Seventy-five times in the past 84 years, the military academies of Canada and the United States have met at their residences and then on the ice, greeting each other as equals before squaring off in a hockey game.
It's a tradition dating as far as 1923, one that has been interrupted only by the Second World War.
Until now.
by James Mirtle @ 9:05 PM
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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a senior editor with McKeen's Hockey and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.
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I've never understood why "camaraderie-building weekends" include things like a tae kwon do tournament or playing a sometimes violent sport like hockey. Wouldn't it be better to take them all to a strip club or a casino? No one gets a concussion and everybody's friends.
RMC's really had some egg on its face over this.
Now those privates from the Royal Regina Rifles will have to go back to KP duty.
From the Ottawa Sun:
That's in part because RMC recently relaxed the eligibility requirements for its team, allowing reservists and civilian grads to play...
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