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During my days at Canisius, we always played both anthems. There were essentially three reasons: 1) lot of Canadians on the team; 2) Buffalo and Canada are very close neighbors (as an old Labatt's beer commercial put it, "a whole 'nother country just north of Buffalo!") -- lots of Canadians attend Canisius games; and 3) an honoring of hockey's North American tradition.
I suppose one could argue for inclusion of Russian, Slovakian, etc. anthems as well -- but for schools like Canisius it represents a tradition of a rather unique national friendship. That's worth keeping, I think, and maybe even worth emulating.
There's also the secret 4th reason: lots of folks close to the border -- especially musicians -- think the Canadian anthem is way cooler than our hard-to-sing Star Spangled Banner....!!
...Steve Roth
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