Can-Am recaptures Canadian dominance over U.S.

Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2010 in Sports | 0 comments

This year’s Can-Am hockey game was unlike past years of the event for a few reasons. The game took place at the LEC for the first time and the environment couldn’t have been any different. With the feeling of being in a small-barn gone, the players were left to decide the outcome of TWU’s most anticipated and supported hockey game on campus.

The game itself was interesting at some parts and slow during the others. This year’s squad of Canadian women appeared well practiced, skilled, and even tough. Numerous hits throughout the night landed the American men on their butts, leaving the men looking up from the ground, asking themselves, “What just happened?” Not only did the Canadian women dominate the game physically, the also dominated the scoreboard. Canada won the game 6-1 and left little chance for the Americans all night to showcase their depressing lack hockey talent.
With fans dressing up in unique and thought perplexing attire, the overall event was a complete success, continuing TWUSA’s tradition of putting on this fabulous event.

Jill Forsyth, one of team Canada’s many scorers, described her goal, a snipe into the top corner of the net, as shocking. “It felt like the greatest thing ever! One of those moments where you are shocked at yourself for somehow pulling it off, yet had so much adrenaline running through your body you didn’t know what to do! I just started screaming I was so amazed.”

While Forsyth along with many other fellow Canadian women dominated the score sheet, the game was not without some aggressive behaviour. A plethora of “lumberjack slashes” took to the American men’s ankles, while jaw-dropping open ice hits stunned the crowd. To add into the excitement, the physical play did not end there, as Merissa Ratzlaff and Tyler Jacobson even dropped
the gloves.

Overall, another wild game, another wild outcome, just another Can-Am.