Canadian Thanksgiving

[Shakey Rustie]

Serious question...do Canadians gather with family and eat a big dinner?

Of course we do. How else would we celebrate Columbus' discovery of hockey?

 

[snipes]

Serious question...do Canadians gather with family and eat a big dinner?

Holy ****.

What type of culture do you think Canadians have?

The Yanks took this holiday from us.

 

[napoleon in rags]

Nope... we all run around naked eating raw polar bear meat from sticks, while chanting prayers to the snow goddess in french....????????

OK, that's weird because that's exactly what the family down the path from our igloo does.

Joe? Joe from Canada? Is that you? It's Bruce, Bruce from Canada. Drop by when you get a chance.

 

[BatVader]

OK, that's weird because that's exactly what the family down the path from our igloo does.

Joe? Joe from Canada? Is that you? It's Bruce, Bruce from Canada. Drop by when you get a chance.

 

[napoleon in rags]

Of course we do. How else would we celebrate Columbus' discovery of hockey?

OK, I'm confused... I thought Benjamin Franklin discovered the Lightening?

 

[Shakey Rustie]

OK, I'm confused... I thought Benjamin Franklin discovered the Lightening?

He did, back in 1992.

 

[Galactico]

Holy ****.

What type of culture do you think Canadians have?

The Yanks took this holiday from us.

I’ve been living in Canada for almost all my life (24 years) and still don’t know if Canadians really celebrate thanksgiving. So I am not sure if you’re sarcastic or not.

I live in Quebec and and people most definitely do not celebrate Thanksgiving here. I am originally crom Eastern Europe so we don’t celebrate it either.

 

[Arhidia]

How about we keep the tv closed
And the cell phones off and spend time with fam

 

[BatVader]

How about we keep the tv closed
And the cell phones off and spend time with fam

Or we can go to the bar and watch hockey!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pyrophorus]

Ahem....not Canadian Thanksgiving

Original Thanksgiving.

 

[Pyrophorus]

How about we keep the tv closed
And the cell phones off and spend time with fam

Cell phones are verboten, when we're out or during a family meal.

 

[Machinehead]

They did?

They had games all day...

 

[njdevils1982]

Know why they have bagged milk in Ontario?

They think outside the box.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone north of the 49th parallel!

thanks……now surrender the northwest angle already!

 

[BatVader]

thanks……now surrender the northwest angle already!

Yeah....damn it

 

[ZJuice]

Serious question...do Canadians gather with family and eat a big dinner?

I’ve just finished my third big dinner in a row (sat, sun, mon)

 

[hfman]

They should schedule it as
Sunday night.. Jets vs Canucks
Monday Habs vs Leafs, Oilers vs Flames
Alternate locations...
2020, Jets at Canucks, Leafs at Habs, Oilers at Flames.
2021 switch, Canucks at Jets, Habs at Leafs, Flames at Oilers
2022 switch... and so on

wow what an elaborate plan

it' safe to say you are the only one on the face of this earth that came up with that kind of a suggestion

how did you come up with such a brilliant idea

 

[sabremike]

thanks……now surrender the northwest angle already!

 

[End on a Hinote]

We all know just how popular football is on American Thanksgiving. But why can't NHL try making this a thing on Canadian Thanksgiving?

We have 7 Canadian teams. Why not have 2 face off Sunday night, 4 face off Monday afternoon/evening, and the other could get either a Sunday afternoon or Monday night game.

Just seems like it makes too much sense to me. Hockey and Thanksgiving seems like it would be a great tradition for Canadians.

I've always felt Hockey Day in Canada should be on Canadian Thanksgiving. All 7 Canadian teams playing back-to-back-to-back-to-back with 1 playing a US team, obviously.

 

[Mikeshane]

NFL teams play 16 games in a regular season which makes each individual game much more meaningful than the NHL with their 82 game schedule. Plus it allows the players to more fully commit to each game and give it a full effort.

 

[BatVader]

wow what an elaborate plan

it' safe to say you are the only one on the face of this earth that came up with that kind of a suggestion

how did you come up with such a brilliant idea

Vodka, tequila, boredom... that last part is my secret ingredient

 

[hoglund]

We all know just how popular football is on American Thanksgiving. But why can't NHL try making this a thing on Canadian Thanksgiving?

We have 7 Canadian teams. Why not have 2 face off Sunday night, 4 face off Monday afternoon/evening, and the other could get either a Sunday afternoon or Monday night game.

Just seems like it makes too much sense to me. Hockey and Thanksgiving seems like it would be a great tradition for Canadians.

I agree, they used to have CFL football on Thanksgiving, but stopped that for no reason. It would be smart to have a triple header, starting with Leafs vs Montreal at 1, Calgary vs Edmonton at 4, and Winnipeg and Vancouver at 7. Each year they could switch a few teams.

 

[danyhabsfan]

I am Canadian and I don't care about Thanksgiving at all except for the long week end.

 

[Lunatik]

They should schedule it as
Sunday night.. Jets vs Canucks
Monday Habs vs Leafs, Oilers vs Flames
Alternate locations...
2020, Jets at Canucks, Leafs at Habs, Oilers at Flames.
2021 switch, Canucks at Jets, Habs at Leafs, Flames at Oilers
2022 switch... and so on

With Canadian Thanksgiving also being Columbus Day, you don't need to exclusively have Canadian vs Canadian match-ups.

Sunday have Toronto vs. Ottawa at 7pm ET, Vancouver vs. Seattle at 10pm ET
Monday have Winnipeg vs. Minnesota at 4pm ET, Montreal vs. Boston at 7pm ET, Calgary vs. Edmonton 10pm ET

 

[Jeti]

I’ve been living in Canada for almost all my life (24 years) and still don’t know if Canadians really celebrate thanksgiving. So I am not sure if you’re sarcastic or not.

I live in Quebec and and people most definitely do not celebrate Thanksgiving here. I am originally crom Eastern Europe so we don’t celebrate it either.

People definitely celebrate Thanksgiving in Quebec. It's a stat holiday here. I had multiple celebrations this weekend in Quebec.

It's not like Remembrance day where Quebec tries as hard as possible to forget that Canada fought both world wars as part of the British Empire.

 

[hoglund]

I am Canadian and I don't care about Thanksgiving at all except for the long week end.

The point is you have a day that many Canadians don't work and can watch hockey all day from 1 to 10. They used to do that in the CFL, but dropped it for no apparent reason.