One would think Canadians would be rooting for Vancouver over Boston in this year’s NHL finals. But as Canadian author Michael McKinley sees it, “Vancouver isn’t really Canada because you can’t skate outside.” By this rationale, Boston is more Canadian than Vancouver.
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Suffocated by Hockey–and Loving It
Sports Saturday As two championship-starved hockey-rich cities prepare to square off in the Stanley Cup finals (Chicago and Philadelphia), Ljubljana English Department’s Jason Blake once again reflects upon the meaning of hockey for Canadians—and upon the omnipresence of stereotypes about Canadians playing hockey. While he was distraught at seeing the last Canadian team (the Montreal […]
When It’s Hockey vs. Art, Who Wins?
Sports Saturday Jason Blake, who reports on North American hockey for us from Ljubljana, Slovenia, has contributed this column in the wake of the Montreal Canadiens’ remarkable back-to-back 7-game playoff victories over first the top-seeded Washington Capitals and then the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins—the first time an eighth-place team has ever performed such […]
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Hockey, Canada’s Great Romance
Sidney Crosby Sports Saturday Jason Blake, a faculty member at the University of Ljubljana English Department, has just written a book on Canadian Hockey Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2010). The book explores five national themes addressed by hockey literature: nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family. I met Jason (who is Canadian) […]
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