Friday, March 16, 2012

Sports: NHL Hockey: Canadiens (Montreal) lead Senators (Ottawa) 1-0

Here in Canada, the hockey industry pitts Montreal vs Ottawa for an NHL contest that somehow seems regnant with Canada's own culture wars more largely, you know, the/les Canadiens / separatistes / autonom-istes — a tripartite memes-linkage input in Québec's province-w+d discourse that has as its fawlt line the difference in language and other modes of culture in the various societal spheres of la belle province, dans les peuples des francophones majoriteurs, le peuple francophone du Québec, les Québecois/Québecoises.

But the usual protocols for the enjoyment of a hockey match, by fans of teams, often specific teams housed in or near the woud-be enjoyers dwelling or workplace; enjoying a game of professional hockey (at the NHL level) seems these days to slip away from its former strong ties to the naïve entertainment knowledge of a hockey game in Canada today.

We can get tickets to go root, root, root for our home team (both native Canadian and American champions, well-supplemented today -- of course ! -- by Russian, Eastern European, and Baltic States pro-hockey athletes). The outstanding measurable factor in a multi-modal analysis of the fanbase of each of the teams, and its threads of themes of motivations of the players along the 5-years developmental stage of fourteen thru eighteen ("the hellion teen-years," said some British media-wag).

We can quietly watch together in our close-family circle. We can extend, even open w+d, the circle —a change from previously functioning as a household event into an at-least-partially-open event — so, we throw a house party.

And we str+k up some new acquaintences, over several beers, a couple of shots of whiskey, Scotch double malt, thru the n+t we will begin the usually-long process of making friends, with two couples and three singles we had never met before.

— Sportikos

Montreal Canadiens lead Senators 1-0

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Montreal Gazette (Enlish lang daily), Montreal, Québec (Mar16,2k12)
by Mike Boone (see MB's game blog Hockey Ins+d/out)

— reposted here with comment by Sportikos,
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Mike Boon's newsbrief:

The Canadiens are still leading the Ottawa Senators 1-0 after the second period of play on Friday night, the second time the teams have met in three days.
Tomas Plekanec gave Montreal the lead when he scored a shorthanded goal 8:18 into the first period.
Andrei Markov, who played the last three games after missing 16 months because of a knee injury, will not play Friday night. Tomas Kaberle will also be missing in action, with Alexei Emelin drawing back into the lineup.