This Danish is good to go

Forward Jannik Hansen is only the third native of Denmark to play in the NHL Iain MacIntyre, Vancouver Sun Published:Â Friday, October 10, 2008 Hooga is more popular than hockey in Denmark. Hooga is the phonetic spelling for hygge, the Danish word that roughly translates to chillin' with friends. If Victor Borge and Helena Christensen hang out over Tuborgs and a plate of streaky bacon, that's hygge. Hockey? Well, that's a little less popular than other sports like soccer, cycling and handball, which we call European handball in the same foreign way that Danes refer to our game as ice hockey. Even without mainstream hockey, Denmark somehow shows up in social science rankings as the happiest place on Earth. Must be the hooga. But just wait until a Dane wins the Stanley Cup. Or plays at least one full National Hockey League... [read full story]