@singlemaltgirl
Ahhh in that case, move to wales, we’ve got pretty coastlines. And I promise you’ll never see the Sun! 😂 and it’s always raining!
Which coast are you moving to? Sounds exciting!
My boy is 8 (also have a 10 yr old daughter - who I take to football tomorrow!)

@VaKnow22 i do love wales. it's very pretty. & i have seen the sun there. i love the beaches. & the tramping about.

i'm in 🇨🇦. moving back to the west coast. i've been in alberta (ie the conservative hell hole of 🇨🇦) for several years. time to go home.

oh, both kids in football then! nice. what's the rest of your weekend like?

@singlemaltgirl
Ah west coast Canada looks incredible. Don’t know much about Alberta except for the Battle of Alberta (oilers v flames?) and huge oil fields? (Correct me if I’m making all that up!)

Yeah both kids love football, I can’t stand it 🤣
And I’m my daughters coach!! 🤦‍♂️(No one else wanted to do it!- it’s a rugby town!)

@VaKnow22

you do know alberta. why!??!?! but yes, you got that right. the only province w/ 2 hockey teams. wait. not true. ontario has 2 as well but we don't talk about them. lol.

yes, & the home of oil & gas. don't get me started.

that's hilarious that you dont like football but you're the coach. good dad! i use to coach my son but that was v-ball.

do you play rugby then - if you're in a rugby town?

@singlemaltgirl
I’m a big hockey fan (NYrangers, sorry!) but almost no-one watches it in Wales, although we do have a team - Cardiff Devils. So that’s how I knew a little about Alberta!

I haven’t played rugby since Covid interrupted everything. And at 35 feel I should probably stop anyway! Plus I wasn’t particularly good! 😂
Who’s your hockey team then?

@VaKnow22 oh wow! i don't know many uk hockey fans. that's impressive. we'll give you a pass on liking an american hockey team (wtf is that about?!??!) 😂

does the uk have a hockey league? or do the devils play in an eu league?

35 is young. after 40 is when the healing seems to take a fucking long time 😜

what positions do your kids play? the 10 yr old must have a position. the 8 yr old...they may not be there yet, right?

@singlemaltgirl
There is a British league. Cardiff Devils over the last 5 years tend to win it. We are essentially about 3 British players surrounded by a tonne of Canadians!

We play in European competitions but that’s a much higher standard. We played the Swedish champions and they absolutely buried us!!

Ok so I picked NYR because I figured it was geographically about the closest to me. Plus my ex at the time agreed that we’d go to NY, and I could watch a game. In the end we never went! 🤦‍♂️

@VaKnow22 so i think your break up was telling you something. you should change teams. just sayin'...😜

i would imagine the eu league would be tough. there's the swedes & then all the former ussr teams & so on. & you all don't have snow, they do. practicing as a kid on frozen ponds & lakes does make a diff i think :)

@singlemaltgirl
Yeah you might be right. I mean she picked Calgary Flames?!?! 😬

Yeah it snows here every 5 years or so! The Swedes, Finns, Austrians are all amazing!

You’re absolutely right, midfield is no glory! Except my daughter is lazy so doesn’t even do the running around!!!

“Positions smositions”… I feel like you’ve listened to my half time team talk! 😂

@VaKnow22 well, she told you she wasn't a keeper, right there. who the fuck chooses the flames when they don't live in calgary??!?! 😂 😜

well, if i were your daughter, i'd likely do the same. it's a good vantage point to watch the game from...lol.

ha!

@singlemaltgirl
Ha ha, the warning signs were there!!

Yeah, she’s a smart cookie! Just waits for the ball!

So what’s you team? Canucks?

@VaKnow22 don't laugh. but i was a habs fan for years. and the oilers before i moved here. but they kept trading all my players. & i got pissed off. i'm about loyalty. & if you don't show the players who got you to where you are any loyalty, i can't be bothered.

my man plays rec hockey. but he complains he's getting old. ha ha. i can watch hockey wherever i just have better things to do w/ my time. & i'd rather play sports than watch it, ya know?

@singlemaltgirl
Ha ha! Habs! Better off supporting anyone else (except the flames!!)
Yeah I agree, except I have no desire to play hockey. Rugby is tough enough, let alone arming your opponents with sticks!!

@VaKnow22 nope. in 🇨🇦 the most reviled of hockey teams is the toronto maple leafs. their fans are mocked endlessly. they are a joke in every sense of the word. even if they were to win, they're still losers. 😂

oh, i don't play hockey. i can't skate to save my life. but i like to play tennis or go hiking or kayaking (things i haven't been able to do here really) i used to play field hockey & lots of vball which i did until the pandemic hit.

@singlemaltgirl

Hey, 👋 I live 60 miles from the big old T. You could have had a big old fight on your hands....if you were wrong. 😂 We know we're hated. We wear it as a badge of pride and honour. 😉 The mockery is built in, I guess. 🤷‍♀️
@VaKnow22

@Krysdammit @VaKnow22

but you know, the senators aren't reviled or hated in the same way. & while we all love to dog pile quebec, there's plenty of hab fans.

i really do think it's a toronto thing. i have no idea why. well, i can guess...🤔

@singlemaltgirl

They haven't won the Stanley Cup in more than 50 years. that's #1. We've decided that the owners hold on to the team for a tax write off. That's the only sensible explanation for the studity with which that team is run.
Used to go to Habs games when I lived in Montreal. The hatred between the Leafs & Habs is real.
@VaKnow22

@Krysdammit well the canucks have never won a cup. they're not hated like them. so i dunno. but i have heard the disdain w/ which torontonians view the leafs' ownership. it is kind of sad.

& why the fuck do owners get tax writeoffs for owning nhl teams?!?!?!? riddle me that one, batman. sigh.

@VaKnow22

@singlemaltgirl
Toronto itself is hated from coast to coast to coast. They got laughed at when a blizzard blanketed the city a few years ago and they called the Army in to help. My sis sent me pictures of her house, taken from the inside because the 2nd storey windows were completely covered in snow. And they got mocked.
@VaKnow22

@Krysdammit

well, i'd never mock a natural disaster, diff cities are built for diff types of weather. 5 inches of snow in van would cripple the city & be a snow day. in edm, we get 2 feet & it's biz as normal. but if it rained here like it does in van? we would be fucked. it's why climate change is causing such chaos. we built our infrastructure based on known weather patterns....

but i digress.

we do all hate to. b/c they think they're the centre of the universe & mindset. 😜

@VaKnow22

@singlemaltgirl
Oh and the first bit of hockey I saw was in an episode of Friends and they go watch the rangers!

Daughter is midfield, son is a roaming anything, like you said - no idea of position!! 😂

@VaKnow22 ha ha. that's funny. hockey is so ubiquitous here, i think we know it as babies. it just seeps into us. i couldn't tell you how old i was when i first saw a game on tv. but was young.

ah, the little guy will eventually get it. at this point, it's a bit of running around & having fun. positions smositions.

daughter in midfield uh? i just think that's a lot of running for no fucking glory. just sayin'...😜