Let’s have a look at the Boxing Day Guide. Everything you need to know about Boxing Day in Canada - sales, hockey, parades, charity and family time.
Do people have lots of Christmas enthusiasm still brimming that they wear Santa outfits on Boxing Day during “family time?” Are their ugly sweaters tucked back in the drawer for another year? Is the Elf on a different Shelf or has it been stuffed in a drawer?
I wonder if we’ve been taken over by British English on the Internet. The word “jumper” keeps coming up as though we are sitting in an English living room wearing jumpers rather than sweaters on Boxing Day. Doesn’t it bring home the Mark Carney command to use British English in the Budget Document. The Globe and Mail has joined the rebellion led by the Editors Association. Could that be more important on Boxing Day in Canada than hockey?
How many hockey games might be played on Boxing Day? Who knows that answer? One is only shown the NHL season information (pages and pages of it) so I can’t find out how many hockey games there might be in Canada on a special day or in a year.
Here’s something: One can find out how many registered hockey players there are - 40,000 in Toronto alone. A registered hockey player is someone whose details are officially entered into a governing body’s database. That makes me think of children in hockey leagues. The oldest registered active hockey player is Mark Sertich playing at the age of 96, and the oldest active recreational player is Art Quigg who is 89 and lives in London, Ontario. Mark lives in the U.S. so he won’t be in a Boxing Day game, but Art could be in London. Maybe he’ll get his picture in the Globe and Mail.
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