The final of 4 nations of the USA. Canada was a complicated call for the ESPN station due to politics

The United States Hockey rivalry reached its most popular point Earlier this month in the confrontation of the 4 nations, and fans, and politics, they played important roles.

In the first game of the US tournament, which went against Finland in Montreal, The Canadian crowd He booed the “Star ban.” Two days later, the multitude of Montreal booed the US anthem again before the two border countries entered three fights in the first nine seconds of its highly anticipated team.

Of course, politics may not have taken the fights directly, but surely they were the main factor for the big boos.

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General description of the stadium during the US national anthem. Uu. Before the start of the first period against the Canada team during the ice hockey championship game of the 4 nations in TD Garden. (Images Brian Fluharty-Imagn)

The battles of the national anthem began earlier this month when the fans of the OTTAWA senators booed the “banner with stars” on February 1, when Trump’s tariffs on the goods from Canada to the United States were scheduled to be implemented (Since then they have been delayed). It also happened during a Toronto Raptors game the next day, and took place to Boston, when the Americans weed the Canadian anthem weakly in their two games on the US floor. UU.

Sean McDonough was in the call of the final, which ended up being a 3-2 victory in extra time for Canada in the United States, but said countries.

“I think in this case, we had to say something,” said McDonough in the “Sports media” podcast. “I felt that I had to say something because it was a problem, and I guess I contributed to him for what I said in the radio program, but there had to be some recognition.”

Canada players celebrate a goal by Nathan Mackinnon during the first period of the hockey game about the 4 -nations championship against the United States, on Thursday, February 20, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Kupa)

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McDonough, earlier that week, said he expected the Americans not to boo for the Canadian national anthem before the final, which according to him became a big problem in the media.

“I had said before: it is surprising how our business works. I am in a couple of interview programs. They asked me about the boo and I said: ‘I hope they don’t boo.'” I just hope the Americans are not booed. And to the point that people are more interested in this for that, that was much more, in my experience, a problem in Canada than in Boston. In Canada, they were. “

“It’s interesting how our thing works,” he added. “I said: ‘Well, I hope I don’t boo’. Well, then the headlines of these articles become ‘Sean McDonough (inaudible) not to boo’, as I called a press conference and said: ‘Do not boo.’ What I said was: “I hope they don’t boo.”

The US team striker Auston Matthews (34) and former hockey player Mike Eruzione and former hockey player Wayne Gretzky and the eaves of the team of the team of the team Sidney Crosby (87) during the hockey championship game about 4 nations ice on TD Garden. (Images Brian Fluharty-Imagn)

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McDonough added that if the singer of Canadian anthem had met Chantal Kreviazuk The words changed on purpose as an opportunity to President Donald Trump, “would have recognized.” But initially he thought it was an accidental flow of the letter.

The victory improved the Canada record against the US. In the best formats of the best to 14-4-1, with victories that include the 2002 and 2010 Olympic Medal Games and the 2014 Olympic semifinal.

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