A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.
When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.
Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.