Canadian Fans Boo US Anthem – Team USA Takes It Out on Canadian Players as Soon as the Puck Drops

The “51st state” was feeling pretty confident going into the second game of the 4 Nations Face-Off, a four-team ice hockey tournament run by the NHL — featuring Canada (putatively independent, although our president does occasionally say otherwise), the United States, Finland, and Sweden.

America’s Hat was playing America on Sunday — and, as The Athletic noted, Team Canada was on a 17-game winning streak that went back to the 2010 Olympics. Not only that, there were geopolitical implications in the game against the United States, especially given the animosity between newly minted U.S. President Donald Trump and outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

So, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, fans booed “The Star-Spangled Banner” as it played before the game, expressing their disdain

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