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Think of the payoffs with no teams to cheer in playoffs

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.