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Whe Ss standing on guard for our national fight song?

Andrew

‘McCredie _

ght in Canada has, among.

“other things, earned me a
". Scout badge. —

; ‘While Tcan’t recall the exact ‘
badge (History, I think), I vividly
remember a late afternoon in June
Jong ago when I recited the words
-:to O Canada in a half-lit church

“basement, my knees knocking

“. together below my pathfinder
shorts. And though it was a much °
more nervous experience than it
was S patriotic, the place I learned

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the words to the national anthem
epitomizes Canada.

Saturday nights in Don Mills
meant the Maple Leafs (or better
yet, the Canadiens) on CBC, and
for me during those formative years
that meant Dave Keon, Jim Dorey

‘and Peter Puck. And in retrospect,

oddly enough, the latter of those...
hockey legends played the largest
role during my badge-hungry days.
Along with thousands of other flan-
nel-clad youngsters, I was herded

> off to bed following the second '

intermission and Peter Puck’s ani-
mated ice-capades. Years later I
would read of similar deprivation
techniques on laboratory rats, yet
Pavlov’s finding rang true — in
light of this parent-dictated hockey
interruptus, 1 made sure that I

_absorbed every second of the

broadcast, starting with, that’s
right, the Nsticiial Anthem.

‘While I don’t buy into this
younger-generation-has-no-oppor-
tunities bunk, I do offer that scouts-
in-waiting today are being ill-
served by current NHL broadcast-
ers; Witness last Saturday night’s
Vancouver-San Jose game. About

the time Richard Loney was belt-

ing out that “Standing on guard”
and “Rockets red glare” stuff, we at
home were subjected to footage of
a Great White shark attacking a
cage interspersed with a helicopter
fly-by shot of the rugged B.C.
coast. The video montage was
deemed a better opening sequence
than the national anthem by the
production team at the CBC (as in
Canadian Broadcasting Company).
But the Mother Corp. is not
alone in snubbing our anthem.
BCTV, a sometime carrier of
Canuck games, prefers to slot pro-
gramming into the time the
Coliseum faithful are on their feet.
“There will be times we don’t
run it because the NHL time sched-
ule of a game dictates that we
can’t,” says BCTV senior producer
Henry Irizawa. (The two games
shown by BCTV this season did

not include the national anthem.)

Irizawa adds that one-and-a-half
minutes are required for the
Canadian fight song, and frankly.
“we would rather use that time for
other prograrnming.” In other
_ words, paid commercial spots.

Oh well. I guess it’s time for a

~ commercial jingle scout badge.

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