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From: afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Ottawa Awards Stanley Cup to Quebec
Message-ID: <16552@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 13:45:28 GMT
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In article <1989Sep20.140744.23984@ccu.umanitoba.ca> ndonald@ccu.UManitoba.CA (Nick Donaldson) writes:
>Is this REALLY true? If so, Ottawa has just made one of the biggest,
>dumbest blunders it ever could. What does such a move say to hockey
>people? In my opinion, it says "It doesn't matter how you play the
>game, it's where you live that counts." Is the Stanley Cup not an
>award of merit for the best-performing hockey of the NHL season?
Yes. I thought it was a spoof on gov't policies at first but
then I called my MP. He told me that it was true!

Personally, I thought that Montreal deserved the Cup. The
idea that the Stanley Cup is for "merit" is antiquated.
--
Anthony
//// Anthony Scian afscian@violet.uwaterloo.ca afscian@violet.waterloo.edu ////
"I can't believe the news today, I can't close my eyes and make it go away" -U2