{"id":33696,"date":"2025-02-18T21:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/trump-would-boost-proud-us-ice-hockey-team-at-canada-game-says-gm\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T21:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:46:52","slug":"trump-would-boost-proud-us-ice-hockey-team-at-canada-game-says-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/trump-would-boost-proud-us-ice-hockey-team-at-canada-game-says-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump would boost \u2018proud\u2019 US ice hockey team at Canada game, says GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>North American rivals play each other on Thursday<\/li>\n<li>Build-up has been marked by political tension<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/usa-ice-hockey-team\">US men\u2019s ice hockey team<\/a> said he would welcome a visit from Donald Trump to the 4 Nations Face-Off final between the United States and Canada on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Guerin, who played 18 years in the NHL, said on Fox News that Trump\u2019s presence would give a boost to the rivalry between the North American hockey powers. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/16\/canada-patriotism-surges-trump-comments\">credited Trump\u2019s tariff threats<\/a> and talk of making Canada the 51st US state for raising the intensity in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/15\/usa-canada-4-nations-face-off-fights-anthem-booed\">fight-filled matchup<\/a> in the preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/18\/canada-usa-hockey-4-nations-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North American rivals play each other on Thursday Build-up has been marked by political tension The general manager of the US men\u2019s ice hockey team said he would welcome a visit from Donald Trump to the 4 Nations Face-Off final between the United States and Canada on Thursday night. Bill Guerin, who played 18 years &#8230; <a title=\"Trump would boost \u2018proud\u2019 US ice hockey team at Canada game, says GM\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/trump-would-boost-proud-us-ice-hockey-team-at-canada-game-says-gm\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump would boost \u2018proud\u2019 US ice hockey team at Canada game, says GM\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}