Canuck

  Monday, 31 May 2004

PEI fans dazzled by Lightning < 4:16:56 PM>.

[GAM-National] 'The 20-year-old is cheering on big brother Brad, the Lightning star centre, as is everyone else in Prince Edward Island -- the only province, arguably to a person, rooting against the Calgary Flames in the Stanley Cup finals. The Flames, who lead the series 2-1, may be Canada's adopted team, but PEI has embraced the Lightning.

Home for the Richards family is this postcard-pretty fishing village that boasts 350 residents, the best bar clams in the Maritimes and a Conn Smythe Trophy candidate.'

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[GAM-National] '[Gauthier] signed up for service. And now, on June 6, 1944, after years of training and waiting, he joined in the vast assault on the northern coast of France. Pte. Gauthier scrambled across the beach and progressed inland the same day. Pausing in a field near the village of Bernières, he saw some French civilians approach.

They began speaking to the Allied soldiers in English, calling them Tommies, the slang for British soldiers. The civilians were stunned when the soldiers responded.

"We started answering questions in French. They said 'Vous êtes français!' I said, 'Absolument, on est des Canadiens-Français.' They were flabbergasted."'

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The Calgary Flames emerged from years of lackluster skating to become the first Canadian ice hockey club to make the Stanley Cup finals in a decade. [New York Times: International]