Deppert.se

The latest days, weeks and months, the only thing that has been talked about on the sport pages is Mats Sundin. Because, yes, finally, he has joined the Vancouver Canucks team! And no, I am not in love with ice hockey, but living in Canada, you do not really have any choice. Even at my jobs, both coffee shops are run by ’foreigners’ who have been living here for approximately 10-15 years, ice hockey is the great theme of the day. Topics range from ’Did you see the game yesterday?’, ’I knew that Canada would beat Sweden in the Junior World Championship, you Swedes are just not good enough’ to ’Sundin has joined the Canucks!!’. Ironically, I have heard the two last statements from the same person.

And whenever I say that I am from Sweden, all male customers automatically start listing all the Swedish ice hockey players that play in Canadian or American teams. And I am not really interested anyway, but have started to learn all the names…and being not interested has not really been an argument for TV. Because now that Sundin has joined the Vancouver team, the provincial channel will of course make a show called ’The Sundin Show’ and has already showed so many interviews, that even I have not missed anything on Sundins professional life.

Of course, teasing Canadians for loving their ice hockey is a really amusing thing to do. I think that is what has kept me alive during the whole Sundin news. Nonetheless, I know it will only get worse – because Sundin will play his first game with the Canucks tonight and that will probably cause another wave of ice hockey fanatics to approach this ‘Swedish’ girl and demand insightful comments about ice hockey. I will not give in though; serving their coffee faster is the best answer!

Cheers,
Ulrike

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