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Who else has very little interest in the Four Nations tournament?

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Friedman brought up a good point on his 32 Thoughts podcast re: Booing national anthems being a thing now. America plays twice in Montreal for the tournament (at least in the regular round).

How much is Gary going to love the optics of Canadian fans booing the U.S. anthem during his pet tournament? Of course, there still is some time and things will likely cool down a little over the next week or so, but this is Montreal (and Boston) fans - both can be very passionate and very loud and I doubt either will resist the temptation to stir the pot (for which I am envious btw).
 
I wasn't interested, but I'm trying to convince myself to care, because it's the closest I'm going to get to having a rooting interest in a team that might win something for quite some time.
 
kevsh said:
Friedman brought up a good point on his 32 Thoughts podcast re: Booing national anthems being a thing now. America plays twice in Montreal for the tournament (at least in the regular round).

How much is Gary going to love the optics of Canadian fans booing the U.S. anthem during his pet tournament? Of course, there still is some time and things will likely cool down a little over the next week or so, but this is Montreal (and Boston) fans - both can be very passionate and very loud and I doubt either will resist the temptation to stir the pot (for which I am envious btw).
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I'm pretty sure Gary has convinced himself that boos are a sign of adoration by this point in his life.
 
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The animus at the heart of the booing doesn't make me more interested in this tournament, but rather less. I watch the NHL because it's more or less my only option for pro hockey, but the league is ultimately a US-based league with Canadian outposts, and along with my concerted effort to buy fewer US products (to the extent possible) I'll be consuming little of this NHL-only spectacle as a result.

I will normally watch anything where a Canadian uniform is being worn, even if I don't follow that sport. But this is a sham of a tournament, intended to be an exhibition primarily to satisfy a US audience, and I have only the vaguest notion of its existence. Dunno when it starts, or where all the games are being played. I hear Sidney Crosby is Canada's captain, but not much more than that.

I genuinely don't begrudge anyone who wants to watch this; to each their own. But not me.
 
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Lots of people hating rn and claiming they won’t watch, but if the games are great and Canada and US are in the final, every one of those people will be tuning in.

Kind of like all the people who were too cool for the SC final last year and claimed they’d be watching the Toronto Blue jays or mowing their lawn instead
 
It’s better than the all star game? I guess. But no. I would struggle to care if Russia was involved, since they’re not I definitely do not care.
 
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Nucks2001 said:
No clue what that guy is talking about. A game with Marchand, Konecny, Bennett, and the Tkachuks is bound to get scrappy and to think Canada was considering taking Wilson too.
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Hoping it's not all talk as I'd like to see things get chippy but no long term injuries happening.
 
Not really interested. I don´t even know the full tournament format. But I remember reading that atleast the Finland-Sweden comes in eurofriendly time so it is possible that I watch that.

Looking at the problems of gathering 6 NHL regular defenseman to this it is fair to say that Finland barely qualified for it. I guess it is good exhibition for the olympics. Depending on how seriously teams will take this. How much there is just avoiding injuries.

As someone said quite many Finns will decide after tournament... depending on success how serious this tournament was. :laugh: Even though the risk is quite low it would partly be shame if this would be the "best vs. best" tournament that Finland would won.
 
Zero percent excited. Tournament isnt even a tournament, it has 4 teams, and Mike Sullivan is our coach.

No thanks.
 
kevsh said:
Friedman brought up a good point on his 32 Thoughts podcast re: Booing national anthems being a thing now. America plays twice in Montreal for the tournament (at least in the regular round).

How much is Gary going to love the optics of Canadian fans booing the U.S. anthem during his pet tournament? Of course, there still is some time and things will likely cool down a little over the next week or so, but this is Montreal (and Boston) fans - both can be very passionate and very loud and I doubt either will resist the temptation to stir the pot (for which I am envious btw).
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Its Quebec though, most of the people there hate Canada too lol
 
Old Man Jags said:
Have you been living under a rock since 2022?


Didn’t see this post when I posted the exact same a minute ago. Apologies for the duplication.
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No worries. More people needs to call out these peeps. Reading some of these “Not at all”-answers are very reminiscent to how bots on X are writing about the same topic.
 
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