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Why Can’t Canada Win The Stanley Cup?

This story was originally published May 31, 2013. Once again, two U.S. teams, the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning, are headed to the Stanley Cup finals. Stanley Cup banners of the Montreal Canadiens, the last Canadian team to win the championship, hang from the rafters at Bell Centre in Montreal. The N.H.L.’s conference finals […]

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Canada Not Owning the Podium

Not to pick on our neighbors to the North — especially after the whoopin’ the Americans gave them in hockey tonight — but the host nation is starting to have a very disappointing Olympic Games. After having explicitly adopted a goal — through its “Own the Podium” program — to come away with the most […]

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