Posted on 02/17/2025 3:45:11 AM PST by MtnClimber
As the Rodney Dangerfield joke goes, “I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.”
While fights are nothing new to hockey, the recent spat at the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in Montreal, Canada began before the first puck was dropped.
Canadians booed the American National Anthem, then within three minutes of play, American player Matthew Tkachuk and Canada’s Brandon Hagel dropped the gloves and went toe-to-toe.
Boos have been heard at other events since President Trump punked Justin Trudeau about Canada becoming America’s 51st state, and subsequently threatened to impose tariffs on Canada if they didn’t do more to protect our northern border and stop the flow of illegal aliens and Fentanyl into the U.S. While Canada and Trudeau subsequently agreed to do more, it sparked outrage amongst Canadian citizens.
While I respect a people protecting their sovereignty, which is what the America First agenda is all about, the Canadian people need to understand that it is not Canada or the Canadian people that we oppose, but leftism.
Justin Trudeau has destroyed Canada. Economically, the Bank of Canada has expressed concerns going back to last summer.
Mortgage Renewals
"The large number of households renewing mortgages at higher rates and with higher payments in 2025 could curb spending and dampen economic activity and inflation more than expected."
Population Growth
New figures released this week show Canada's population surpassed 41 million people in the first quarter of 2024, less than a year after the population hit 40 million last summer. Almost all the increase was from international migration, according to Statistics Canada.
These factors don’t even speak to the anti-liberty actions that Justin Trudeau imposed during the COVID pandemic.
Trudeau, like Joe Biden, imposed draconian vaccine mandates, and summarily shut down his entire economy. When truckers peacefully protested
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Canada needs to stop following the UK path to suicide.
> Canadians booed the American National Anthem,
Canadians should respect their anthem.
Canadians should close their porous borders to immigrants. And show greater reverence and respect for their future national anthem.
Usain Bolt, the Jamaican runner and the world’s fastest man, was being interviewed.
Then a national anthem started playing, not his own, for another gold medalist.
He stopped the interview and pointed to the flags, saying everyone should show respect.
Now that’s classy.
Were those Canadians raised by wolves?!?
Sure, boo the players.
You do NOT boo the national anthem.
You do NOT boo the service personnel singing it.
WTG, Canada.
But maybe that was your Deep State’s intention...
Just out of curiosity, were there a lot of tickets comped for that game?
Trust but verify.
I remember that. Pretty cool.
Three minutes? It was literally two seconds, 19:58. The next fight (Tkachuk’s brother) ONE second later, at 19:57. The third (and final) fight (J.T. Miller for the U.S.) happened six seconds after that, at 19:51. Three fights in under 10 seconds of game time.
What a game! Oh yeah, they played some hockey, too.
The Snow Mexicans booed the US national anthem. Then the US hocky team beat the Snow Mexicans.
Canadians booed our Anthem and then got their butts whooped by the USA!
No boos during the singing of the Canadian national anthem in Boston today. Very happy about that. Good job, hockey fans!
Glad to hear that. Have some class.
Actually ther were 3 fights in the first 9 seconds of play. The first started after 1 second. 2 seconds later, the second fight started.
I remember that. Respect to him...
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