Last event of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Men’s Ice Hockey final.
Anybody who doesn’t comprehend how important hockey is to Canadians simply needs to watch this commercial.
The Canada vs. USA game which happened earlier in the non-elimination rounds attracted over 10 million Canadian television viewers. That’s almost a third of the population. This game will almost certainly smash that record. How high could it go? 12 million? 15 million?
There’s a hilarious soundbite on the video montage here where a Canadian couple are interviewed at a Canadian hockey game.
“Better than your wedding day?” the BBC interviewer asks.
The wife and husband hesitates for a moment, then they both shrug and go, “Yeeeaaaahh!”
Okay. Puck drops off in two minutes.