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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau summed up in one sentence addressed to Donald Trump the feeling of all Canadians after the victory on Thursday of the national ice hockey team over the United States by 2-3: "You can't take away our country or our sport".
The match, the final of the 4 Nations tournament between Canada, the USA, Finland and Sweden, had become much more than an ice hockey match due to the continuous threats of annexation that the US president, Donald Trump, has been making since the end of 2024.
For Trump, the game was another opportunity to humiliate his northern neighbor. For Canadians, it was the perfect scenario to silence the US president. Before the game, Trump showed his style. Although he did not go to Boston, where the final was played, despite the fact that the coach of the US team asked him to attend, the Republican leader called his players to encourage them.
On his social network, Truth Social, the politician took the opportunity to continue his threats to Canada and belittled Trudeau. "This morning I will call our GREAT American ice hockey team to spur them on to victory tonight against Canada, which with MUCH LOWER TAXES AND GREATER SECURITY, someday, perhaps soon, will become our beloved and very important 51st state."
With much lower taxes and greater security, perhaps it will soon become our beloved and very important 51st state
Trump added that he would watch the game on television and invited "Governor Trudeau" to watch it together. Perhaps, if he had gone to Boston, Trump would have seen a fan at the gates of the TD Garden stadium where the game was held, with a banner welcoming the US as Canada's 11th province.
For his part, Trudeau preferred to remain silent and not respond to Trump. But as soon as the game ended with Canada's overtime victory, the Canadian leader took to social media to leave his message to Trump: "You can't take our country or our sport away from us."
This time, it was Trump who remained silent. More than an hour after the end of the game, the former president of the United States still did not make any public comment or on his social networks about the defeat.
Kreviazuk changes Canadian anthem lyrics
Trudeau's message was not the only one of the night. Canadian artist Chantal Kreviazuk, who sang the Canadian national anthem, O Canada, before the game at Boston's TD Garden, decided to change the lyrics in response to Trump's annexation threats.
Kreviazuk, who also accented the lyrics of the anthem in those ages where the word "freedom" appears amid boos from some American fans, changed a phrase to emphasize that only Canadians have control of the country.
And without a doubt, the most devastating message came from the Canadian players, who in a tough but fair game, played at a breakneck pace, went 1-0 up in the first period, regrouped when the United States went 2-1 up in the second period and, after tying the game, forced overtime.
It was in overtime when Canadian goalkeeper Jordan Binnington became the hero of the game by stopping four clear goal-scoring chances from the Americans, which gave his teammate Connor McDavid the opportunity to score the golden goal and silence the American ers at TD Garden.