142 Replies to ““It’s not exactly something uncommon in Canada.””

  1. What does the blatant disregard for laws and by-laws by the Canadian Woman’s Hockey team and Jon Montgomery say to the world about Canadians and Canada?
    It says that Canada has a lot of stupid laws; so many that reasonable Canadians will ignore them from time to time.

  2. Ya know what? There’s a time and a place for everything. The Olympic ice wasn’t the place to crack open the alcohol last night.
    I don’t care if the Canadian women’s hockey team won gold at the Olympics: That doesn’t entitle them to flaunt Olympic rules — or any rules for that matter. We can see where this attitude has taken us with the Hollywood types, journos, musicians, and politicos: We’re better than everyone else and so we get to do anything we feel like, anytime.
    What’s this kind of entitlement done for us?
    I still think the members of the Canadian women’s hockey team have an obligation — old fashioned of me? — to be role models, which means working within the limits imposed on not just them but everyone.
    They earned their medal; I’d rather not see them take this win as entitlement to flaunt the rules that the rest of us are asked to respect and follow.

  3. Osumashi – would you have any objections if this was the men’s team? Just curious.

  4. Perhaps I misinterpreted “new” but my impression was that her sympathies on this matter align with myself and tanker.
    GET OVER IT!
    After the figure skating judges and east european “shamateurs”, the IOC is in no position to criticize.
    If I was there I woulda bought the beer.
    My take is the US Olympic committee is a bunch of girls….who can’t lose gracefully or play hockey worth sh!t against OUR girls.

  5. Role models? Like the men on the Canadian hockey team have to be role models? When they get back to the NHL and return to all the crap associated with that steaming pile of violence and drug abuse?
    As for “Olympic rules”, let the IOC remove the log from its collective eye before they pick at the mote in anyone else’s. The IOC is corrupt to the core and no member of that sick, incestuous organization has the right to pretend to be morally indignant.
    I’m proud of our women’s hockey team, and they deserved every moment of their celebration at centre ice.
    As Gary@4:32 said, the only mistake was apologizing. They should have told the IOC and COC to piss off.

  7. Sorry, I haven’t been paying attention too much attention to this supposed controversy, but what exactly are these Olympic rules that were allegedly broken?
    The IOC, like the UN, is a gangster organization. If you want to talk about broken rules, then by all means investigate, but start at the top.
    I’m pretty sure that beer after a hockey game is a residency requirement in this country.
    Good on you girls. You took the gold much easier than I expected.

  8. I have to agree with batb @6:03, it was a sad state of affairs altogether. We could have and should have shown alot more class. However, the conspiracy theorist in me is surprised at how long the cameras kept rolling after the credits stopped.

  9. Super gutsy hockey!
    Party on ladies, you are the best in the world!
    Also, Kudos to the Finnish gals for their class act to shake our girls hands after the podium ceremony.
    Bronze medals and with accompanying broad smiles to boot.
    Classy!

  10. Our team won and girls were celebrating. And I think that it was their right to go wild after such a hard training and such a wonderful win.
    Perhaps in Japan such a behaviour would be called unladylike, but some might think the same about sour face of Mao Asada after losing gold medal. Perhaps some people don’t drink at all or are prohibited drinking and that’s why they do not like a “Hockey Culture”. However this “Hockey Culture” is a Canadian Culture, and majority of us accept it as such. Even if some of us do not really like *gasp*………….hockey.
    *****
    Batb
    I think that it is not wise to equate flaunting the rules by kids in classroom with victory drinking. Canadian woman team was training hard for a couple of years and they won the Olympic Gold. Their celebration was not public and nobody would have known it if not for paparazzi.
    You are right that the rules are in place for a reason but without breaking the rules people would be still living up the trees in Africa. Sometimes it is necessary or excusable to break the rules and sometime it is not. Yesterday it was the former.
    It is a pity that you don’t understand it.

  11. batb @ 6:03 pm refer to robp @ 5:46. I’m betting one or more of them had their own cameras along. Who wouldn’t want photos to show to your grand kids years from now?

