Hansen signs deal

al . Josh Martin
Editor

T= Vancouver Canucks recently

"Tesi salary arbitration with

Danish winger Jannik Hansen by
signing him to a three-year deal worth
US$4.05-million. The 25 year-old scored
nine goals last year and added 20 assists

in 82 games which marked his career high
of 29 points. However, those numbers
don’t exactly do him justice as he has
proven that he is one of the top defensive
forwards in the line-up next to Ryan
Kesler, the Selke Trophy winner.

This fall, look for Hansen to be
playing some big minutes, perhaps even
on the second line, with Mason Raymond
out of the line-up and Mikael Samuelsson
coming off an injury as well.

 

 

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By Josh Martin, Sports Editor

eturning to Vancouver after a two
R= affair of visiting various

countries has brought me a sense
of respect and understanding to the
different sports that are being worshipped
around the world other than ice hockey.
Key word in the end of that statement
is ice hockey and not just hockey. Over
in Wales, often when I was. discussing
the sport to fellow Welsh and English
students, the conversation would go on
for quite a while before I would see the
look of confusion run across their faces
as if we were talking about two totally
different sports. However, in reality we
actually were. Unless ‘ice’ is thrown
in front of the term ‘hockey’, everyone
assumes to that the topic of discussion is
field hockey instead.

There is no ice hockey in Wales,
which I found to be incredibly unusual
since it’s practically a religion in Canada.
There’s not even a local ice arena for
people to enjoy skating in the winter
time. It just doesn’t exist.

The primary sport in Wales has
traditionally been rugby; however
football (soccer) has increasingly
become more and more popular over
the years, which has sparked a bit of
a rivalry between the respected sports
players. Often I would here snickering
and bantering at the local pubs and the
Student Union at the University of Wales
in Carmarthen in the midst of all the beer
drinking and snooker playing. It was
quite amusing.

While making a weekend trip
to Bristol, England, my friends and
I were lucky enough to experience

 

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National sports around the world

 

the Manchester United vs. Barcelona
championship football game on May 28
in a good ol’ local English pub. The place
was absolutely packed to the brim with
TV’s on every wall and drinks in every
hand. In order to grab a seat and enjoy
the match we ended up having to mosey
on upstairs through crowds of people and
into an extended room that many of us
didn’t even know existed. From then on it
was all smiles. ,

Everyone in the pub was on the edge
of their seats screaming and yelling as
the game progressed. And even though
the final score was 3-1 in favour of
Barcelona, it was a great experience to be
a part of an atmosphere in a culture that
loves football just as much as Canada
loves hockey.

At one point during the match a
friend of mine leaned in and told me
that this final championship game is
comparable to game seven of the Stanley
Cup Finals (I’m sure we don’t need a
reminder of how that turned out), which
really put the game into perspective.
There was no way a soccer match at a
local pub in Vancouver would gather a
crowd this large in quantity, which made
me think of what kind of other sports are
the national pastimes in their respected
countries.

Here is a list of some National sports
around the world:

Canada — Lacrosse (Summer), Hockey
(Winter), United States — Baseball,
Australia — Cricket, Gambia —
Wrestling, Wales — Rugby, England

— Football, South Korea — Tae Kwon

Do, Russia — Chess, Ice Hockey, China —
Table Tennis,

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