Canadian hockey fans conflicted over traveling to U.S. to see their teams in NHL playoffs

APNews - 21/04
Canada saw five of its seven NHL teams advance to the playoffs this season. Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Edmonton are all in the first round, with Toronto and Ottawa playing each other in the best-of-seven series.

TORONTO (AP) — Jack Gurevitch is a Montreal Canadiens superfan and a proud Canadian who says he is upset by President Donald Trump’s tariff plans and threats to annex Canada. Still, he says he won’t let the political situation influence whether he travels to U.S. cities to support his team in the playoffs.

Not everyone in his family agrees.

“In anticipation of this call, I shared with my sister my opinion, and she went, ‘Absolutely not. Do not go. Do not go into the United States during this time. It’s not being patriotic. It’s not being a good Canadian,’” Gurevitch told the Canadian Press. “I just kind of disagree with her.”

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