Fans delighted with the country celebrate Canada’s victory over the United States in the final of the 4 nations.
In a politically charged context, Connor McDavid of Canada marked the winner, in a spectacular 3-2 in overtime against the country’s fierce North American rival, Thursday evening in Boston.
“It was much more than a small tournament,” said McDavid after victory.
Hundreds of fans have exploded from their seats in Yvr Greta in Vancouver, hugging and shouting “Canada!” Canada! Canada! “After McDavid, the goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck, with a winning shot on his left shoulder.
Canadian pride was out of the Peel advertising charts in downtown Montreal, where the rowdy celebrations in the crowded bar led to beer glasses to break on the ground. In Calgary, fans finally dragged the best best mixing and distilling to sing “O Canada” one last time.
It was not enough that the unique male hockey tournament marked the return of the best NHL stars after almost a decade of the high -level international piece.
Canada-US clashes have accelerated by signifying Historic when US President Donald threatened with serious prices against his close ally and has thought about the nation in the 51st state.
Trump marked the fire Thursday morning, using this rhetoric once again in an article on social networks supporting the American team.
A recent survey by Rogers showed that 60% of Canadians knew the tournament thought that a victory would mean more in political and economic circumstances.
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“I’m the most proud that I’ve been from my country for a long time,” Marcus McKlein said in Montreal, who was adorned with red and waving a Canadian flag despite it was certainly not much on hockey.
Boston fans hué “o Canada” before the washer fell on an apparent response to the recent scissors that echoed in the NHL arenas, including the Chaotic Canadian-Aux United States match in Montreal’s Bell on Thursday. Center.
Canadian nationalism was once again testing at the Peel Pub. The fans were held on the guards and completed the national anthem with pride before Huer without mercy “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
In Calgary and Vancouver, during this time, the fans retained their tunes for the American anthem.
American fans who braved pro-Canadian bars in Montreal and Vancouver, however, heard their fair share throughout the night.
“It’s always big, but now, especially because I’m here, and geopolitical tensions at the moment, I have the impression (the rivalry it) at the top,” said Naim Temlock, a former student of McGill de Chicago. “And it’s the first best on the best in, I don’t know how many years, which is amplified.”
The first meeting of Canada-US Saturday-a 3-1 victory in the United States where tensions boiled on ice with three fights in the first nine seconds-attracted 10.1 million viewers across America from the North.
Canadian fan Jean Levesque, who led Montreal to Boston to catch the final, said that he had never seen the rivalry of Canada-Us reaching this level.
“It’s different,” he said outside TD Garden. “Last week in Montreal, they said that if you ever close the power of Hydro-Québec which feeds all the electricity in the province, and connect a wire in the center of the bell, you would light the whole province.”
In Vancouver, the people of a mount of the frame could not contain their excitement, jump from top to bottom and wave the Canadian flags when Nathan Mackinnon marked to put Canada 1-0.
The mood went from joy to disbelief when the United States took a 2-1 lead, while fans held their heads in their hands.
But Sam Bennett finally equalized for Canada before McDavid’s gold objective allows a nation to expire.
The United States has long played in the second rank of Canada in male international hockey. Canada has also triumphed over American soil with a 5-2 gold medals against the Americans at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
Sidney Crosby’s gold goal raised Canada after the United States in the 2010 Olympic final in Vancouver.
“It was not really a rivalry until 2010 – Crosby obtained us,” said American fan Chris Leduc, who attended the match in Boston with his son Chase. “Now it’s starting to become a rivalry, right?”
Leduc, wearing the American hero’s American jersey and “Miracle on Ice” of 1980, Mike Eruzione, called the latest game on Thursday, the most watched and most spoken of the hockey match in the past 15 years . »»
The 4 nations – The nearest male hockey have seen the best hockey since the 2016 World Cup – is considered an aperitif for the return of NHL at the Olympic Games in 2026.
NHL players participated in five Olympic games between 1998 and 2014, before missing the 2018 and 2022 Games.
– With Joshua Clipperton files in Boston, Nono Shen in Vancouver and Matthew Scace in Calgary.
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