"We Did It!"

The newspaper headline said it all Monday morning.
The Halifax Mooseheads, led by top prospect Nathan MacKinnon's hat trick, won the Memorial Cup on Sunday night, and earned their first national junior hockey championship.

MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin score 5 points each en route to a Mooseheads victory over the Portland Winterhawks. Top NHL prospect MacKinnon had a hat trick, including a title-clinching goal into an empty net, and Drouin had a five-assist performance as Halifax held off a late Portland rally, to defeat the Winterhawks 6-4 in the final.
Leading 5-2 with under six minutes to go, the Mooseheads

"Look Up, Look Waaayy Up"

-- If you watched CBC Television, Dear Reader, from 1958 to 1985 (and later), you know this phrase well.
The Friendly Giant was a daily 15-minute children's show, featuring Robert Homme (pronounced "hummy") as ‘Friendly,’ and Rod Coneybeare (the voice and manipulator of puppets Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe).
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Each episode began with a soft-spoken narration, with the camera trucking left on a toy town, and then approaching ‘the boot;’ we had to “Look up, look waaayy up," to the head of the ‘giant.’
-- We are going to have fun, Dear Reader, by reciting portions of the regular script together!
For a treat, check out this opening & closing of a show from 1979.
Here we go: "We're on our way to the castle; I'll hurry over first and go in the back door,