When is the hockey game more than hockey? When the president puts Pregame game Call To pump the players, the Prime Minister It provides a post -game commentAnd effects like Empire State and CN Tower in Toronto It lit up in national colors For the competition.
The NHL four-states finals in Boston were on Thursday evening, between Team Canada and Team Usa, the wonderful hockey game that Canadians won 3-2 in additional time for sudden death. But besides the great hockey, the game was a disturbing testimony to the Canadian American relations.
We have reached the lowest ice level. Canada harm, and do not make mistakes, the harm in Canada will eventually be America and California.
There is no moment in the ice an example of feelings outside the ice than the introductory game between the two teams in Montreal in the previous week. The angry Canadian crowd Bitter American Olympic Medal Michel Kwan and pale “Star banner.” Then three American players operated by choosing three battles in the first nine seconds of the game because they are “I had to send a message“
Bad blood goes beyond a commercial war looming between the two countries and the wider Canadian concerns of the new American administration.
Fools fight with words as well as fists. On the final day, White House Secretary Caroline Levitt He said She was looking forward to Team Usa “We beat the State 51, Canada soon.” Meanwhile, they are the book of Canadian columns.Terrified“From the United States; one, a house of Vancouver Sun recently books“Goodbye to America. … I have reached this point in our relationship, where any admiration for me has been replaced by a new angry torque, which is: I will not deal with the enemy.”
Not since Wayne Gretzki hat trick Kings in the 1993 Stanley Cup finals have a hockey game that has traces on California. Canada and California, which is almost equal to the population, exchanged approximately $ 30 billion in Binary -direction trade In 2020, when the Canadian consulate in Los Angeles reported that 774 companies owned by Canadian were operating more than 76,000 California residents. Millions of Canadian passengers spend billions of dollars in California every year.
But Canada and California not only share trade; Hollywood has a wonderful creative partner in our northern neighbor. It was “Titanic”, “The Revenant”, “Deadpool” and “My Big FAT GREK” Filmed In Canada. The golden age of television will not be very golden without Canada: offers including “The Handmaid’s Tale” (based on the book of the Canadian author Margaret Atwood) and “Schitt’s Creek” (Canadian Championship Eugene and Daniel Levy) and even “Property Brothers Brothers”.
It is appropriate to reflect the sport that has echoed the cold American war with the Soviet Union now a emerging trade war with Canada. Grant, we are talking about economic, not nuclear destruction. However, the phrase “mutual guaranteed destruction” still applies. The trade war – this ally for a long time instead of deducting – is similar to that everyone will lose. The only question is how bad.
Take the fools who fought in Montreal. Instead of playing their hearts in their country, they deliberately put themselves in the penalty box. All the pain, no gain. But this is what fools do. They choose to perform on the performance, the scene to contribute, I-exactly the opposite of the 1980-winning American Hockey team everyone on.
The fools never wins because they are everything about withdrawing others. From the six who fought in Montreal, No one has registered.
This is what happens when we give our games and our governments to fools. Canada and California have a lot to lose to allow this standing, not the least at the intersection of the economy and sports. World Cup 2026 – a joint venture for the United States, Canada and Mexico – Seven games At Sophie in Inglood. We cannot allow the longest friendly limits in the world to turn hostile – militarization a border Long than 34 Korean DMZS.
How can we get a pile from where do we want to be?
We need the intestine and daughters to flood the fools and reject the ridiculous in favor of Al -rational. Canada The state will not become 51 Because Canadians do not want it, and the Democratic Party will give an electoral distance the size of Kali. And the year 2018 remembers the crucifixion tariff for the first Trump administration imposed against Canada (among other things)? It may not, because they went Less than a year. Rental won.
Guys and GALS can help in the National Hockey League and other sporting events across the border here as well. If they cannot guarantee the mutual respect for our national anthem, let us find other areas of the common land.
Try a moment of silence for our emergency staff. Both countries have sent firefighters to respond to each other’s destroyed fires The past two years. “Good neighbors are always present to each other,” the Minister of Forestry at Alberta He said When firefighters were sent to Los Angeles last month, where he returned to 2023, when California firefighters supported Alberta’s courage at the time of great needs. “
Regardless of the views of bad things, regardless of the angry words that are spoken, regardless of the number of fists that are offered, we are neighbors and friends, and good players in Canada and California will win. We just need them to speak.
Now it will be a fun time.
ML CAVANAGH is a co -founder of the Modern War Institute in West Point and next book author “Best Scar Bank: How can you be more than you were before. mlcavanagh
