Sean McIndoo

perceive that to be a dig at the American women's team, or at least the suggestion that they are somehow lesser than the men.

What happens is they take a clip of a player named Brady Kachuk, who is a player on Team USA.

He's a good player, one of their better ones.

When Brady Kachuk is not playing for Team USA, his day job is he is the captain in the NHL of the Ottawa Senators.

And if you check your maps, Ottawa is not in the United States.

Ottawa is in Canada.

And that introduces this whole other element where up here in Canada, I will put it mildly to say Donald Trump is an extraordinarily unpopular figure.

Just to give you a sense of how this plays up here, what they had put out there was this video in which they had taken footage of Brady Kachuk in the aftermath with his gold medal and looking happy and excited and had digitally altered it

to make it appear that he was saying very insulting things about Canada.

Now, he seemed annoyed that the video had been put out.

He didn't, you know, completely disown it or attack it.

He sort of tried to thread that needle in that hockey player way of wanting this issue to go away.

But again, there were a lot of folks who would say, okay, Brady, you didn't say any of that.

You didn't deserve to have the White House do that to you.

But this is the risk that you run.

when you allow yourself to become part of this political story, when you allow yourself to become, as some people would describe it, a political prop.

Absolutely.

I mean, this is hockey's breakthrough moment as far as pop culture in the United States.

And yet, it just kind of all had this shadow over it.

Now, players who typically don't get asked about politics have to be asked questions.