The most hyperbolic NYT piece ever

After all, nothing is more demoralizing and damaging to a nation than being beaten at your national sport. Even having been dragged into an 8 year long war, where your country men are losing life and limb, with no end in sight, pales by comparison!

For Canada, anything other than victory after Sunday’s humiliating 5-3 defeat by the United States would have been a catastrophe that scarred the nation’s psyche.

Thank you NYT, for your startling clarity and insight. Your vivid description of what is vital to the collective Canadian subconscious.