Game 2 and Game 3 Quick Recaps (Dallas Stars National Anthem Edition)
By Richard Eriksson on April 16, 2007 - 2:24pm
Game 2 wasn't a lot of fun from a Vancouver Canucks fan's perspective: seeing Turco shut us out and the opposing team dominate the home team so thoroughly for at least 2 periods was frustrating to watch. Same goes for Game 3 in Dallas: I fully expected the Stars to shut the Canucks down after they scored on the power play, but at least they pulled it out with a Jan Bulis garbage goal and Taylor Pyatt's easy one. (Turco should have had it, but I'll take it.) In both overtime games I chose Jeff Cowan to win it, and was wrong both times.
This must have been the first game played in Dallas where I heard the national anthem sung: as the Canucks LJ community notes, the fans scream out "Stars!" any time the word appears in "The Star Spangled Banner". A quick search finds an article about singing the national anthem with what to expect at some stadiums. (Also, it did not originate in Minnesota like I first wondered.) In Baltimore, apparently, before an Orioles baseball game, the fans scream out "Oh!" at the appropriate places. Cheesy? Not any more cheesy than the Canucks fans singing when Mark Donnelly holds the microphone out. Disrespectful? Maybe, but it's not really my call, since it's not the national anthem for the country which I call myself a citizen of. If fans screamed "SUCKS!" after "Canada" during our national anthem, I'd find that disrespectful. But calling out the team name if it appears in it? Sounds like fun to me.
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