Go! Canucks go! Now’s your chance

Dear Editor:

The Vancouver Canuck’s six foot, six inch Swedish goaltender, Jacob Marksmon and their Swedish sharpshooter, Elias Pettersson are leading Canada’s lone hope to end our country’s nearly 30year famine of winning Lord Stanley’s Cup.

The Stanley Cup is said to be the toughest trophy to win in all of team sports.

This year’s Cup is being played in a bubble, with the Western teams playing all their games in Edmonton while the Eastern teams play all their games in Toronto.

The settings are stress filled: no wife or girlfriend, no kids, no extended family, no buddies and no hometown fans.

There will be six more weeks of this stressful playoff hockey after this series is finished.

At the time of this writing, the present series is tied one game apiece. I looked up the make-up of both teams and found some surprises to me.

The Canucks have 12 Canadian-born players and 11 American-born players as well as five Swedish-born players, one Finnish-born and one Frenchman on their roster.

The Golden Knights have 18 Canadianborn players, 10 American-born players as well as two Swedish-born and one Czechborn player.

In the last game, that the Canucks won 5-2, the shots on goal favoured the Golden Knights 40-27, so don’t be surprised if Canadian veteran, Marc-Andre Fleury is in the nests for Las Vegas, in the next game.

Fleury, a former No. 1 pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins, has won more games for the Golden Knights than any other goaltender.

Go Canucks, Go! This is your year to win the Cup for Canada. Do it! Leo “Puckshot” Jacques,

Kelowna