  12. Call me a dope all you want, but I’ll bet I’m the only commentor, who’s directly involved with amateur sport, at a national level.
    I had a kid do a backflip, after winning the provincials, inside a boxing ring. I gave him permission to do it, even though I knew it was against the rules. It almost cost him a trip to the nationals. The president of the provincial association tore me a brand new ass, and I had to do some real sweet talking to save the day.
    I understand that hockey has a long history of encouraging bad behaviour, but the elite teams have taken on a whole new image. They dress in suits, they keep their language civilized, and seem to be trying, very hard, to improve their image.
    Personally, I wouldn’t care if they stripped, and licked each other from head to toe. I haven’t watched a single minute of the games, and never will. But, if they want to keep receiving government grants, to improve their sport, they should keep the partying out of the public eye.
    There’s another issue I’m in a battle over, right now. An amateur boxer, from Red Deer, is currently awaiting trial for cocaine trafficking. He was formally charged, back in December, along with 8 others, with moving 50 Kg. a month, and turning cocaine into crack. He converted to Islam, a few years back, and is closely associated with an ex-boxer, from Red Deer, who’s in jail, and affiliated with the muslim brotherhood.
    The young man, awaiting trial, has not been suspended from competition, and is in Halifax, right now, competing in a box-off for the national championship. I asked my association to suspend him from competition, until his trial has been completed. They refused, saying “he’s innocent, until proven guilty”.
    His coach, by the way, is none other than Rev. Stephen Boissoint, the man who battled the HRC over the right to bash gays. I guess cocaine distribution is fine, as long as there are no fairies involved.
    Now you can see why I’m a bit touchy over the conduct of amateur athletes.

  14. AP National Writer David Crary has been filing mostly negative stories about the Olympics since they opened (check out David Crary AP). I find it slightly off-putting that a photographer would lurk around the women’s changing room and rink, 1/2 hour after the event ended. If he were able to access the athlete’s village, think of what pictures he could shoot. In the age of cell phones, of course the girls shouldn’t have assumed any privacy. But on the other hand, it is not exactly Pulitzer Prize journalism.

  15. I was ashamed and felt shame for them. Molson Canadian? Come on, their own urine would be far superior.

  16. Having a few celebratory drinks in a closed arena with no fans around … big deal!
    However, smoking indoors? That ranks right up there with kidnapping, auto theft and attempted murder. Someone could have been killed.

  17. Gary@4:32 What Gary said with the proviso next time keep it in the dressing room. That way the busybodies won’t see.
    Kudos to the Finish women for being sports and savouring the moment.

  18. Lighten up. They figured they had the place to themselves and wanted to bask in the moment. My word were they supposed to slip into crinolines and blush demurely? A hockey player that drinks and smokes. Do they think they are curlers or something.

  19. After more than 50 games and the hard work and disciplined practices to earn the gold medal, there is this much media whining?!!!
    There is an uproar about some beer, champagne and a few stogies (just trying to be like the boys of winter) in an arena which has been nearly emptied of any fans, what is the big deal?

  21. Forget the IOC. and the critics, and the Olympic haters!
    The gals reached the pinnacle of their success! The competition was over, and it was time to celebrate.
    Party on gals, you deserve it!
    If only the critics here had half an idea how the guys have celebrated in the past, there would be nothing but ‘crickets’ coming from your traps.
    Did I say PARTY ON?

  22. Cheers to the ladies …. that’s not a bunch of children playing on our team.
    I really wish they had told the IOC to go pound sand.

  23. DP, who’s calling you a Dope? In spite of the fact that you’ve made statements that are completely false or totally irrelevant to the discussion, no one is calling you a dope.

  24. Molson is the only beer allowed in the stadium. For us punters in the stands it was $8 for 8 oz.

  25. Dp, none of that was relevant.
    The game was over and the crowds had gone home. The girls wanted to bask in their victory IN THEIR OWN TIME.
    Let the girls celebrate the ultimate accomplishment in their field. Back off you bunch on hand-wringing, over-sensitive idiots.

  26. drinking molson’s is definitely the worst error ,but then it may well have been all that was available.as for the cigars, even Freud admitted that sometimes a cigar…is just a cigar
    get over it Rogge.

  28. Crude behaviour by Canucks. What’s the big deal?
    They only demonstrated how uncouth Canadians are on a daily basis.

  30. Lots of typical Canadian comments on here:
    “They can’t do that, they broke the RUUUUUULES!!!1!!!”
    Maybe if more people did that, we wouldn’t have these stupid laws, ya’think?
    Posted by jsvenson: “Crude behaviour by Canucks.”
    Having a beer and a smoke is crude now? Priceless.
    Just think; if that AP reporter wasn’t there, no one would know about this, and everyone would get on with their orderly, peaceful lives.

  31. These women are guilty only of being poor hosts.
    They would have blown a gasket if US Women would have celebrated in exactly the same manner, on that ice, in that city.
    And the world knows this.

  33. Well they played well and worked hard to bring home the gold so all I got to say is…
    WAY TO GO GIRLS AND PARTY HARD CAUSE YOU EARNED IT.

  34. “In spite of the fact that you’ve made statements that are completely false or totally irrelevant to the discussion, no one is calling you a dope.”
    Let’s hear which statement was false. My opinions might be against the grain, but I haven’t made any false statements.
    Another thing, when did women start playing olympic hockey? For that matter, when did hockey become an olympic sport? This is all very strange, and troubling.

