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Only in Canada could hockey trigger this much insanity

GARY MASON

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 11:35 AM EDT 28/03/08

Is it just me, or are we all losing our minds? ...Read the full article

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  1. Ryan Vanderpol from Vancouver, Canada writes: I agree with you sir.
    No person should be asked to miss his or her child's birth.

    And he has been away from his wife for the entire season that must be very difficult.

    More power to Roberto to do what he feels is right.
  2. L Harder from Canada writes: Saw some hockey commentary on TSN. They saw no problem with fighting in Junior. Apparently they forgot that they were talking about minors. Perhaps hockey should develop their goons in the minor leagues where most players are adults.
  3. Pat Billings from CDN, Canada writes: La ville est Hockey!!!

    Ratings for the Q playoffs have never been higher.
  4. Daniel Roy from Toronto, Canada writes: Very good article. Just wish there'd be more of those kind of objective matter-of-fact articles in sports, instead of the usual useless discussions going on. I can't count the number of times I've been ashamed of the lack of civility on the ice (can't stand anymore the last 2 minutes of a hockey game taking half an hour), so I basically gave up on hockey awhile ago. When enough people do the same, maybe something will change, and we will see a real effort to stop that senseless violence (with meaningful suspensions and fines).
  5. Sean O'Reilly from Canada writes: Only in Canada is right......

    Of course it doesn't help that the media in this country do a pour job of covering other sports.
  6. Ryan Vanderpol from Vancouver, Canada writes: She has had a "Delicate" pregnancy and all her family lives in florida. It is one thing for her to fly where she wants but her family and support network is in Florida. There is more to this story than meets the eye and I don't think it is our business to pry and learn all the details.

    Just cause the pay cheques are big doesn't grant the right for everyone to pry into their personal lives.

    The other item to mention is regardless of his wife's location he would have to leave and miss the next game at least as they are on the road.

    Wherever Gina is he would be missing the game.
  7. Gary Dare from Portland, Oregon, Canada, writes: Steve Allan writes, "If she can live in far off Florida during the hockey season that tells me their relationship isn't that important." Couples who both work in high value jobs are living separately, more and more, in different cities and even countries. It has been common amongst academics (hard to find and gain two tenure positions at the same school or even in same city) but has spread to business and politics. Plenty of Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal or NYC-DC-Boston-Phillie pairings that I am aware of. It does help not to have kids, in many of those cases.
  8. Hap Stokes from Canada writes: Hey boys ever picked up your child when it was only hours old?
    That will make a man out of a boy in only mere seconds.
    How many of you fathers wouldn't do the same as Loungo has done?
    Good on you MAN.--Your wife will worship you until her dying day.
  9. Patrick E from Canada writes: It's pathetic that one of the preceding comments has taken the issue from the need to re-examine hockey players' (and fans') priorities and turned it into an issue of a hockey wife's race. So is the message that hockey players that care about their careers shouldn't marry Italians? That's the benefit of freedom of speech - people's true colours become apparent.
  10. sidney Goldberg from writes: Good for Roberto for understanding what is important. His wife lives in Florida because he use to play hockey in the area and has made his off season home in the area. His wife's doctor and support system happens to be in Florida. Roberto has kept the Canucks alive all season inspite of serious injuries to the defense and a lack of Points from a weak offense. By all means you have set your priorites right and will be with your wife in this once in a lifetime moment. One can't ask someone like Steve Allan to understand that priority. Maybe someday he will grow up enough to understand that no amount of money is more important than seeing the birth of your first child. Perhaps once the child has arrived and is healthy, Roberto will move the whole family to Vancouver. Roberto happens to do a lot at Canuck Place and within the Lower BC Mainland, maybe Steve can share with us his contribution to the community he lives in. Sydney Joel Goldberg
  11. Robert Miller from Halifax, Canada writes: We regularly top the QJMHL in attendance with 9,000-10,000 fans for most games in Halifax and do not use goonery to sell the sport here...

    However, Mr. Mason is correct that Canadians are losing their minds !
  12. aniphylactic shock troops from Victoria, Canada writes: Wait till he misses Friday's game and the Wild blow out the Canucks. Then Canucks fans will really go beserk.
  13. Tom Henderson from Canada writes: has the author ever noticed the manner in which the US media covers football?

    what a dolt.
  14. Sandy T. from Canada writes:

    Tom Henderson from Canada writes:
    "has the author ever noticed the manner in which the US media covers football?

    what a dolt."

    What does one have to do with the other? Does the idiocy of another nation's sports fans make the author's point any less true?

    Over the last twenty or thirty years, the perspective of entertainment, which pro sports certainly is, has become horribly skewed. It has been granted a position in society it really doesn't deserve and has seen its status unduly exalted for no discernable good reason, other than perhaps selling advertising or the expedient of keeping the great unwashed's attentions focussed on anything other than what our governments are committing in our names.

    Bread and circuses and shiny things people. Diversions have become the news of the day. Nero is fiddling.

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