EDMONTON
Covering playoff hockey in Canada is different than covering it anyplace else. For one thing, you wake up on April 14 and it is snowing.
Not just flurries, either. Big fat snowflakes, the size of Celine Dion’s fake eyelashes. Just to reference another Canadian tradition.
The snow continued to fall all day Friday leading up to Game 2 of the Sharks-Oilers playoff series.
“That threw me for a loop,” said Sharks winger Joel Ward..
This comment was surprising because Ward grew up in Toronto. Which I believe is in, you know, Canada. But it seems even Ward was surprised and charmed when he opened his drapes to see downtown Edmonton blanketed in soft white.