Now all those American players can go back to their Canadian teams and continue to suck in the playoffs and never win a cup.
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I fully agree with Steve Dangle. When will a Canadian NHL team finally take the Stanley Cup?
If Buffalo wins it, would that count?
LOL! Man, I feel sorry for Buffalo, the Bills had numerous chances and the Sabres (in 2nd place!!!) drought continues. Are there Canadian Sabres fans watching from west bank of the Niagara River?
Probably. I’ve seen some Leafs’ fans declare they’ve jumped ship, for the rest of the season at least.
One said they feel bad for the Eastern Conference bc there won’t be a “Get Out of 1st Round Free” card since the Leafs won’t make the playoffs.
I wouldn’t shake Trump’s hand. It has been up someone’s asshole, and they didn’t consent.
It may be worth it if you had a chance to say ‘how tiny’ as you clasped his hand. Though representing the NHL not like they could do that, or most people in his insulated environment.
That doesn’t really seem newsworthy. Basically, “podcaster says something”.
Professional sports are state sponsored to promote patriotism. Sports leagues are made to empower and legitimize people like Trump.
Lol.
As a European, I disagree hard on this. Sports is mostly about community, local clubs and entertainment for the 9-5 worker. To have something that takes away the thoughts of the housing loan, ensurance bills, health, kids, job, etc.
Well, I thought the bread circuses side was so obvious it wasn’t worth a mention. Docile and irrationally in support of the state is the kind of people sports are made to make.
Something from this podcast stood out to me.
He talks about how Austin Matthews is a great guy because he spends a lot of time at Sick Kids playing with the children. Does Austin sucking up to known big league pedofile Trump cast that in a different type of light? Just speculating.
The single most important purity test is Trump. Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mr Rogers, and uhh Eleanor Roosevelt would instantly become terrible people if they shook Trump’s hand, regardless of anything else they did or accomplished in life. That’s how it works. It’s like King Midas kinda.
Ghandi had his own issues with sleeping with young girls.
Doesn’t surprise me tbh. I’m pretty cynical about powerful people in general. I think if we knew everything there are very few who would survive with reputations intact.
King Mierdas
Finally, somebody with balls.
I was disappointed in Jared Keeso trying to sanitize Gretzky in the last season of Shoresy. Either he wrote and filmed that season far in advance or he’s completely tone deaf to CDN hockey fans.
Wow! That guy is more angrier than that Canadian curling guy! I can’t fault the team players for being thrown into that weird political situation. They will laugh at almost anything that is intended to be a joke just to show welcoming respect to authority (even if they don’t mean it and even if it is wrong to do so). Their visit to the SOTU address is more about the committees running things than about the players.
Does someone have a citation on the threats?
I’d heard him mention he wanted Canada to join the US, I’d not heard him threatening it, nor bringing tanks to the border.
I think the tariffs are apart of the “threat” … he said he would remove them if we "joined. The thing with Trump is he says that he doesn’t “need” anything about Canada and then talk about all the freshwater we have. So it’s a lot of “dog whistling” mixed in with actions like the tariffs whenever we do things like make deals with China.
Ah, I tend to believe every country should have the ability to control their own trade policy. Paul Krugman a far left leaning economist called it a more politically expedient VAT tax, which most US economists say we need a VAT due to massive US debt accrual.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYqvK_oVN8
It is a tax, and generates revenue for the US, which is something many left leaning people want for things like a minimum income. I’d be curious if a Democrat did it and used the proceeds to establish a minimum income would people be seething with rage and calling it a betrayal?
You just log on to the internet? World news in general?
Thats a recursive citation?
Nobodies given me a single thing that isnt this same video.
Fucking moron
Get fucked. It’s 3 seconds on google to find reputable articles about his threats to canada, videos of him threatening canada, or even his own fucking posts on truth social.
The only reason it hasn’t happened is because his people distracted him with invading Venezuela, then threatening Greenland, then Iran, now Cuba, or maybe still Iran.
Every time I see this guy, he is always spewing bullshit. Just block and move on.
Can’t you just link it or tell me what he said so i can search it, it had to take longer than 3 seconds to type that.
I feel finding an article on tanks at Canada’s border would be easier to find if it was true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_expansionism_under_Donald_Trump#Canada
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What’s wrong with you? There’s active‑duty military personnel deployed in Canada, yet you seem to ignore that the United States, arguably the most heavily armed and volatile nation on the planet, shares a border with Canada. I don’t care that you haven’t shown up at my door with a loaded gun and threatened me personally. The letters you sent, the posts you made, and the fact that my neighbor is armed to the teeth are already more than enough to make me feel unsafe. It’s enough to imagine our entire apartment building turning into a “crater of doom” without you even leaving your unit. That’s how fucking armed you are.
Sorry what is it you’re wanting to do to protect us from these nukes?
Hey asshole, if you want to have a conversation, pull your head out of your fucking ass, at least a little! But the way you are engaging is a draining hardship.
it had to take longer than 3 seconds to type that.
And yet, here you are, like Oliver Twist, hat in hand asking “please sir, may i have a link?”
I can’t find anything when I searched.
X to doubt
You’re sealioning and you fucking know it. Nobody’s buying your bullshit.
OK. I assume given the downvotes and responses with no citation its emotionally driven and people are upset about tariffs.
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I feel a certain kind of way towards Canadians who are willing to take foreign money to promote separatist views that would be used to extract from them. I feel a certain kind of way towards Canadians who would work with our enemies against us and sowe pointless division between us
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I thought it was known that a lot of NHL players vote for and support Republicans.
Mostly a league made up of wealthy white folk from upper-middleclass upper class families that tend to be conservative. Sometimes you hear of an outlier (Bobby Ryan for example). But you have to be wealthy to afford to play the sport.
I love hockey, dont get me wrong. But demographics are demographics.
The obvious solution would be to not let American players in the league if this was a problem.
Like that traitor Gretzky.
That’s wild to hear. I always thought of hockey as a sport of diplomacy. It’s heart breaking to hear the ethical hockey players are choosing a more aggressive approach to politics. The “might makes right” viewpoint.
It you are playing hockey the goal is finding a solution not just hurting people until you win.
Very disappointing.
Satire.
Hockey is globally perceived as the winter white privilege sport. Tennis is the summer counterpart though I’d argue tennis is less homogenous.
Do Russians care about white privilege?
Which is weird because tennis has one of the lowest entry costs of any sport, provided your municipality provides public nets.
It’s the only sport I know of where the balls expire. Tennis lessons for my son was kinda expensive. Also he hated it after like three days lol
All balls expire.
If I need answers on boobies I’ll ask you. We are talking about balls here. You are out of your element!
You can play with year old balls just fine, they’re just less bouncy. Which is actually what i recommend for new players since they tend to get a bit more control that way. I never had lessons. Just ran around for fun.
I forgot I wrote that and just saw “you can play with year old balls” in my notifications. lol.
I always thought of hockey as a sport of diplomacy.
I hope this is a joke
The comment ends with saying it’s satire.
Hockey is the sport of peace, they are all intellectuals and their opinions on politics should always be considered relevant. /s
They do have more teeth than someone from Texas… fair point.
Steve Dangle is a real one
