-e-Lago to offer their support.
The temperature between the two countries seems slightly cold, Ms. Duggan said. But this does not mean that a Canadian win will not be “cherry on top”.
“We’re not going to be tight,” she said, she thinks that she thinks “most Canadians know that most Americans are good people”.
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After playing ice hockey at St. Lawrence University, and then coaching at the university level, Ms. Duggan commented the game
Each Canadian has its own hypothesis as to why Canadian teams have not won cups from worldly to worldly conspiracy since 1993.
For the beginning, under the eyes of NHL Commissioner Gary Betman, the US franchise has overtaken the league, seven of the eight new teams since 1993, seven have been moving to the states such as Nevada, Florida and Recently. Now there are only seven Canadian teams compared to the US 25.
Others indicate mild temperatures and attractively breaking in many American states, which are as a draw for free agents.
Ms. Duggan likes to think that it is at least partially due to the specific egalitarian gameplay of ice hockey – players are on ice for 45 seconds only at a time, usually, which means that a star player, such as a star player, can not give a monopoly to the Rink.
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The 28-year-old, compared to the Hall of Fame Wayne Greatzaki, has been playing with the team since the first draft pick in NHL during the 2015-2016 season. While it has taken the oilers for years to reach the level they are playing right now, it was clear that he would be a star.
“If they were designed for Boston or Chicago or Phili or Rangers, or in fact for any team in the United States, I think the hockey would have grown rapidly,” said Ms. Duggan. “You can’t know anything about hockey and see five minutes and see [he’s] Best player. ,
Now staying in New Hampshire, university level ice hockey and coach, after going to America to play Ms. Duggan – whose grandfather -grandfather was the mayor of Admonton – said that the Olers are still her home team.
“I think it was a piece of the house that was always there,” he said. “They are probably years away from my life, because some of their puck drops are like 10pm, and I see every game.”