Tonight’s the night as Team Canada will Face Team USA for all the marbles at the 4 Nations Face-Off in Boston!
Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia’s Brad Marchand will be playing on his Boston Bruins home ice in a game that’s being billed by many as the biggest since Cole Harbour’s Sidney Crosby scored “The Golden Goal” for Canada over the US in Vancouver in February 2010.
(Above: Nathan MacKinnon with Brad Marchand at the Jrdan Boyd Celebrity Hockey Tournament in Bedford.)
It’s been so much fun watching our stars from here in Nova Scotia represent Canada on the World stage in this best-on-best tournament.
(Above: Brad Marchand’s Championship banner at St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon and Brad and Nathan’s NHL jerseys.)
Here’s a fun stat, in the last forty years since 1984 in championship games between Canada and USA, Canada has won them all, except for the 1996 World Cup game, I yelled at my TV a lot that day.
So tonight, it’s the rematch that we all wanted. Secondary market tickets for tonight are priced at $1,500 to $2,000 upper bowl at the TD Garden in Beantown, to lower bowl against the glass around $8,000. to$10,000. per ticket!
(Above: Sid and Ian at the Nova Scotia Showdown October 2, 2023, in Halifax.)
Go Canada Go and good luck to our three Nova Scotians! Wouldn’t it be great to hear this call on an all-Nova Scotia goal? “Marchand to MacKinnon to Crosby, and he scores!!!”
-Ian
(Credits: Ian Robinson photos. Blog cover picture of Nate, Sid and Brad, an Ian gift for Father’s Day 2018 from the Los Angeles All Star game.)
