--- title: Video: Skater Wipes Out Singing O Canada at Hockey Game description: Watch the hilarious moment when a skater singing the national anthem O Canada trips over a red carpet on the rink canonical: https://time.com/3474871/mark-donnelly-vancouver-canucks-skater-wipes-out/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-06T14:42:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:36.100Z og:title: Watch the Hilarious Moment When a Skater Wipes Out While Singing "O Canada" og:description: Your dose of schadenfreude for the day og:url: https://time.com/3474871/mark-donnelly-vancouver-canucks-skater-wipes-out/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Hilarious Moment When a Skater Wipes Out While Singing "O Canada" twitter:description: Your dose of schadenfreude for the day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Skater Wipes Out While Singing 'O Canada' Before Hockey Game  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 6, 2014 2:42 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Oct 6, 2014 2:42 PM UTC If you need a good belly laugh, look no further than this video of a ice skater — in a tuxedo and cummerbund — tripping over a red carpet while singing “O Canada” before a hockey game. The victim is Mark Donnelly, also known as the Vancouver Canucks anthem singer, who was invited to belt out “O Canada” by Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League during their home opener on Oct. 3, [CBC](http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/mark-donnelly-canucks-anthem-singer-takes-spill-during-o-canada-1.2788002) reports. Before you write off this performance as crazy, [Yahoo! Sports Canada](https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/jrhockey-buzzing-the-net/singer-mark-donnelly-trips-over-red-carpet-while-singing--o-canada--on-skates-—-continues-like-a-champ-151301293.html) points out that he did successfully sing the Canadian national anthem on skates last year: (h/t [Digg](http://digg.com/video/mark-donnelly-hockey-national-anthem-video)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3474871/mark-donnelly-vancouver-canucks-skater-wipes-out/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3474871/mark-donnelly-vancouver-canucks-skater-wipes-out/"},"headline":"Skater Wipes Out While Singing 'O Canada' Before Hockey Game","datePublished":"2014-10-06T14:42:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:36.100Z","description":"Your dose of schadenfreude for the day","url":"https://time.com/3474871/mark-donnelly-vancouver-canucks-skater-wipes-out/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3474871/mark-donnelly-vancouver-canucks-skater-wipes-out/","name":"Skater Wipes Out While Singing 'O Canada' Before Hockey Game"}}]}] ```