OTTAWA — One of Canada’s newest senators took a moment Tuesday — on the record, in the Senate chamber — to bemoan how American commentators are ruining hockey. “And none of us from about the age of six months on ever needed a laser beam to follow a puck.”Calling the phrases “odious,” he accused American hockey commentators of having “no respect for millions of Canadians” who love the game. “Tragically, Canadians are often forced to listen to American play-by-play commentators if we want to watch U.S.-based teams in the first or second round,” he said. Upon his entry into the Senate, Richards joined the Independent Senators Group, now the biggest organized contingent of senators just about two years after it was founded. Some senators continued to identify themselves informally with the Liberals, while others created the new Independent Senators Group in 2016.

Source: National Post May 02, 2018 16:07 UTC