The Americas | A puck in the teeth

Canada’s best ice-hockey players cannot go to the Olympics

The National Hockey League may be betting on anti-China sentiment

The icemen stayeth

ICE HOCKEY matters in Canada. It is the official winter sport and national pastime. Canada has won more Olympic medals for it than any other country. Fully half of Canadians tuned in to watch their team win gold in the men’s ice hockey final at the winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, making it the most-watched broadcast television programme in the country’s history.

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