Heartwarming Video: Canadian hockey fans finish Star Spangled Banner after singer’s mic cuts out

Hotair ^ | 11/21/2014 | Guy Benson

[SeekAndFind]

We interrupt this week’s deluge of executive amnesty and Grubergate coverage to bring you this heartwarming Friday afternoon palate cleanser. First, some brief background, from HuffPo:

They may be our biggest rivals on the ice, but when it comes to honouring our American neighbours, Canadians don’t pass up on the opportunity to chime in. The video, filmed Nov. 18, shows the opening of the Toronto Maple Leafs vs. the Nashville Predators hockey game. When Canadian singer Michelle Madeira began the American national anthem, her microphone failed. So what did the Canadian crowd do? They picked up right where she left off.

They sure did, and impressively so:

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They had the lyrics down pat and didn’t miss a beat. Stirring stuff. Show of hands: How many of you know the words to the Canadian national anthem? I happen to, but that’s mostly a product of being exposed to it so many times as a hockey fan (go Devils). I’ll leave you with this clip from an NHL game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers just after the terrorist shootings in Ottawa last month. Even though a Canadian team wasn’t competing on the ice, the pregame ceremony featured a moving rendition of ‘O Canada’, with the American crowd singing along (admittedly with lyrics displayed on the jumbotron) in solidarity with our great friends and neighbors to the north:

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We stand on guard for thee!

[MomofMarine]

Celena Ray always does a good job IMO.

[Jamestown1630]

This is a lovely thread.

I, too, will be brushing-up on ‘O Canada’.

Thanks to the people in Canada for their thoughtfulness, and to the Freepers for the posts on this thread.

-JT

[Peter Libra]

I cannot think why, but this old lad who is well aware of the history of Fort Henry, got teary eyed. This is of the failed attempt of my countrymen to fire the fort's installations, with the Congreve Rockets. "At the Rockets first glare" and so on. Sir William Pitt was against the Germanic King of England and spoke out against that war against American independence.

A bit of a ramble, please excuse me. We have been battling vile snow conditions at the Ontario/Michigan border. All calm now and exhausted Yoopers and Canucks are relaxing. I have a Wiser's Deluxe at hand. Anyway, congratulations to the tuneful Canadian fans. We of the English speaking peoples must stick together- else hang separately.

Ok, fifty bucks coming up for FR.

[Dartman]

We’re good people !! I just wish some around here would stop calling all of us liberals. We’re not.

[plushaye]

That video was lovely and uplifting! Thanks for posting it.
I confess that (as a Canadian), I don’t think I could have jumped into the US anthem like that. Maybe just the first 2 lines and the last 2 lines. ;) I also can’t sing “O Canada” in French by memory. The French version is quite different than the English.

I was very depressed yesterday for your nation but then I gave it all to God in prayer. Prayer is the greatest weapon we have to fight all the rampant evil in the world.

[Scoutmaster]

Heart touching.

I think Canada's national anthem is beautiful. I'm particularly fond of the final "O Canada, we stand on guard for thees."

[Peter Libra]

My bad.

"At the Rocket's Red Glare"

[oldweesie]

Hear! Hear! I can’t tell you how much I loathe it when a national anthem (doesn’t matter whose) is sung like it’s some sort of lounge act.

[Cyman]

Very humbling as I know only “Oh Canada.........”. Need to put it on my too learn list

[the scotsman]

Nice to see other CFL fans here.