To play hockey for Canada in these Olympics is profane work with a sacred purpose - The Globe and Mail

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Canada's Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby paired up at the 4 Nations Face-Off in February for Team Canada. They'll be reunited in Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics. GRAHAM HUGHES/THE CANADIAN PRESS Listen to this article Learn more about audio Log in or create a free account to listen to this article. Few things speak more clearly to this country’s hockey dominance than the shoddiness of its showmanship. Hockey Canada released Team Canada’s 25-man roster at noon on Wednesday. The ceremony – and I hesitate to give it such a grand name – consisted of team GM Doug Armstrong running through a list of people to thank, while a couple of hacks from Hockey Canada looked on uncomfortably from those strange little high chairs they make people sit on at press conferences. They did make a video. Not a good video, but a video. In it, the names of the lucky two dozen were read out by cute, but incredibly serious, kids in full equipment. Zero smiles. Zero fun. Zero pizzazz. This was the mumblecore o

Open this photo in gallery: Canada's Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby paired up at the 4 Nations Face-Off in February for Team Canada. They'll be reunited in Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account Few things speak more clearly to this country’s hockey dominance than the shoddiness of its showmanship. Hockey Canada released Team Canada’s 25-man roster at noon on Wednesday. The ceremony – and I hesitate to give it such a grand name – consisted of team GM Doug Armstrong running thro

To play hockey for Canada in these Olympics is profane work with a sacred purpose - The Globe and Mail

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