Fans at WWE Elimination Chamber in Toronto Booed “The Star-Spangled Banner” ahead of the event on Saturday night.
American singer Elizabeth Irving performed the American national anthem when a choir of boos was raining down. Irving also sings National Anthem in front of Vancouver Canucks and Vancouver Whitecaps games.
Star Sports Commenter Pat McAfee paralyzed loudly the Canadian fans for booing and the country as a whole in response to the peacock’s broadcast.
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“It sucks that it is in the horrible country of Canada that lived our national anthem to start all this thing,” McAfee cried on the broadcast table.
Toronto’s booing of the anthem comes a week after hockey fans from both countries lived each other’s hymns.
Under the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-off exhibition tournament from 12-20. February fans lived in Canada the US national anthem while fans in the United States lived the Canadian national anthem ahead of several games.
It started February 13, when Canadian fans in Montreal lived the US national anthem after President Donald Trump’s recent threats of imposing Canada duty rates, while also suggesting the country to become the 51 of America.
Booing got a flurry of fighting between Canadian and American players at the first meeting of the tournament between the two teams 15 February. US won that game 3-1.
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The Canadian national anthem was then booed in TD Garden in Boston before a 4 Nations game between Canada and Finland.
The US and Canada then met in the last 20th of February, and US fans in Boston again booed the Canadian national anthem, albeit with a lighter tone. Canada won the game in overtime, 3-2.
Since then, hostile rhetoric between the two countries, including in sports, has only escalated.
Canadian men’s football coach Jesse Marsch blasted Trump for his “51st State” remarks and called them “insulting” Wednesday.
During the Concacaf Nations League Media Day on Wednesday, Marsch did not hold back his opinion of Trump’s comments and said he was “ashamed” of how Canada was offended by the president.
“If I have a message to our president, it is dismissed the ridiculous rhetoric that Canada is the 51st state,” said Marsch. “As an American, I’m ashamed of arrogance and ignoring, we’ve shown one of our historically oldest, strongest and most loyal allies. But one thing is definitely when I look forward to one month from now, this will burn our team. The mentality we have, we will have to play for our country.”
NHL Legend Wayne Gretzky has also been criticized by colleagues Canadians for his apparent support from Trump.
Trump recently said he asked Gretzky to become the next “Governor of Canada” after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would resign.
But after Gretzky expressed support to “Canada, who remains a separate country, rather than becoming a loved and beautiful 51st state,” Trump declared Gretzky a “Free Agent.”
It got the hockey legend Bobby Orr, a colleague Canadier, to write in Toronto Sun That he was disappointed to read criticism about Gretzky, someone he considers one of the “greatest Canadians ever.”
“How unclear can people be when someone who has given so much time and effort to Canadian hockey is treated in such a way,” Orr wrote. “Listen, we all have our personal convictions as they relate to things like religion and politics. Wayne respects your right to such beliefs – why can’t you respect his?”
Janet Gretzky, Wayne’s wife, read Orr’s pillar, and she responded to social media.
“Thank you Mr. Bobby Orr. Your words mean the world to Wayne and his family, I have never met anyone who is more proud to be Canadian, and it has broken his heart to read and see the average comments. He would do something to make Canadians proud with his love for hockey and his country,” Janet wrote in an Instagram post where she shared Orr’s column.
Trump accepted February 3 to set customs duties for 30 days, which means they are expected to be imposed in early March. The tariffs imposed on Canada by Trump are a response to drug trafficking at the US-Canadian border.