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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">hockey</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;All across the country, on frozen backyard ponds, community rinks and in state-of-the-art arenas, Canadians are playing and watching our national sport: hockey.</li> <li>] The game is invariably tied to our collective sense of what it means to be Canadian and is perhaps our most identifiable icon.</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;teamwork, resourcefulness, tenacity, humility and triumph -- are the principles Canadians try to uphold on the world stage, and as individuals.</li> <li>] All hockey season long, fans gather around televisions at home or in pubs to watch "the national drama" unfold. And it only intensifies when the playoffs begin.</li> <li>] Special games, such as the Winter Olympics or the 1972 Summit Series, are even more cause for excitement. In 2002, more than 6 million Canadians tuned in to see the women's hockey team win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics; 10 million tuned in to see the men's team do the same three days later.</li> <li><em>&ldquo;The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places -- the school, the church and the skating-rink -- but our real life was on the skating-rink</em></li> <ol> <li>Roch Carrier, <em>The Hockey Sweater</em></li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://www.canadianliving.com/life/community/hockey_culture.php" target="_blank">http://www.canadianliving.com/life/community/hockey_culture.php</a></li> </ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>