Following on from Char's post, I think it's fitting that Oliver's first experience playing hockey happened to be on what CBC calls, for all those Americans in the family who may not know, hockey day in Canada. I think it started only a few years ago where the NHL schedules all 6 Canadian teams playing in one day. CBC broadcasts all the games and has special programmes running throughout the day about how hockey is celebrated in Canada.
For no particular reason (ie we didn't even know it was hockey day in Canada earlier) Char, Oliver and I all decided to go skating today at a nearby rink and like good dedicated outdoor hockey people, shovelled the snow off the rink before we skated on it. We weren;t really sure how Oliver would respond to hockey given our failures in trying to get into football / soccer at all in the UK (Nana and Grampa will remember him making them pass the ball to each other while he sat comfortably on the sidelines and was a good spectator last time they visited us in Aberdeen) but we were pleasantly surprised how intent he was on getting the puck in the net once he realised that was the object of the game. When we tried to convince him to go get some hot chocolate after he had been shooting the puck in the net over and over for a half hour he only replied with, "maybe later" and kept shooting for at least another half hour. So with the influence of other kids and families out skating on hockey day in Canada it looks as though we just may have one more family member who will be hooked on a great tradition for years to come.
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All the street hockey adventures in Belgravia are now ready to be passed on down to another generation!! Way to go little Oliver!
my favorite is when a car would drive up during street hockey and you'd have to move the net and say 'car' then 'play on!'
Little Oliver is surprising - born a Scot, but still a Canadian deep down.
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