What Is PuckDat?

I think some peo­ple can eas­ily take the name Puck­Dat and decide that it must be some­thing asso­ci­ated with a vul­gar explica­tive and that might be par­tially true.

But the truth is the expres­sion is much more and for the most part it’s uniquely Canadian.

It rep­re­sents us mind­ing our man­ners even while act­ing in defi­ance to what we per­ceive as an injustice.

And let’s not mis­take that, once we per­ceive an injus­tice, we want to fix it or at least help.

It’s the very nature of what we have been since the first set­tlers strug­gled against the cold win­ters and turned it into a mag­i­cal time when they played while wait­ing for the warm days to return.

You can sit and mope or you can get it done.

Cana­di­ans get it done.

Again and again if you care to look back through my back cat­a­logue of posts.

So Puck­Dat may seem vul­gar, but it’s actu­ally Cana­di­ans being polite.

And more over, it’s usu­ally fol­lowed by one of us rolling up our sleeves to get the job done.

On the bat­tle­field or in the sports arena, it’s never been a good idea to push us too far because in many respects you should fear the word when it is expressed as it is in fact our ral­ly­ing cry.

Respect­fully, for all the heroes who said just that when they knew the time had come to make a hard choice and made it, this space is for you.