Well my newly aquired hockey skills will be put to good use back home, coaching the up and coming, but highly underrated, Australian Hockey Team. Nicknamed the Popsicles, their prowess on the ice will be visible for all to see, and should prove to be a much discussed topic of conversation among hockey experts from Tofino to Halifax, and Sydney to Perth.
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y_nigel
Australian Hockey team in the olympics eh?
kinda like the Jamaican bobslead team or "Eric The Eel" right?
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andybox
As unlikely as it sounds nigel, im afraid so...Now if we could just find somewhere to train....
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y_nigel
Yeah - too bad they can't just play New Zealand every time!
From Wiki:
Australia has the distinction of holding a world record for most goals and highest winning margin in a World Championship game; they defeated New Zealand by a score of 58-0 in 1987.
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andybox
Have a look at the current world standings and notice the similarities between the Canadian team and the Australian team. They have both improved one place. Discard that column on the left.
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thoughtpolice
Holy crap Andy, look at all your players, they are Canucks!
Great line in #26, 'discard that left column'....
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cantwaittogo
I remember from my visit to the Hockey Hall of Fame a few years ago the display with all of the utterly bizarre uniforms from non-hockey playing countries around the world. The 'Roos uniform was yellow, if I remember correctly, and reminded me of pictures I've seen of the old California Golden Seals.
Why doesn' t some clever entrepreneur get the marketing rights for the IIHF uniforms for t-shirts and jerseys? Hockey being what it is in this country, and the number of immigrants being high, surely there's money to be made in marketing a string of replica 'Roos jerseys as well as China... Japan... Korea... Mexico etc.....
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