{"id":2921,"date":"2010-03-01T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:48:44","slug":"qotd-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/qotd-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The game"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It may not have been the most important hockey game in Canadian history; the 1972 Summit Series has a pretty good argument, and does the 1987 Canada Cup. There were no political implications here, just sporting ones. <\/p>\n<p>Nation-stopping sporting ones, true. If you ever wanted to knock off a bank in Lloydminster, Sask., this was probably a good day to try.<\/p>\n<p>The game was played with a desperate ferocity, and at eye-watering speed. Every goal-mouth scrum was the fall of Saigon; bodies were being thrown around as if everyone involved forgot there is a quarter of the NHL season left to play. Every puck mattered; every play mattered. Everything mattered.<\/p>\n<p>And there was hostility but no fighting; hitting but no headshots; talent so rich that when the NHL starts again today, it will look like a pale shadow of what the game can be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think both teams are winners,&#8221; said Wilson. &#8220;And maybe more than anything, hockey in general.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Bruce Arthur, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/blogs\/brucearthur\/2010\/02\/crosby-makes-leap-from-superstar-to-legend.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Crosby makes leap from superstar to legend&#8221;, <em>CBC Vancouver Now<\/em><\/a>, 2010-02-28<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have been the most important hockey game in Canadian history; the 1972 Summit Series has a pretty good argument, and does the 1987 Canada Cup. There were no political implications here, just sporting ones. Nation-stopping sporting ones, true. If you ever wanted to knock off a bank in Lloydminster, Sask., this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41,18,13],"tags":[284,314,490],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-quotations","category-sports","category-usa","tag-hockey","tag-olympics","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-L7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65593,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/65593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}