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Originally Posted by Gemnoble
As someone who is part Ukrainian and likely exists only because my Great Grandparents were expelled by Russian occupiers, I can't feel comfortable hearing anything about Ovechkin especially when he is chasing the records of a Ukrainian Canadian hockey legend. As Canada has the greatest population of Ukrainians outside of the Ukraine and with Ovechkin being possibly the most influential Russian athlete in North America and refusing to disavow Putin outside of a token statement when the invasion began I don't believe Canada should allow him to enter the country and he should even be sanctioned as other Russian public figures have been.
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Gretzky supported George Bush and the invasion of Iraq:
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”All I can say is the President of the United States is a great leader, I happen to think he's a wonderful man and if he believes what he's doing is right I back him 100 per cent," said Gretzky, in Calgary for a news conference for Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.
"If the President decides to go to war he must know more than we know, or we hear about. He must have good reason to go and we have to back that."
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/...ticle25281806/
Not to excuse one or both of them or suggest that you have to feel differently, just to point out that there are a lot of asterisks to hand out if that’s what people want to do. I’m not particularly concerned that it’s Gretzky of all people Ovechkin might take the record from.