The Only Thing Better Than 25,000 Teddy Bears Flying Onto The Ice Is The Play By Play Guy's Electric Play Call Of The Entire Thing

 
Yahoo Canada - Of all the ways that Calgary and Edmonton try to one-up and outdo each other, the Teddy Bear Toss games that Alberta’s two junior hockey teams hold each December is the most wonderful of all. The Memorial Cup currently resides in Edmonton and the Oil Kings collected nearly 11,500 stuffed animals during their Teddy Bear night on Saturday at Rexall Place. However, the Hitmen have always set the bar for the Teddy Bear Toss, which they have held since their maiden Western Hockey League season in 1995. It’s since become ubiquitous throughout junior hockey. On Sunday, against the Moose Jaw Warriors — who have been the visiting team for several of these games in recent weeks — the Hitmen delivered. Officially, 25,214 stuffed critters hit ice after Philadelphia Flyers draft pick Radel Fazleev got the icebreaker in the second minute of the game (incidentally, Edmonton got its goal in the first minute off their game). The bears are collected and distributed to charities across Calgary and southern Alberta.
 

Electric. It’s the only word to describe it. Everything about that is electric. The goal. The play by play call of the teddy bears being thrown. The 25,000 teddy bears themselves. Bret Hart’s music. And then the announcer throwing a “YABA DABA DOO” in there turns it up to a hunnit real quick. I don’t really know what that means, but that’s what happened. It went to a hunnit.

And then to top it all off, the cherry on the electric cake, that moonwalk.

So we have teddy bear toss, ugly xmas sweaters, Bret Hart, a nifty goal, yaba dada doos, and moonwalking. Canada, you did good.