Trump can try to co-opt hockey. But Thursday showed that wherever where you\u2019re from, when you step onto the ice, something about you will always be Canadian<\/p>\n
In a clip from ESPN sports-talk program Get Up that went viral last week, former National Hockey League player PK Subban weighed in<\/a> on the differences between NHL hockey culture and the culture in the NBA. Usually, comparing the two \u2013 the smallest of North America\u2019s big four pro sports leagues \u2013 is a game of numbers: revenue, viewers, salaries, that kind of thing. But over the past 10 days, passion has emerged as a new key differentiator. \u201cYou can step onto an NBA floor and go through the motions,\u201d Subban said on ESPN. \u201cYou can\u2019t do that in hockey \u2013 you can\u2019t. Like, the culture of our sport, you have to play it with passion. You have to be willing to fight. You have to be willing to leave it on the ice. That\u2019s what fans are investing in.\u201d<\/p>\n That investment has paid off most recently with the 4 Nations Face-off tournament, which wrapped up on Thursday night in Boston. The thrilling final between Canada and the US was a rematch of last Saturday\u2019s marquee round-robin clash, a contest marked by three fights in the opening nine seconds<\/a>. The rest of the game was pretty good, too, ending with a US win. On Thursday, the tables turned. It was Canada that scored first \u2013 again \u2013 and last. Canada won the game narrowly 3-2<\/a>, after the US left Connor McDavid, the best player on the planet, open in the slot in sudden-death overtime. He made no mistake.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump can try to co-opt hockey. But Thursday showed that wherever where you\u2019re from, when you step onto the ice, something about you will always be Canadian Canada beat US 3-2 on McDavid\u2019s winner in overtime Canadian anthem singer alters lyric in Trump protest In pictures: Canada top US amid geopolitical tensions In a clip … 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-33963","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\/33963","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=33963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}