Wow what a run at PK, absolutely love it. Hilarious how the crowd who are usually the biggest "keep politics out of sports" people any time anyone discusses anything other than the lineups are now politicizing the heck out of this.
I can't wrap my head around anyone whose logic is that it's disrespectful to be pissed off at another country that is threatening to take you over. But I guess they are the same people that see a trade deficit largely driven by them willingly buying our oil and gas constitute reasonable ground to invade or take over another country.
Kind of hate how this game has become a proxy when our team has weak goaltending and maybe even blueline. Hope our forwards can get it done tonight
Where are all the posters who wanted to separate politics and sport now? The ####ing President of the United States referred to our Prime Minister as Governor Trudeau, invited him to watch the game with him, and talked today about how we can't wait to beat the future and cherished 51st State. I hope we cripple an American player today.
*emotionally speaking"
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Incredible how simple anthem booing turned what would've/should've been a boring tournament into an intense Political battle that has Canadians & Americans as divided as possible.
Incredible how simple anthem booing turned what would've/should've been a boring tournament into an intense Political battle that has Canadians & Americans as divided as possible.
Can't wait for puck drop
Yeah, that's what started everything. The Canadians booming the American anthem.
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Wow what a run at PK, absolutely love it. Hilarious how the crowd who are usually the biggest "keep politics out of sports" people any time anyone discusses anything other than the lineups are now politicizing the heck out of this.
I can't wrap my head around anyone whose logic is that it's disrespectful to be pissed off at another country that is threatening to take you over. But I guess they are the same people that see a trade deficit largely driven by them willingly buying our oil and gas constitute reasonable ground to invade or take over another country.
Kind of hate how this game has become a proxy when our team has weak goaltending and maybe even blueline. Hope our forwards can get it done tonight
Buying our oil and gas at a discount so they can sell it at a large profit, no less. And that trade deficit is before services are considered, an area in which the U.S. has a trade surplus with Canada.
I hope we whip their asses on the ice. If I was in the crowd and they put his picture up, I would boo him as loudly as I could, and I hope that whoever is there, whether American or Canadian, will do the same. Sport has never been about politics for me in the past, and I never make political comments on this forum (except in jest), but Trump is now threatening the whole basis of western democracy and rule-based international law, and appears to either be in an acute confusional state or else fully subservient to Putin. He has to be stopped, but only his supporters can do that, so we have to let them know that the things he is doing and threatening to do are aggressive, undemocratic, un-American, and simply not OK under any circumstances, and that they will utterly ruin the Republican Party and tarnish Trump's legacy forever. We need to sway the opinion of the American public to embolden them to push back against his tyranny.
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Expecting a great hockey game, but not gonna lie: the political situation has already pre-ruined it for me. Going to watch at the pub because the kids are big hockey fans but if it was me tbh I'd probably just avoid it.
Hopefully Canada wins, the fans get along okay, and no one uses it as an excuse to invade anyone else...
