For at least the second time this month, a Stanley Cup hockey game has forced a postponement of a political event in Canada.
The first time saw the date changed for the French leaders' debate in the federal election so it wouldn't conflict with a Montreal Canadiens-Boston Bruins game.
The latest example of hockey triumphing over politics involves a telephone townhall meeting the B.C. government planned to hold on the harmonized sales tax on Tuesday night.
The meeting has been put off until Wednesday so it won't clash with the deciding game of the Vancouver Canucks' series against the Chicago Black Hawks -- a series the Canucks once led three games to none.
The meeting is the first in a series of telephone call-in events in which people can lob question about the tax at Finance Minister Kevin Falcon and Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom.
Several meetings in different areas of the province will be held over the next three weeks as the B.C. government searches for ways to shore up support for the tax, which will be put to a mail-in referendum in June.
