Happy b-day CanadianTeke!
 

Happy birthday day to the frater from maple country!

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You must be excited hockey is back.

you have no idea how excited---our first brotherhood event of the year is watching the Leafs Senz game--there is a huge rivalry between those two teams and because half of our brothers are from Toronto and the other half Ottawa it is always alot of fun!

Is this the year the Leafs or any Canadian team takes the cup?

the Leafs haven't made it to the cup since 1967 so we are more than due!

Yes true, do you theink the Avalanche are as strong this year?

they traded away chris drury this afternoon to the flames, so they aren't as strong as they were, nobody will beat detroit again they have a powerhouse team reminisent of the 1970's Montreal Dynasty. It would be awesome if a smaller market team like edmonton or calgary could win the cup but it is not likly to happen.

The red wings are usually good. You never know with the smaller teams . Some of the unknow players they have might end up to be stars. Look at baseball and the Twins for proof miracles can happen.

the thing with teams like edmonton and calgary is that they act like farm teams for the rest of the league, they bring in young players who turn out to be really good and then they leave the smaller team for a bigger team that can afford them. so they get great players, edmonton has brought some of the best players into the league, Like Wayne Gretzky they just can't afford to keep them around for much more then 2 or 3 years.

True but they can hope that they can keep them for those couple years and win something. Look what Wayne Gretzky did for Edmington.

it's true, they have won the cup before they have good players a good goalie it is possible depending on teams like detroit

Basically just pray the have potential Wayne Gretzky's that haven't been seen yet.

thats about it, calgary has iginla who is probably the best shot in the league, he was the MVP this year so they have potential especially with the aquirement of drury.

Guess we will have an idea by mid season but thats awhile away.

it's true, nothing is for certain really until the playoffs and thay is 8 months away.

I won't realy follow hockey til baseball is over but thats not to far away.

i don't follow baseball---i follow NHL, CFL, NFL

lol CFL. There is no way I could ever watch that down here unless I had a satelite dish. CFL is like the minors leagues for the NFL.

obviosuly the CFL is a farm league, it has produced so good players though, Doug Flutie, Rocket Ismail et al. I like it more than the NFL, bigger field one less down' slightly different rules, it is a far more open game, not as much BS as the NFL. and as the slogan goes "we have bigger balls"!!

Do CFL games sale out?

some cities yeah it does, like winnipeg it is the only team they got in places like Toronto the Argos games never get close to sold out, to close to buffalo.

What is their equivilant to the superbowl?

the Grey cup is the equivilant, it is a cup given to the league by Lord Albert Henery Earl Grey in 1909.

The CFL is that old???

the first game of football played in North America was at McGill University in Montreal Quebec. Which then Challenged Harvard to a game introducing it to the American Public. Hate to say it boys but football is Canadian!

Lol but the Americans took it over and improved it. :D lol

both versions are good, CFL is more open, bigger field(110 yards), one less down, no fair catch rule, at the same time the NFL has higher calibre players, more strategy etc so both are good.

Who played hockey first?

The modern sport of Ice Hockey was developed in Halifax Nova Scotia in about 1870

At least part of the NHL is in Canada. How many teams you have up there? 4?

6, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal and of course Toronto.

Now the NFL needs some teams up there but I think that might help to kill the CFL if that happend

alot of people have talked about bringing a team to Toronto but then the Argos would defenitly die. I think the CFL and the NFL have some sort of a agreement, i think the NFL owns the CFL or at least controlling interest.

Yah I am not sure if the NFL will do well most professional sports teams in Canada don't do well except for maybe hockey.

even then 10 years ago there were teams in Winnipeg and Quebec City, The Jays were doing well while they were winning but there is no interest in a losing team.

How about the Toronto Raptors?lol

the raps games sell out so they are doing something right for now, there is alot of interest in basketball here.

I hear a moose hunt show is popular up there. We have an exachange student from Canada and she said her dad watched it all the time.

i don't know of any moose hunt show, but it probably depends on where she is from. Moose hunting is popular though.