...OK, but just a fair warning; Nova Scotia Summer is basically a Northern Florida Winter...and Winter in Northern NS is basically just John Carpenter's THE THING without the shape-shifting alien (hopefully), so Be Prepared!!...
...oh, and EVERYONE here is of Celtic ancestory, so prepare yourself for the PALE-EST people in North America...
My ancestry is Chinese. I don't know what you're talking about.
Also, I was born and raised in Arizona, thanks to my Chinese grandfather running away from the Chinese civil war/second Sino-Japanese war to the United States. We don't know much other than hot weather (and often humid since we come from the province of Fujian). A large portion of the world's population doesn't give much of a hoot about this "daylight savings time" thing either. We come from nearer to the equator. You can pretend like cold weather and snow is "okay" all you want, but millennia of history describes people trying to get away from it.
...which is why I'll never leave here...been all around the World when I was in the military and I've discovered one very important thing; if the cold & snow keeps the vast amount of the idiots of Society away, all the more reason to stay...
I love the crisp, refreshing, cool air, up here in Canada...............I couldn't live without it.....My ancestry is Chinese. I don't know what you're talking about.
Also, I was born and raised in Arizona, thanks to my Chinese grandfather running away from the Chinese civil war/second Sino-Japanese war to the United States. We don't know much other than hot weather (and often humid since we come from the province of Fujian). A large portion of the world's population doesn't give much of a hoot about this "daylight savings time" thing either. We come from nearer to the equator. You can pretend like cold weather and snow is "okay" all you want, but millennia of history describes people trying to get away from it.
...you know what I'm gonna post here, right??...
...I kid...I kid...
Yeah, I know. I've made no indication about me being "medically blind" (according to the US military) and still pursuing a career as an on-ice official.
The problem with officiating in general, according to NHL fans, starts from the ground up though. We're taught "game management" in our second year, and that permeates to the NHL level. NHL referees manage the game according to their instructions. I think they do a great job of it. If your problem with officiating is that you object to the "game management" philosophy of officiating, well, it's easy enough to attack the top, but that's not where you should be focusing your efforts. USA Hockey and Hockey Canada teach it from the ground up, and that's where pretty much all NHL officials come from.
I'm obviously biased, but my underlying philosophy in life, being an Arizona (Phoenix) native is that winter sports are awesome, but you just go somewhere else to do it, then come home to your relatively warm climate afterwards. You can always go not that far north to a ski resort on a day trip, and be home by night. Likewise, hockey is an awesome "winter" sport, but you can do it all indoors on artificially-frozen ice rinks, year round, and escape the "harsh cold" (lulz) of the ice rink by going back outside into 115F degree July heat. You don't need to live there to participate in it. It's kind of bunk in that regard. I'd also probably dump some tea into a harbor if I had to live there myself.
...sorry we disturbed the emptiness of the GDT with conversation...
...as an apparent Pearl Jam fan, I'll allow it...
No favors for you, you couldn't even beat Toronto.
Well they paid off the refs... so we didn't have a chance.
...absolutely shyttin' the bed in the 1st didn't help, either...