  35. DanBC – sore loser comment?
    Not at all. Just stating the way it looks to others.
    Yet another classless act, Canada. It just fits in with the whole “We will Own The Podium” thing, and denying access to on-site facilities to non-canadian teams, until the last minute. Yup, class acts, all.
    Not ready for prime time, at all.
    Meanwhile, Sweden women win GOLD!

  36. really dp?
    Hockey’s been in the Olympics since the 1920 Summer Games, it moved to the Winter Games in 1924. In that 1924 series, Canada won its 5 games by a cumulative score of 110 – 3.

  37. By the looks of their positions, they have other things on their minds outside of the gold medal!!

  38. Congratulations to the ladies on Canada’s olympic hockey team for their gold medal win. You’ve done yourselves (and us) proud. Enjoy your victory.
    To all you finger-wagging prudes – what do you celebrate with – vinegar?

  39. In the men’s game, a kid from Aneroid, Saskatchewan (population 45), a kid from Carlyle (population 1260), Saskatchewan, and a kid from Regina, Saskatchewan make it in the big show and score the goals.

  40. The IOC, like the UN, is a gangster organization. If you want to talk about broken rules, then by all means investigate, but start at the top.
    [snip] I’m pretty sure that beer after a hockey game is a residency requirement in this country.
    Good on you girls. You took the gold much easier than I expected.
    Posted by: Mississauga Matt at February 26, 2010 7:12 PM
    MM gets the gold on this thread.
    Me? Well, I had two boycotts involuntarily broken this morning when I was waiting for my car to be serviced: being force-fed CTV AND the Olympics. I was stupified by the non-controversy, by how much time CTV devoted to it, the trumped up earnestness, the triviality that is part and parcel of the 24/7 “news” cycle. Yes, they shudda told IOC and everybody else to go pound salt. That wudda made me proud.
    “Un-ladylike”? LOL. That reminds me of my old man telling me, a pre-teen, that trampolining on my bed buck-naked was … immodest!
    It wasn’t: it was JOY — the same thing these young women were experiencing.

  41. “denying access to on-site facilities to non-canadian teams” jsvenson @ 10:11 pm
    Try and keep up, Svenson. That myth was dispelled the same day the Yanks started whining about it.

  43. Hey, that’s OUR culture. Any multi-culti pantywaists wanna disrespect our culture, which is equally as valid as all the other cultures?
    Or is it because they are WHITE chicks drinking Molson’s pony pee instead of not-white chicks drinking actual pony pee?
    Its been my opinion that the most heinous racists of all time are lefty multiculturalists.

  45. If only they’d had the presence of mind to sacrifice a goat, the AP would have left them alone.
    Posted by: Kate at February 26, 2010 4:41 PM
    Kate I think that makes a good point.
    Prince Iben Abad GoatFoucker

  46. Good lord, this is what shocks you guys? Cigars and champagne, after an Olympic Gold win?
    Party on, Waynette – ya earned it!

  47. p.s. if we keep doing things like this, maybe the world will start thinking Canadians are hardcore! And wouldn’t that be better than the way they think of us now?!
    p.p.s. if this little party they threw is so frightfully damaging to public morals, maybe the news networks shouldn’t have filmed and broadcast it.
    p.p.p.s. if they were boys, noone would have a problem with this.

  48. TJ, lighten up. They are adults. If you have a daughter that age, get used to it. She’s reached the age of consent and can make her own decisions. And if she’s a member of an olympic sports team on its way to a gold medal (fingers crossed), that right there is a good sign that you did a fine job of bringing her up.

  49. “They earned their medal; I’d rather not see them take this win as entitlement to flaunt the rules that the rest of us are asked to respect and follow.”
    Er.. what rules exactly? Where, in the Olympic charter does it say “No athlete shall consume alcohol after their event?”. Why does every professional sport tape down the locker rooms before the game ends? Does anyone here actually think that the Canadian women’s training regime includes obligatory beer guzzling and cigar smoking after every practice?
    Like many here, I’ve played thousands of games of pickup hockey. The only argument after the game was about the beer: was it Molson’s (Canada’s oldest brewer, now absorbed by an international), or Labatt’s (Canada’s 2nd oldest brewer, now absorbed by an international)? The idea of not beer never entered into the equation.
    For many of these young women, this will be the greatest moment of their lives: winning an Olympic gold medal at home in front of their families, friends, and fans. I wish them every bit of happiness. I hope that when the shade comes, as it must come to us all, that all of these women are blessed with a moment when they may recapture, for a fleeting second, their youth, their beauty, and their exuberance. They’ve earned it, they deserve it, and I for one, will not begrudge them an iota of it.
    Indeed: You go, girls!

  50. At the risk of piling on:
    Jenny kissed me when we met,
    Jumping from the chair she sat in.
    Time, you thief! who love to get
    Sweets into your list, put that in.
    Say I’m weary, say I’m sad;
    Say that health and wealth have missed me;
    Say I’m growing old, but add-
    Jenny kissed me!

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