Re: [Goanet] Ice-hockey?

2014-02-24 Thread Mervyn Lobo
From: Frederick FN Noronha *  फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 1:57:18 PM Subject: [Goanet] Ice-hockey? In terms of evolution, was wondering whether Goenkars

[Goanet] Ice Hockey

2014-02-24 Thread roland.francis
FN , interesting question you ask about the Goan representation in the ice hockey teams at national Canadian level. The simple answer is none at all. There is no real reason to explain this. At present there is a Nazem Qadri, an Ismaili Africander who plays for the Toronto Maple Leafs but that

Re: [Goanet] Ice-hockey?

2014-02-24 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 24 February 2014 04:31, Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca wrote: Mervyn BTW, here are the official results of the Winter Olympics. Canada won a medal for every 1.4 million residents. To put this into perspective, it is the same feeling you would get if India returned from an Olympics with

Re: [Goanet] Ice Hockey

2014-02-24 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 24 February 2014 02:57, roland.francis roland.fran...@ymail.com wrote: FN , interesting question you ask about the Goan representation in the ice hockey teams at national Canadian level. The simple answer is none at all. There is no real reason to explain this. At present there is a Nazem

Re: [Goanet] Ice Hockey

2014-02-24 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Roland, Truly splendid reflections. vjp

Re: [Goanet] Ice Hockey - Erratum

2014-02-24 Thread roland.francis
message From: Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com Date: 24-02-2014 2:12 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Goanet Mail list goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ice Hockey Roland, Truly splendid reflections. vjp

[Goanet] Ice-hockey?

2014-02-23 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
In terms of evolution, was wondering whether Goenkars or Africander-Goans could make it to, say, the ice-hockey national team of Canada. Does it happen? Just found one Tavares in the current team, though he seems to be of Portuguese-Polish descent.