{"id":244688,"date":"2025-02-22T23:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/canadas-hockey-victory-sends-a-message-to-trump-hands-off\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:31:19","slug":"canadas-hockey-victory-sends-a-message-to-trump-hands-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/canadas-hockey-victory-sends-a-message-to-trump-hands-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Hockey Victory Sends a Message to Trump: Hands Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/22\/multimedia\/22canadaletter-crosby-jwzq\/22canadaletter-crosby-jwzq-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Canada\u2019s Hockey Victory Sends a Message to Trump: Hands Off\" title=\"Canada\u2019s Hockey Victory Sends a Message to Trump: Hands Off\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some sports rivalries are generational. Others are about an underdog fight or national pride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Canada\u2019s hockey victory over the United States on Thursday was a bit of both. Against a backdrop of taunts by President Trump about annexing Canada and the looming economic threat of 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, a lot was symbolically riding on the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">[<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Read: <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-auto-tariffs.html\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Trump Says Auto Tariffs Coming Apr. 2<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCanada needed a win, and the players beared that on their shoulders,\u201d Jon Cooper, Canada\u2019s coach, said after the game. \u201cThis one was different. This wasn\u2019t a win for themselves. This was a win for 40-plus million people. The guys knew it and they delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The game capped off a round-robin tournament called the 4 Nations Face-Off between Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States. It was the first international tournament since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey to feature some of the National Hockey League\u2019s best players representing their countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The championship on Thursday took on geopolitical consequences unfamiliar to Canadian sports fans. After Canada lost the first-round match, there was a sense of urgency weighed by heavy stakes and a responsibility to prove something very important to the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Instead of the usual electric anticipation before sports matchups between Canada and the United States, this championship\u2019s buildup held a bitterness. Social media was abuzz with insults in both directions. My group chat plotted how many Canadian flags would sufficiently offend at a sports bar. Bygone were the playful pregame bets between world leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite being an infrequent sports watcher, the tone felt unusually familiar. The intensity reminded me of the hostile soccer rivalry between Albania, my family\u2019s home country, and Serbia. The two nations have a fraught political relationship and have been involved in wars against each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the flip side, Canada and the United States, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has remarked in recent weeks, fought alongside each other as close allies that share a friendship unparalleled on the global stage. That was, of course, before Mr. Trump\u2019s threats of annexation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou can\u2019t take our country \u2014 and you can\u2019t take our game,\u201d Mr. Trudeau wrote in a post on X after the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/world\/canada\/trudeau-trump-hockey-canada-us-feud.html\" title=\"\">nail-biting victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thursday began with more needling from Mr. Trump that Canada should \u201csomeday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State\u201d led by \u201cGovernor Trudeau.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">[<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Read: <\/em><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/17\/us\/politics\/canada-trump-51st-state.html\" title=\"\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump\u2019s Idea Favors Democrats.<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Typically, Canada\u2019s matches against the United States are about sport supremacy and pride, equally so in the women\u2019s hockey league and in soccer and basketball, said Dave Bidini, a Canadian musician and author of 13 books about hockey. That\u2019s changing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis geopolitical climate adds an entirely new depth, I think, to these kinds of games and probably will for the next four years,\u201d Mr. Bidini told me. The last time he recalled feeling heightened political tension during an international hockey event was during a match in 1972 between Canada and the Soviet Union. Canada scored the winning goal with 34 seconds to spare. As a child, Mr. Bidini feared the Soviet Union would consume his country if the team lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cLooking back, I think how utterly absurd that was,\u201d Mr. Bidini told me before the game on Thursday. \u201cBut that was the climate of the times, and tonight is the closest it has come to mirroring that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI hope Canada wins because I think it\u2019ll quiet the noise a little bit,\u201d he added, referring to Mr. Trump\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As for other noise, sports-watching venues across Canada were raucous. At a packed sports bar in Toronto\u2019s east end, fans around me booed the United States. They erupted in jubilation after Canada\u2019s first two goals by Nathan MacKinnon and Sam Bennett, and into enthusiastic cheers after three impressive saves by the goaltender Jordan Binnington. The viewers more than once broke into the melody of \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d by the White Stripes. Pizza Pizza, a Canadian fast-food franchise, put out ads during the game for a 25 percent \u201creverse tariff\u201d discount on pizza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Connor McDavid, who played alongside the fellow national treasure Sidney Crosby, scored the winning goal in overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then came the finale: the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Matthew Roberts, a spectator who was sitting not far from me, belted out the first words of \u201cO Canada.\u201d Others quickly joined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI sang \u2018O Canada\u2019 as loud as I could to get the crowd going,\u201d Mr. Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As exhilarated fans filed out of the bar, Mr. Roberts told me he normally isn\u2019t the most patriotic or invested sports fan, but the atmosphere that night called for it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-b4a7c02\">Trans Canada<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Pierre Poilievre, the front-runner to become Canada\u2019s next leader, has become <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/17\/world\/americas\/trump-canada-pierre-poilievre.html\" title=\"\">a darling of the American right<\/a>, writes Nori Onishi, The Times\u2019s correspondent in Montreal.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">A Delta flight from Minneapolis <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/world\/canada\/delta-plane-toronto-crash.html\" title=\"\">crashed at Toronto Pearson International Airport<\/a> on Monday, with the plane going belly-up on the tarmac. All 76 passengers and four crew members survived. The airline <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/canada\/delta-plane-crash-toronto-30000.html\" title=\"\">offered passengers $30,000<\/a> each. And amid the recent string of crashes, here\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/travel\/plane-crashes-flight-safety.html\" title=\"\">what passengers should know about airline safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/02\/20\/travel\/things-to-do-banff.html\" title=\"\">Banff is featured in the latest edition of 36 Hours<\/a>, a series by the Travel section that offers a weekend itinerary complete with dining recommendations, hotels and activities. (In case you missed it, I recently visited <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/01\/23\/travel\/things-to-do-quebec-city.html\" title=\"\">Quebec City for the series<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The Canadian model Winnie Harlow <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/fashion\/weddings\/winnie-harlow-kyle-kuzmas-engagement.html\" title=\"\">announced her engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">John Giorgi, a software engineer and research scientist based in Toronto, believes <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/business\/ai-coding-software-engineers.html\" title=\"\">artificial intelligence tools are helping coders<\/a>, not leading to their extinction.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Vjosa Isai is a reporter and researcher for The New York Times in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">How are we doing?<\/strong><br \/>We\u2019re eager to have your thoughts about this newsletter and events in Canada in general. 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