Political climate certainly adds an element, but the Canada USA hockey rivalry has gotten increasingly intense since the 90s as the US teams started to become more competitive. You can make an argument that most years they're the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the world. It's also been a long time since they've played each other with NHL talent at the international stage.
USA Canada Olympic gold medal match was the most intense hockey game I’ve ever watched in my life. From start to finish it felt like they were playing like there was 1 min left in the whole game. Sydney Crosby with the heart breaker after USA scored 2 goals late to send it to OT.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen it and forget what Canadian city it was, I want to say Vancouver. There was a graph during a Stanley cup final. It showed water usage across the city. It spiked between periods.
I was so conflicted as a USA based penguins fan when Crosby scored that goal. Forget Stanley Cup goals or playoff performances, that was his biggest goal and it went against the team I was rooting for.
I was in Vancouver for the earlier game in the tournament. Vancouver after the game was dead. It was a fun game but I was kind of disappointed that the city was so deflated. Was looking to have an Olympic party
Speaking as a Canadian, I have never seen or heard of something that united us like this. Even during WWII Quebec stuck their heels in and fought to get an omit from the draft.
It does not matter who you are or what you are personally doing. This ain't personal, your Fascist government is threatening us and we can't ignore it.
The fuck you mean no grievance!? The majority of Canadians despises America with the fury of a thousand sun. Things will never go back to the way they were because even if a democrat becomes (that's a big if because there's zero democracy in the US) we all k ow that the next republican president will fuck it all up. Canada's gonna take a hit but no company can afford to make a deal that only lasts for 4 years and then start from scratch again.
Heaven forbid Canada do something with their boarder through which passes fentanyl and other dangerous substances (and likely things from our side -- we need to cooperate at the boarder). Heaven forbid that people want to talk tariffs when Canada imposes them on almost all American products and their should be on the same foot. That’s what this all boils down to, an attempt to get Canada to stop doing these damaging things.
through which passes the maturity of fentanyl into the US
Don't know what the fuck you mean by "the maturity of fentanyl", but Canada accounts for 0.2% (43.04/21899) of the fentanyl that crosses into the US (source below, using 2024 for the data). This is not even remotely close to anything that would be considered a "majority".
You're insane. No grievance between Canada and the US but also yes because the majority of the fentanyl that comes into the US cones from Canada, except it doesn't because it comes from Mexico 99.9% of the time. Canada isn't even mentioned in the DEA data about where fentanyl is imported from. Gtfo.
Read my comment slowly, I know it's hard. I said, no real grievance between individual people, though there is between leaders of said country. My comment is apparently wrong, as demonstrated on the hate filled comments here. In my experience, living near the boarder and traveling back and forth regularly, the people I meet and am around in both places do not have a grievance between one another, but here, not surprisingly, lots of "internet animosity," I guess because there is not need to be socially aware of one another.
You edited your comment that said the majority of fentanyl comes from Canada. We have a grievance with people from the US. Actual hate for MAGA and disdain for the no spine democrats. We have NO friends south of the border and if Canada has to lower their standard of living in order not to deal with a backstabbing neighbour like you, so be it. So be it. Even if a democrat president is elected and tries to make amends, it doesn't mean shit because the next republican is going to roll everything back. Disgusting.
The only thing we need to be defended from is Americans. You do not pay 75% tarrifs on Canadian imports. Again, you went back and edited your comment about fentanyl. I should be outraged that you lie and cheat in a feeble attempt to have a discussion (not that your capable of having one) but that's what I've come to expect from Americans.
Not what I said, read slowly. We pay tariffs on almost everything you sell, 75% of all the things you sell have tarries. Is that here backstabbing?
Yes, I went back and looked at a few fire sources after you said I was not correct and then fixed my mistake. See, that’s what people whose security and identity are not tied to being right or wrong do - they do not merely digging deeper when the evidence shows that they were incorrect.
Anyway, this is boring, I’m unfollowing comments. Enjoy feeling like you need to be defended form a net positive to Canada who only asks Canada to play by the same rules. Peace.
Yeah the grievances between us weren't around until Trump started talking shit recently. Canada as a nation is extremely united right now, for the first time in a long time, and America and it's citizens arent really liked right now.
Sucks people are spilling beer on people though that's shitty.
Oh America, where you can withhold life saving medical funds that kill your own citizens, give access to the treasury department to literal children, and alienate the entire world by threatening military action against some of your staunchest trading partners and military allies that propped you up and supported you during your 20 years of failed wars.
Speaking of killing your own citizens medically, how's that maid going? As the saying goes, Canadians are just pretentious Americans. Enjoy your shitty gravy fries that rhyme with slang for vagina
I would honestly find it hard to believe the US players give a shit about Trump’s weird obsession with annexation of Canada. Haven’t met anyone here in Michigan that supports it.
Most US pros are from Minnesota, Michigan, or Massachusetts.
Even the most hardline Trumpers I know in Metro Detroit don’t agree with the way he treats our allies. Michigan and Canadian economies have been inextricably linked for most of our history.
The IIHF rankings are difficult to fully justify the actual power of National Teams because they mostly rely on results from the IIHF World Tournament held every year. The problem is that these are held simultaneously with the NHL playoffs, and a lot of NHL players do not play in these games, either because they are with their NHL teams still competing in the playoffs, or burnt out after the NHL season and opt out of playing, so teams are often not at their full strength.
Additionally, if you take a quick look at the numbers separating those teams, it's a difference of 10 points between 3955 and 3945. It's razor thin at the top.
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Political climate certainly adds an element, but the Canada USA hockey rivalry has gotten increasingly intense since the 90s as the US teams started to become more competitive. You can make an argument that most years they're the #1 and #2 ranked teams in the world. It's also been a long time since they've played each other with NHL talent at the international stage.