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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Pat Forde

Political Tension Makes U.S. vs. Canada Hockey Rivalry Even Hotter at Olympics

In a New York Times opinion piece in August, Canadian writer Stephen Marche wrote: “Canada is living through an era of acute, sustained, profound and abiding rage. The source is President Trump; the object is the United States.” The month before, he launched an eight-part podcast series on Canada’s freshly fraught relationship with what had been its forever friendly neighbor, the United States. The name of the podcast series: Gloves Off.

Hockey term. Of course.

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