Woe Canada.
Whoa, Canada.
D’Oh Canada.
Or, simply: No Canada.
Take your pick of the catchy phrases being tossed around for the past week or so, they all add up to the same thing — the NHL playoffs will begin on Wednesday without a single Canadian team in action for the first time since 1970.
A hockey industrial complex that normally kicks into overdrive in this country at this time of year — driving everything from beer sales to TV sales to pizza deliveries — will instead grind to a halt as Hockey Nation ponders life without hockey for the next two months.