IThe ESPN Sports-Talk program from the NA Clip Get up that viral last week, former National Hockey League player PK Subban weighed over the difference between NHL hockey culture and culture in NBA. Typically, comparing both – the smallest in the Big Four Pro Sports League of North America – is a game of numbers: revenue, viewer, salary, that kind of thing. But in the last 10 days, the passion has emerged as a new major discrimination. “You can step on an NBA floor and go through movements,” Subban said on ESPN. “You can’t do this in hockey – you can’t. Like, our sports culture, you have to play it with passion. You have to be ready to fight. You have to be ready to leave it on ice. This is the fan Are investing
The investment has recently paid 4 nations face-off tournaments, which was wrapped in Boston on Thursday night. The thrilling finals between Canada and the US were last Saturday’s Marqui Round-Robin Clash, a competition marked by three quarrels in the first nine seconds. The rest of the game was very good, also, ended with an American win. On Thursday, the tables changed. It was Canada that scored earlier – again – and final. Canada won the game 3–2, when the US left the best player Connor McDwid on the planet, opening into the slot at a sudden death time. He made no mistake.
The Sabban was already on ESPN, one of the reasons for that first Canada-US game. Its intensity seemed to surprise Americans for a long time with rivalry, or unfamiliar with hockey. Indeed, Subban’s mention of NBA was not an accident. This was the second reason that he was on the show. Basketball fans could not help, but keeping in mind the difference of how much NBA players showed how much interest in the league’s All Star Game, which the NHLers were competing in their mid-season showcase. But then, the NBA also did not have Donald Trump in the mixture. Trump’s timely geopolitical intervention-affected tariffs and the existence of the counter-tariff and the existence of the border and their rapidly blunt danger-were much more unexpected and meaningful wonder than any gimmick, even That the clever NBA marketing whies dreamed of all-star weekends for this.
Earlier this week, General Manager of USA Hockey (and former NHLer) Bill Guerin told Fox News that the team would like it “if President Trump was in appearance”. Trump refused, but in a post on truth social on Thursday morning, he said that he planned to call the US hockey team “tonight to lead them to victory against Canada, which reduced taxes and many Someday with strong security, maybe our nurtured, and very important, fifty first state ”. Did you understand that it all works very well for Trump. The world cups-vicious, 2002 Olympic gold medal, Cathartic; But had to focus afresh, not to bridge it but to deepen it.
But you can see why it worked. The foundation of this hockey rivalry is always inherent in some more, something has been felt but it remains unseen. Like most other sports rivals, only one fraction of its foundation is located directly under the game, with deep burial in the rest of the history – or, in this case, in the snow. Canada V USA is actually about a naturally unbalanced relationship that has seen themselves to protect themselves in all types of speaking of both partners for two centuries. Through all this, hockey has been one of its some of its permanent symbols of regional domination – evidence that it can introduce the world at regular intervals, to prove that it is still completely, cultural Or politically, not done by his neighbor (or neighbor). “I think we are playing for the flag, not for cameras,” Team Canada Forward Brandon Hagel said this week. “This is a part of Canada that we have.”
Nevertheless, at the same time, hockey is one of the most effective devices of Canada’s soft power. To say that the X-Factor was talking about the Sabban-talking that after seeing 4 nations the most agrees that other North American sports agree the most after disappearance of cultures-Canadians are the most. But it would not be wrong to suggest that there may be a shortage of all those other leagues, Canadian-Ni. Tening and drive to compete against all obstacles – to fight on literally fighting. This thing that is near hockey and others cannot come from here only along with this northern region. Trump can try to co-hold hockey in America’s oblique vision, but the reality is that no matter where you are from, when you step on ice, something about you will always be Canadian about you. .
