>>>>>Last night I took my kids (who are really grown up girls) to their first Bruins game. The bad news is that Bruins lost (it is ok, this is not their year).
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>>>>>Another "bad" news is that I got hit in my arm by a stray puck (good shot by a Bruin). And I got to keep the puck (the attached picture is to prove it) :)
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>>>>They were aiming for the goal, and hit you instead? Is that considered a GOOD shot?
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>>>>Probably the Canucks would think so, the way they've been playing this year.
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>>>Interesting is that the puck is made in Canada. That was surprising; I thought everything is made in China :) (and I agree that Bruins are not at the top of the game this year).
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>>I imagined hockey pucks being made in Chine (the usual cheap plastic stuff) :). Every shot would be shattering the puck to small pieces. They would have to start making hockey sticks in China too; to match them to the plastic pucks :)
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>About half-century ago, the joke used to be "made in Japan"


I used to ride motorcycles a lot. When the Japanese motorbikes first came over they were called "jap crap" the tyres where called "bridgestone nylons" because they didn't stick to the road. The bikes improved very quickly as the Japanese redesigned and improved quality and invested heavily in production equipment. The British bike industry sat back and watched a few years later virtually had disappeared as the Japanese bikes where better in every way.