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      Lucky Loonie Good Luck Coin Canada Olympics 2006 Lucky Loonie Luckie Loony Canada Dollar Coin

      Lucky Loonie Good Luck Coin Canada Olympics 2006 Lucky Loonie Luckie Loony Canada Dollar Coin

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      Lucky Loonie Good Luck Coin Canada Olympics 2006 Lucky Loonie Luckie Loony Canada Dollar Coin

       
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      The original reason for placing the loonie was to assist in the puck-drop: the centre ice at Salt Lake was emblazoned with a large logo, and was missing the customary circle used by the referee and face-off players as a target for the puck - so he needed to add a some kind of a dot as a puck target that would not stand out, and a loonie buried under the ice served well. Both the men's and women's hockey teams would win gold in the tournament, the men's 50 years to the day after their last gold medal victory. Following the Games, Team Canada executive director Wayne Gretzky recovered the coin and gave it to the Hockey Hall of Fame. A loonie was also used at the IIHF World Hockey Championships between Canada and Sweden on May 11, 2003. This lucky loonie is known affectionately as the Helsinki Loonie. It was hidden surreptitiously before the Gold-Medal hockey game and saw Team Canada to victory. After forward Anson Carter scored against Swedish goaltender Mikael Tellqvist in overtime to win the World Hockey Championship for Canada, Team Canada officials admitted they had placed a Loonie in the padding beneath the crossbar of the Swedish net.

       
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      • The Royal Canadian Mint created this Lucky Loonie to celebrate a Canadian Olympic story and to wish all the Canadian athletes the very best of luck for the 2006 Olympics in Torino.

      • The Royal Canadian Mint has provided each member of the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic teams with a Lucky Loonie as their own personal good luck charm. This is it for 2006

      • At the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002, a loonie brought a stroke of good fortune to Canada when our men's and women's hockey teams skated to victory over a Lucky Loonie buried secretly beneath centre ice.

      • The golden-coloured loonie became associated with Canada's winning hockey and curling teams and has been viewed as a good-luck charm in international competition.

      • The legend began during the 2002 Winter Olympics, when a Canadian icemaker for the ice surfaces in the ice hockey tournament Trent Evans, had buried a loonie under centre ice.


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