Here’s an email I just received about the hockey game today. I thought all the Canadians & Americans living in London would want to know where to go.
Have FUN! Oh, and GO CANADA!
USA v Canada Olympic ICE HOCKEY & BBQ
Game Starts 8:15 TONIGHT
http://www.meetup.com/americansabroad/calendar/12728580/When TONIGHT Sunday, Feb 28th dorrs open 7:00 pm
Where
Bodeans BBQ
16 Byward Street
Tower Hill, EC3R 5BA
London
Tube: Tower Hill, Aldgate, Aldgate EastFor the second time since NHL players began participating in the Olympics, Canada will face the United States in the gold medal game.
This is just too good to let pass by without a meetup. This Sunday the two North American national teams face off for gold in Olympic Ice Hockey finals in North America. We’ve booked out Bodeans Tower Hill for the occasion.
As you all know we are a North Americans cultural social group, 25% of our membership is Canadian. I expect lots of people in both Red, White and Blue and Maple Leafs!
Olympics host nation Canada beat Slovakia today 3-2 to set up a finals hockey re-match, this time for the gold with preliminary-round conquerors, the USA. Canada is now in gold double figures and top of the gold league with 10 gold medals for the Games, one more than Germany and two more than both the USA and Norway.
Team USA had booked their place in tomorrow’s gold metal final earlier in the day by rolling past Finland 6-1. In reality the Canadian game has lost none of its luster, it’s just that American Ice Hockey professionalism has come a long way over the last 15 years. For Team USA, a victory will be its first Olympic gold medal in Ice Hockey since the “Miracle on Ice” super-amazing game against the Soviets 30 years ago.
It’s all to play for as Canadian national pride is on the line with the national game, which was invented in Canada being played on home soil. The Can/Am Womens Ice Hockey match the other day was hard fought between Women’s Team USA (who still retain the title of World Champions) and an absolutely electric national victory for the Canadians, with Prime Minister Harper and Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky in attendance.
This is the grudge match to end all N.A. grudge matches, so keep it polite! Join us for chicken wings, nachos and the best game of Ice Hockey this decade!
You cannot miss this one. See you there!
Gold Silver Bronze Total
1. United States 8 14 13 35
2. Germany 10 11 7 28
3. Canada 12 7 4 23Special Note: the downstairs area is being opened just for us, and will be serving drinks all night. If you want food it will only be served upstairs.
RSVP
http://www.meetup.com/americansabroad/calendar/12728580/