The Sweater

In honour of opening week of the 2008-09 NHL regular season, here is the timeless National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short The Sweater, or Le Chandail.

This classic story, which is based on the 1979 short story Le chandail de hockey by Quebec author Roch Carrier has been said to be a parallel to the cultural and linguistic tensions between Canada's anglophone and francophone communities.

I just say this is a classic piece of Canadiana .