If former Olympic gold medalist Mike Eruzione were still playing hockey, he might have found himself in one of those fights between Team USA and Team Canada during their 4 Nations Face-Off game on Saturday in Montreal.
Three fights occurred in nine seconds at the start of the game between the longtime rivals, which occurred shortly after many in the Bell Centre crowd booed “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Of course, the fights didn’t occur as a result of the booing — Team USA’s Matthew Tkachuk, who took part in the first fight, admitted they were planned by himself, his brother Brady and J.T. Miller well before the game.
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But, at the very least, the players have since said that the boos got their juices flowing — and it did the same for Eruzione.
“I was very disappointed in that situation. It’s a hockey game, it has no political ramifications,” Eruzione said on …